PNW Tree Improvement

Research Coop

NW Tree Improvement

Coop

Nursery Tech Coop

Vegetation Management

Research Coop

Hardwood Silviculture

Coop

Stand Management

Coop

Swiss Needle Cast Coop

Precision Forestry Coop

Industry & Agency clientsNewton Maguire

Harrington

Ritchie

pollen contamination

breeding values from progeny tests

stock type & stock physiology

Critical period threshold

Alder response to spacing

Thinning and fertilization responses

Foliage age class dynamics

LIDAR technology

Industry & Agency clients

Watershed silviculture

non-N fertlization

water use by competition

young stand model

pollen contamination

breeding values from progeny tests stock type & stock

physiology

Critical period threshold

Alder response to spacing

Thinning and fertilization responses

Foliage age class dynamics

LIDAR technology

Watershed silviculture

non-N fertlization

water use by competition

young stand model

Silvicultural treatments

ROTATION

Competing vegetation control

ROTATION

pre-harvest

site prep ?

release ?

release regime ?

Silvicultural INVESTMENT

ROTATION

Invest in release from competing vegetation in year 2 ?

OR

Fertilize in year 20 ?

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

SilvicultureRationale

A new approach to cooperative silvicultural research is required to:

(1) remain competitive in the global economy

(2) achieve financial targets demanded by owners

(3) protect the health and sustainability of the forest resource

It must be long-term, integrative, and broad in scope.

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

SilvicultureCIPS Mission

To optimize productivity, health and sustainability of intensively managed planted forests by investigating the interactions among genetics, silviculture, insects and disease, competition, nutrition, and soils,

while ensuring that the practices developed protect public resources and find public acceptance .

PNW Tree Improvement

Research Coop

NW Tree Improvement

Coop

Nursery Tech Coop

Vegetation Management

Research Coop

Hardwood Silviculture

Coop

Stand Management

Coop

Swiss Needle Cast Coop

Precision Forestry Coop

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

Organizational Structure

• Director – 0.5 FTE faculty member• Steering committee:

– One representative from each supporting organization– Works with Director to develop strategic research plan – Approves specific projects– Reviews program annually

• Science advisory group – current research coop directors and other scientists

(from OSU, other universities, and industry).

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

SilvicultureInitial ChargeTwo parallel tracks:

(1) develop a strategic plan for CIPS and initiate its research program

(2) lead development of a strategic vision for comprehensive and integrative research on plantation silviculture in the region.

CIPS

CIPS strategic plan CIPS projects

Comprehensive strategic vision

Regional strategic

framework

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

2007 May 1 CIPS planning begins

July 1 Funded CIPS activities begin

2008 June 30 End of first year of CIPS

FUNDING

Each CIPS member contributes $4,000

Minimum of $40,000 first-year commitment by CIPS members for:

¼ Director salary/OPE, travel, and indirect costs

College covers: ¼ Director salary/OPE

¼ Faculty Research Assistant salary/OPE

Projects cover additional FRA salary/OPE

Project Types

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

RESEARCH INFORMATION

CIPS Annual Conference Symposia Workshops

Data syntheses Supplements to existing field trials New field/lab trials

Models & decision-making software Silvicultural field guides Literature review/synthesis

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

Founding members as of April 12, 2007:

Roseburg Forest Products Weyerhaeuser Company Green Diamond Forest Capital Partners Starker Forests Campbell Group Lone Rock Timber Hancock Resource Oregon Department of Forestry Plum Creek Timber Forest Systems Rayonier Cascade Timber Consultants Port Blakely Bureau of Land Management Longview Fibre/Brookfield

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

Thanks

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

• Develop a CIPS strategic plan and initial research – Set priorities on research topics and strategies– Identify one or more specific projects, complete with

timelines and budgets– Identify staffing and support needs– Develop long-term funding mechanism– Assemble a modeling committee

• Committee focus should be model “invariant”• ORGANON subcommittee to: approve changes to ORGANON,

maintain and archive all ORGANON databases, and oversee the maintenance of the ORGANON computer code.

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

• Lead development of a strategic vision for comprehensive and integrated research in the region– Assemble a review committee made up of leaders and

representatives of organizations currently involved in various aspects of plantation silviculture and research in the region

– Develop a vision for an integrated research program that covers interactions among genetics, competition, nutrition, soils, and insects and disease

– Provide an analysis of the effectiveness and cost efficiency of regional research with respect to the strategic vision and provide recommendations for improvement

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture 

OSU Supporting organizations

____________ _______________

Budget Item FTE Cost FTE Cost

_________________________________________________________________________

 Salary + OPE

Director 0.25 $ 30,812 0.25 $ 30,812

Executive Director 0.25 17,885

Travel 3,000

__________________________________________________________________________

Total direct $ 48,697 $ 33,812

Total indirect ? (20% ?)* $ 6,762 (?)

Total $ 48,697 $ 40,574

___________________________________________________________________________

*The indirect cost rate is established during negotiations with the University as part of the approval process to establish the Center (i.e., approval of a “Category I Proposal”)

Fertilization Trials

Target stands:

20 yrs old (± 5 yrs)

300 tpa (± 100 tpa)

No PCT or fertilization for ≥ 8 yrs

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

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TreatmentForm Amount Reason for inclusion

Kinsey Blend Site specific Scientific and industry interest in overall nutritional limits to productivity

Fenn Blend Site specific Scientific and industry interest in overall nutritional limits to productivity

Control - - - - Statistical reference for treatments

Lime CaCO3 1000 kg Ca / ha Preliminary success, elevates pH, reduces Al, adds Ca: compare to Ca-only treatment

N Urea 224 kg N / ha Standard approach, examine effects of adding N to N-rich sites

P Na3PO4 500 kg P / ha Can limit growth in highly weathered soils, some sites have P-fixing soils

Ca CaCl2 100 kg Ca / ha Low soil and foliar Ca is common at our sites, attributable to high soil N

Fertilization Trials 15 installations

Cascade Timber Giustina Green Diamond (2) Hampton (2) Lone Rock Menasha (2) ODF OSU Port Blakely West ForkTimber Weyerhaeuser (2)

CIPSCenter for Intensive Plantation

Silviculture

1/40-ac plots centered on measure tree (radius=18.6 ft)

1-chn grid

Nutrient P (lbs/ac)

Level 0 50 100

N (lbs/ac)

0 control 50P 100P

200 200N 200N-50P 200N-100P

400 400N 400N-50P 400N-100P

Fenn prescription for site-specific blend

Fenn prescription + 200N

Proposal from Nutrition Project Stand Management Cooperative University of Washington

CIPS Director

Steering Committee

Executive Director Project Team

Research Assistants Graduate Students

Coop Directors

Research Technicians

Project oversight

Center for Intensive Planted-forest Silviculture

Vice Director

Project

Modeling Board

DEMO units

logged in 1997 & 1998