OSU Forest Soils Lab

02/08/2018

New paper on natural and anthropogenic effects on sedimentation in an Oregon Coast Range Lake. Do better timber harvesting practices result in lower sedimentation rates? Read to find out!

Sediment cores retrieved from landslide‐dammed Loon Lake recorded events back to the 5th century AD in a forested, mountainous catchment, thereby providing an opportunity to compare the impacts of known...

11/30/2017

Forest harvesting rules effectively protect water quality in the Alsea watershed. “This and a number of other studies provide some very nice evidence that current best management practices are proving to be much more effective than historical practices,” said Jeff Hatten, lead author and associate professor in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. Studies in other parts of Oregon and the West show that the impacts of such practices depend on landscape characteristics including geology, soil type, slope and historical landslides. More info: http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2017/nov/forest-harvesting-rules-effectively-protect-water-quality-alsea-watershed

09/01/2017

Great story about the successful reduction of fuels and its effect on one of the OR wildfires https://t.co/oj6p52yPXJ

Thinning, Mowing and Prescribed Fire completed earlier this year has helped firefighters battle the Milli Fire outside of Sisters. Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project members Ed Keith and Nicole Strong recently visited an area of the Milli Fire where restoration had been implemented west and sout...

08/10/2017

Congratulations ! she defended her MS thesis today: Prescribed fire effects on Py-C in a ponderosa pine forest

07/28/2017

Quant pits! https://t.co/rEg0lkrfeC

“One of many very precise pits to help understand major ecological & hydrologic processes in 🌲🍄🦎 https://t.co/hhjaLK96kb”

05/27/2017

You probably are aware that the Oregon State University baseball team has been ranked No. 1 in the country for the last nine weeks. But did you know that OSU is also has the top-ranked forestry program in North America, and the

04/27/2017

In addition to the film, there is also a free lecture 12-1PM Thursday May 4th in LINC 200 from Dr. David Weindorf who serves as the Associate Dean for Research for the College of Agricultural Sciences at Texas Tech University! He is an Executive Producer of this film and will present his talk titled "Advanced proximal sensor use for soil characterization".

A teaser for the nonfiction film. Coming in 2017. Funded by The Natural Resources Conservation Service,Texas Tech Public Media, Soil Science Society of Ameri...

04/24/2017

Pretty cool new logo OSU! That tree needs some soil though!

04/13/2017

CORVALLIS, Ore. — Oregon State University has been ranked among the top three universities in the world in forestry and oceanography on the basis of the number of research articles published in top-tier scientific journals.

03/14/2017

In the Westen US it's closer to 65%. And most of that flows through a https://t.co/Hv41Axffv8

“When enjoying a walk in the snowy woods today, remember: more than 50% of our drinking water is stored & filtered by forests ”

02/09/2017

Found a neat soils 101 quiz!

10 fun and interesting true/false questions about healthy soil.

01/18/2017

The cutest decomposer!

Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Whatever you call them, there’s something less creepy about these critters than other insects. Maybe it’s because they’re not insects at all.