Forestry

College of Forestry

The College of Forestry at Oregon State University is over 100 years old and today consists of three academic departments:

Research programs are extensive and collaborative.

Featured collections and resources at Oregon State

College of Forestry:

HJ Andrews Experimental Forest

OSU Libraries

 

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Consult the http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/ for recent theses and dissertations in all fields and for the College of Forestry see these collections on the OSU institutional repository, the ScholarsArchive@OSU:

Find books using the library catalog:

Use the OSU Libraries (OSUL) catalog to find books in OSU Libraries.

Try your search to the Summit Libraries catalog if you can't find what you need at OSUL collection.

Need more information, follow the link to "read more" below.

 

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Browse for books by call numbers in Forestry:

The library collection is arranged by call numbers which allow browsing by subject -- so if you find a book of interest, very likely the books on either side will be on the same subject.  Most of the Valley Library's forestry collection is located on the 1st floor in the SD's. 

For call numbers related to forestry use the "read more link" below:

 

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Finding articles

Search across selected databases in Forestry.


**Search results open in a new window**

Searches Ebsco version of Academic Search Premier, Agricola, and Biosis as well as Environmental Science and Pollution Management.  For technical reasons, the tool CANNOT currently include TreeSearch nor the Forest Science Database .

Browsing E-Journals

If you would like to browse forestry related e-journals, these links will take you to lists of journals related to the broad subjects listed below. Time coverage varies and currently more is in paper than electronically. For a more comprehensive search on a narrower topic, be sure to use the databases first. 

Accessing Journals

To determine if the library owns the journals you need, check:

*Verify that the dates of coverage or the print holdings include the volume/issue you need.

 

If you are looking for older/classics in the literature try the database, JSTOR.

Interlibrary Loan

Use interlibrary loan to request articles the OSU Libraries do not have in their print or electronic collections

Data Sources Online

FAO Forestry Statistics

State Forestry Statistics

(USFS) Forest Inventory and Analysis

(USFS) Geodata Clearinghouse

Wildland Fire Statistics

Encyclopedia and Handbooks

Forestry Handbook Published 1984. A 1335 page resource of tables, figures and explainations for the working forester. Ref: SD 373 .F58

Natural Vegetation of Oregon and Washington by J.F. Franklin and C.T. Dyrness, 1973 [reprint 1988]. A thorough treatment of forest and range ecology for our region of the U.S. Ref: QK 182 .F7 19

Wood Handbook: Wood as an Engineering Material USDA Agric. Handbook no.72, 1987. An extensive handbook of information about the physical and mechanical aspects of wood and wood products. Ref: S 21 .A42 no.72

Encyclopedia of American Forest and Conservation History Contains a variety of articles from forest entomology to hardwood floor, and from Smokey the Bear to the Pacific Coast lumber industry. Be sure to use the index in the second volume. Ref. SD 143 .E53 2 volumes, 1983.

Statistical Sources in Print

Statistical Yearbook of the Western Lumber Industry/Western Wood Products AssociationThis publication is thin so look carefully on the shelf. A digest of statistical information on the forest industry for 12 western states. Ref: HD 9754 .W48

Production, Prices, Employment, and Trade in Northwest Forest Industries This quarterly publication is part of the PNW-Resource Bulletinseries of the Forest Service. You must dig through the other bulletins in the series to find these gems. SD 144 .A13 A38

Random Lengths Yearbook of Forest Products Summarizes monthly and annual price averages of more than 180 key items of lumber, plywood, veneer, etc. Ref: HD 9752 .R3

Yearbook of Forest Products An FAO compendium of statistics on world forestry. Usually 3-4 years behind with its data. Ref: SD 131 .F62

Style Guides

Scientific style and format: the CSE manual for authors, editors and publishers (formerly the CBE style guide)

Here are two helpful online guides to CSE format:

 

What's new on this list

Bonnie's Forestry Tags

Most of these sites relate to  forestry in the United States, so US has not been added as a tag though country name tags have been added for other regions.    This is a listing in process.  So feel free to make recommendations to me. 

FAO Forestry Videos

Watch a short video from the Food and Agriculture Organization on forests and climate change. Click here for more videos from FAO Forestry or go to http://www.fao.org/forestry/52980/en/  such as A Convenient Truth (Parts 1 and 2) produced by FAO of the United Nations and the Forestry Commission of the United Kingdom (description and links below:

"Forests store more carbon than all the worlds remaining oil stocks. Continuing deforestation and forest degradation account for almost one-fifth of the worlds greenhouse gas emissions more than the entire global transport sector. The video explains how society can combat climate change by conserving and managing existing forests, by tackling causes of deforestation and by planting new forests. It stresses the use of wood as a renewable energy source and as a raw material, pointing out that wood products store carbon for their entire lifetime, until they decay or are burned. A section on adaptation notes how the worlds changing climate will affect the health and composition of forests and stresses the importance of adapting and planning ahead for the changes."

Introduction

The Forest Service has Research Stations throughout the U.S. The full names of these stations and their abbreviations are listed at the end of this bulletin. Some earlier Stations are now closed, or have merged with other stations. Links to the U. S. Forest Service Research Units sites on the WWW are shown at the end of this guide.

Each station issues its own reports series. These reports are received through the Library's Government Documents Office and have a Superintendent of Documents "SuDocs" number beginning A13 with initials for the Research Station (PNW, RMRS, SRS, etc.) and for the report series (GTR for General Technical Reports, etc.). In order to have the bulk of this material housed with the Forestry collection, The Library has given each of these series a Library of Congress call number beginning with "SD."

For each of these report series, call numbers on volumes published prior to 1985 indicate "COMPACT." This refers to a LOCATION in The Valley Library. All volumes labeled "COMPACT" are publicly accessible in the moveable/compact shelving on the north side of the First Floor.

Some of these reports are only available to the Library on microfiche and are found in the microforms area on the third floor of the Library using the call numbers given below. With the advent of the WWW as a medium for distribution, many series are now available electronically as PDF files. In OSU Libraries' Online Catalog, you will find electronic titles noted as "Internet Resources" with a link to "connect to this file online."

If you are given a title, without a series number, try searching it directly in OSU Libraries' Online Catalog, for more recent material you will likely find the call number directly. However, if this fails and you know the series and number, select journals and do a keyword search on the abbreviation for the station (SRS, etc.). This will give you a list of the series published by that station. If in doubt, ask for help at the Reference Desk (TEL: 541-737-7295)

USFS Series in the Library

The Library has most of the report series issued by the U.S Forest Service, but they can be a little tricky to find.  Most are in "series" (e.g. PNW-GTR-456 = Pacific Northwest General Technical Report Number 456).  Each series title has been given a call number as shown below.  If the item you need is from before 1990, it will be in the compact shelving on the first floor.

Agriculture Handbook

Bulletin

Forestry Note

General Technical Report

Miscellaneous Publication

Occasional Paper

Proceedings

Report

Research Note

Research Paper

Resource Bulletin

Resource Report

Station Note

Station Paper

Technical Note

Technical Paper

TreeSearch

Today the Forest Service is making available many of its published research findings via the Web. This includes not only the various series listed below, but also articles in journals (if the authors are employed by the Forest Service). When you are looking for a reference and you suspect the author is a Forest Service employee, you can see if it is available free online by searching their database, TreeSearch at: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/. The database also includes online access to many publications we have in print in the series listed below. However, the file sizes may be large and locating the paper copy may be more cost effective. The Library holds a far bigger retrospective collection of these publications than is available online at present.

USFS Websites

Listed below are the current websites for research stations within the USFS.  Research stations which have closed or merged with other regions are annotated with " * " and no link is provided.