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The Rural Technology Initiative
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Northwest Environmental Forum
September 18, 2007
Streaming video presentations and discussions from the forum are now available for viewing!
also available online:
THE FUTURE OF WASHINGTON’S FORESTS AND FORESTRY INDUSTRIES
Final Report: July 31, 2007
Prepared for the Washington Department of Natural Resources
as requested by the Washington State Legislature
by the College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
The report, as requested by the 2005 State Legislature, provides findings of research over the past two years to study the timber availability conditions and management alternatives, the economic contributions the forest lands directly and indirectly make, the competitiveness of the industry in Washington, the land-use pressures that exist for these lands, and the financial returns of State-owned forest lands. The Rural Technology Initiative played a large role in the research and preparation of this report.
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List of Topics on this page
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Streaming Video Presentations
February 23, 2007
University of Washington, Seattle
This collection of short streaming video presentations reflects the wide array of research being done by graduate students at the College of Forest Resources. |
Streaming Video Presentations
February 10, 2007
Olympia, Washington
The 8 presentations given at this seminar are meant primarily for new owners of private forest land to learn “How To” grow, weed, thin or manage forest vegetation, including but not limited to to trees, shrubs, and forest floor vegetation. (Scheduled in the fall, the seminar was postponed due to weather). |
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Climate Change: Implications for Olympic Peninsula Forest Ecosystems Forum
February 23, 2007
Olympic Natural Resources Center, Forks
This forum was designed to combine science with opportunities for forest managers and regulatory agencies who work on the Olympic Peninsula to discuss how they are evaluating science as it relates to proposed changes in management. Click here to go to the streaming video directory!
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The
core of the learning process for this module is a series
of targeted, interactive lessons that progressively build
on principles and applications of forest economics. *Click
here to go to the Economagic web page .
*This
site was funded through CSREES and built by Kevin Zobrist
and Matt McLaughlin of the Rural Technology Initiative.
It is hosted outside of the RTI website at forestandrange.org,
and requires free registration. |
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RTI Projects Featured in the
SAF Western Forester!
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March/April 2006 Issue
- September/October 2005 Issue
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- Who Owns Washington's Working Forestland? (Pages
10-12) -
by Ara Erickson, RTI Forestry
Research Consultant
- Who Owns Washington's Forestlands? A Spatial
Database for Analyzing Land-Use Patterns and Trends (Pages
15-16) -
by Luke Rogers,
RTI Geographic Information Systems Scientist
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Featured The Rural Technology Initiative:
A Collaborative Technology Transfer Center Serving Rural
landowners and Communities
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Issue Highlights:
- The Rural Technology Initiative: A Collaborative Technology
Transfer Center Serving Rural Landowners and Communities
- Forest Stewardship Coached Planning Curriculum Incorporates
LMS
- Wildlife Habitat Modeling with the Landscape Management
System: Using Technology to Assist Silvicultural Planning
- Management Templates That Integrate Ecological and
Economic Objectives
- Helping Forest Landowners Manage Their Roads
- Streaming Video Available on RTI Website
- Resiliency of Interior Dry Fir-Pine Forests
- Green River Community College Student Chapter to
Host Mentoring Night
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This website is funded by RTI and WSU Department of Natural
Resource Sciences. It is intended for the small-scale forest
landowner who is faced with the many tasks required to maintain
a healthy, productive woodlot. These activities may include:
pre-commercial thinning, pruning, fire hazard reduction, snag
creation, dead wood placement, herbicide or fertilizer application,
seeding roads and trails, tree planting, and other improvement
work. You can do much good for your woodlot and at the same
time derive great pleasure in doing this work when you know
what needs to be done and what tools can best and most economically
help you do the job. This web site has been developed to show
you some of these tools. |
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Pursue
a higher education in resource sciences:
The use and preservation of our natural resources is an
issue of extreme importance. How better to make a difference
in this area than to study a natural science at UW or WSU?
Both schools work with RTI in the effort of making current
technologies available in rural communities. There are
a wide variety of scholarships available. If this interests
you, please contact the following institutions. |
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Department
of Natural Resource Sciences |
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The Student
Services office is staffed by:
Undergraduate Contact:
Debra
Salas-Haynes, Undergraduate Counseling Services Coordinator
Graduate Program Contacts:
Michelle
Trudeau, Graduate Counseling Services Coordinator;
Student Services Phone # (206) 543-7081
Be sure to ask about available undergraduate and graduate
scholarship and financial assistance programs! |
The Department of Natural Resource
Sciences is well-positioned to serve the educational needs
of students with an interest in a wide variety of natural
resource and environmental fields, issues and career aspirations.
Go to the link below and navigate to the information that
best relates to your desired field of study.
Department
of Natural Resource Sciences
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Landscape Management
System (LMS), LMS Analyst, LMS Economatic, LMS
Inventory Wizard, Pegger, Stand Visualization
System (SVS), Environmental Visualization System
(EnVision)
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This ranges from short fact sheets to large reports.
You can view all of our publications by using the
"Publications" link on the menu to
the left, or you can go straight to our most recent
publications by clicking here.
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