College of Forestry

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CoF Strategic Realignment

• Get all the facts at the Strategic Realignment Website
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• Now Available:
  Abbreviated Category 1 Proposal to Reorganize CoF (Final Version, PDF)
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• Position Announcements:
      Department Head and Professor,
      Forest Ecosystems and Society
  
      Department Head and Professor,
      Forest Engineering, Resources and
      Management
      (Internal Search: Announcement, Description)

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News

• Family Honors Nat Giustina With $4-Million Gift for Two OSU Professorships

• Loss of Cougars Linked to Disruption of Yosemite Ecosystem
• Forest Scientist Named OSU Distinguished Professor
• Species Discovered To Help Address Hemlock Pest Epidemic
• Truffles Take Center Stage in Two New Books by College of Forestry Authors

Highlights

• 2008 Starker Lecture Series announced. Click here for more information
  
  
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Upcoming Events

• Starker Lecture Series - Capstone Field Trip
  
  Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  

  Engage participants in 2008 Starker Lecture Series on planted forests in a continuation of the dialog about the role of planted forests in the PNW. Bring a real world, operational focus to topics and issues raised in the lectures. Provide interaction between practitioners and academics around the topic of planted forests.

  All day field trip to the Oregon Coast Range. Trip will be via vans, and will leave OSU College of Forestry at 8am and return at 4pm.

  For more information and pre-registration, visit Starker Lecture Series Website.

• Forest Science Graduate Student Symposium
  
  Friday, May 30, 2008 (all day event)
  
  This is the second annual (and final) Forest Science (FS) Grad Student Symposium, featuring oral and poster presentations by current FS students. In addition, we are honored to host two accomplished keynote speakers who are FS alumni: Dan Binkley from Colorado State University and Nate McDowell from Los Alamos National Laboratory. Contact garrett.meigs@oregonstate.edu for more information.