Oregon State University

OSU’s College of Forestry

Oregon State University (OSU) is a land-grant institution that has been educating forestry professionals for a century. OSU’s College of Forestry has earned a reputation as a world-class center of teaching and learning about forests and related resources. The College of Forestry offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in three departments: Forest Engineering, Resources & Management; Forest Ecosystems & Society; and Wood Science and Engineering. The College also jointly offers several interdisciplinary programs. OSU’s forestry program operates about 14,000 acres of College Forests, most of it within minutes of campus. Within the College, two faculty specialize in wildlife: Drs. Matt Betts and Jim Rivers. The mission of the College of Forestry is to educate and engage the next generation of scholars, practitioners, and users of the world’s forest resources, to conduct distinctive problem-solving and fundamental research on the nature and use of forests and related resources, and to share discoveries and knowledge
with others.

Program in Forest Ecosystem Health and Forest Policy Analysis

OSU is pleased to announce the Program in Forest Ecosystem Health and Forest Policy Analysis, which was created in 2016 with the support of four funding partners, including the Boone and Crockett Club. The focus of the program will be on maintaining and restoring healthy forest ecosystems through active forest management on both public and private forests. Specific program priority areas include: (1) developing integrated forest health assessment methods and tools; (2) determining ecological, social and economic impacts of active restoration management strategies; (3) evaluating active management methods and their impact on water quality, fish and wildlife; and (4) providing clear, thoughtful and unbiased analysis of conservation policy issues of national concern. The Program will accomplish these objectives through integrated teaching, research, policy analysis and outreach programs, intended to develop information and technologies useful in addressing economic, social and ecological aspects of forest ecosystem health and related wildlife issues and concerns.

OSU Boone and Crockett Fellow

Dr. Sara Galbraith began a postdoctoral fellowship at Oregon State in April 2016, under the direction of Jim Rivers in the College of Forestry. Sara earned a B.A. in biology from St. Olaf College and a Ph.D. in entomology from the University of Idaho and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE) in Costa Rica. Her research is focused on understanding variables that impact native and managed bee populations worldwide. Animal pollinators are critical to the healthy functioning of terrestrial ecosystems because their pollination services support the foundation of plant and animal populations. As a doctoral student, Sara studied the impact of land use change on native and managed bees in northwestern Costa Rica as an NSF IGERT and USAID Borlaug fellow. Her current work at OSU examines the impact of wildfire intensity and post-fire management on native bees and pollination services in Oregon. In addition to being the fieldwork leader, she is co-leading the organization of a regional pollinator workshop in 2017, and recently presented preliminary findings at the OSU Postdoc Research Symposium where she won first place in a university-wide research presentation competition.