it's about forests - it's about quality of life - it's about Oregon

At the Crossroads

Sustaining Oregon's Forests in a Rapidly Changing World

Conference and Workshop - November 6-7, 2007
Oregon State University - CH2M Hill Alumni Center
Corvallis, Oregon

Further Readings

Listed here are selected readings to help frame and provide additional background and context for some of the issues that will be discussed at the conference.

This reading list was assembled by conference organizers. It is a sample and is not meant to be definitive or reflect a particular point of view. Additional readings may be posted prior to the conference.

All readings are in PDF file format.

Land Use Change, Forestland Conversion

Alig, R. and A. Plantinga. 2004. Future forestland area: Impacts from population growth and other factors that affect land values. Journal of Forestry

Bliss, J. 2003. Sustaining Family Forests in Rural Landscapes: Rationale, Challenges, and an Illustration from Oregon, USA.

Donegan, Matthew. 2007. Preserving Oregon’s Working Forests: A Landowner’s Perspective on Sustainability. Forest Capital Partners, LLC. Submitted to the Oregon Task Force on Land Use Planning. August.

Kline, J. 2005. Our National Concern about Forestland Development. Timber West

Lettman, G. et al. 2002. Forests, Farms and People: Land Use Change in WESTERN Oregon.

Lettman, G. et al. 2004. Forests, Farms and People: Land Use Change in EASTERN Oregon.

Gordon, S. 2007. Forestland conversion in Washington state. The News Tribune (Tacoma)

Nelson, P. 2005. Examining Washington’s working forest stakeholders. MS Thesis, U of W College of Forest Resources

Kline, J. and R. Alig. 2005. Forestland development and private forestry with examples from Oregon (USA). Forest Policy and Economics

Kline, J., R. Alig and B. Garber-Yonts. 2004. Forestland social values and open space preservation. Journal of Forestry

Stein, S. et al. 2005. Forests at the edge: Housing development on America’s private forests. USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station.

Kline, J. 2006. Keeping land in forest. Chapter in Forests, carbon and climate change: a synthesis of science findings. Oregon Forest Resources Institute.

Kline, J. and D. Azuma. 2007. Evaluating forest land development effects on private forestry in eastern Oregon. USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station.

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Forest Management and Policy

Western Governors’ Association. 2007. Achieving Sustainable Forests. Western Governors' Association Policy Resolution 07-13.

Adams, D.M. and G.S Latta. 2005. Costs and regional impacts of restoration thinning programs on the national forests in eastern Oregon. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35.

Hibbard, M. and Madsen, J. 2003. Environmental Resistance to Place-Based Collaboration in the U.S.West. Society and Natural Resources 16.

Myers, T. 2007. Everett's green building law means using local timber.

McGann, C. 2007. 'Green' allies see environmental value in logging. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Oregon Board of Forestry. 2003. Forestry program for Oregon. (Full Version)

Oregon Board of Forestry. 2003. Forestry program for Oregon. (2-page Pocket Version)

Sedell, J. et al. 2000. Water and the US Forest Service. USDA Forest Service Washington Office.

Brown, R. 2000. Thinning, fire and forest restoration: A science-based approach for national forests in the interior northwest. Defenders of Wildlife.

Preusch, M. 2005. Rare alliance favors thinning of forests. Oregonian.

Connelly, J. 2007. Corner of state sets pace to save forests. Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Franklin, J. and J. Agee. 2003. Forging a Science-Based National Forest Fire Policy. Issues in Science and Technology.

Franklin, J. and N. Johnson. 2004. Forests face new threat: Global market changes. Issues in Science and Technology.

U.S. Forest Service and National Association of State Foresters. 2007. Redesigning State and Private Forestry. Issue 2. June.

NAUFRP. Undated. Forests for a Richer Future: A Vision for America’s Forests for the 21st Century. National Association of University Forest Resources Programs.

Heilprin, John. 2007. Forest proposal would tap trees as energy source. The Register Guard. September 8.

Hibbard, Michael and Madsen, Jeremy. 2003. Environmental Resistance to Place-Based Collaboration in the U.S. West, Society & Natural Resources, Volume 16:8, 703 - 718.

Deal, R. and S. White (eds) Understanding Key Issues of Sustainable Wood Production in the Pacific Northwest. USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station. PNW-GTR-626.

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Forest Product and Ecosystem Service Markets

Adams, D. et al. 2002. Timber harvest projections for private land in western Oregon. OSU College of Forestry, Forest Research Laboratory, Research Contribution 37.

Adams, D. and G. Latta. 2003. Private timber harvest in eastern Oregon. OSU College of Forestry, Forest Research Laboratory, Research Contribution 42.

Haynes, R. et al. 2007a. 2005 RPA timber assessment update. PNW-GTR-699. US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, PNW Research Station. (Timber market and price projections.)

Haynes, R. et al. 2007b. 2005 RPA timber assessment update. PNW-GTR-699. US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service, PNW Research Station. (Alternative views of the future.)

LaRocco, G. and S. Vickerman. 2007. An Oregon ecosystem marketplace. Oregon Insider.

Rivera, D. 2007. Eco-friendly timber makes more green. Oregonian

Gebert, K. at al. 2002. Utilization of Oregon’s timber harvest and associated direct economic effects, 1998. USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station.

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Climate Change, Carbon Budgets, Etc.

Im, E., D.M. Adams and G.S. Latta. 2007. Potential impacts of carbon taxes on carbon flux in western Oregon private forests. Forest Policy and Economics 9(8): 1006-1017.

Joyce, L. et al. 2006. Bringing climate change into natural resource management. USDA Forest Service PNW Research Station.

Oregon Forest Resources Institute. 2006. Forests, carbon and climate change: A synthesis of science findings. (Full report.)

Oregon Forest Resources Institute. 2006. Forests, carbon and climate change: A synthesis of science findings. (Executive Summary.)

Perkowski, M. 2007. Landowners face hurdles in carbon-credit market. Capital Press

Ramsayer, K. 2006. Climate change and Oregon's forests. Bend Bulletin

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Community Forestry

Friedrichs, J. 2007. Bend leaders rally around community forest. New West.

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At the Crossroads is led by:
The Institute for Natural Resources



with support from:
Oregon Forest Resources Institute

Stoel Rives LLC

Sperry Ridge, Inc.

The Pacific Forest Trust



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