August 2012

Volume 11 Issue 4, August 2012
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Portland, Oregon 97221 USA
Phone: 503-488-2130
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WFI Staff
Sara Wu, WFI Director
503-488-2130
swu@worldforestry.org
Chandalin Bennett,
WFI Program Manager
503-488-2137
cbennett@worldforestry.org
Rick Zenn, Senior Fellow
503-488-2103
rzenn@worldforestry.org
2012 International Educators Institute
The 2012 World Forestry
Center International Educators Institute (IEI) was held
July 8-14 in the beautiful
Columbia River Gorge. We
were honored this year to
host leading teachers, forest
researchers and land managers from 11 countries and
5 states in the US.
IEI is an intensive leadership development program
sponsored by the World
Forestry
Center
to
"significantly
advance
teaching and learning about
the world's forests."
Participants included recent
WFI fellows: Cristhian
Gutierrez (Bolivia), Dr. Ali
Malekghasemi (Iran), Tendayi Mhlanga (Zimbabwe)
Dr. Richard O'Hanlon
(Ireland), and Hwa-guang
Shang (Taiwan).
(Brazil), Eric Awuah Kyei
(Ghana), Dr. Ju Chou
(Taiwan), Dick Powell
(Oregon), Harold Anderson
(Mississippi),
Jennifer
Richardson (Arkansas), Lu
Boren (Colorado), James
McGirt (Washington DC)
and Dr Marguerite Forest,
Dr. Nancy Peterson and
Brooke Mohr (Florida).
Other guests were Maya
Adra (Lebanon), Dr. Thobayet Alshahrani (Saudi
Arabia), Dr. Cristina Alves
We would like to thank all
of our partners, donors and
hosts including the Oregon
Community
Foundation,
WFI Fellows
Ali Malekghasemi, Iran
amalekghasemi@
worldforestry.org
Tendayi Mhlanga,
Zimbabwe
tmhlanga@worldforestry.org
Hwa-guang Shang, Taiwan
hshang@worldforestry.org
Harry Merlo, Red Emmerson, and Zimbabwe Fellow
Tendayi Mhlanga discuss the forest products industry.
IEI participants and staff shared a traditional salmon bake dinner prepared by members of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
Continued on next page
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Alumni Updates
Interns play a critical role in the
many events and workshops of
the World Forestry Center This
year we were lucky to have Zitian
Li, a student at the University of
British Columbia, working with
WFI alumnus Dr. Guangyu
Wang. Zitian volunteered nearly
100 hours of service assisting
with the preparations and logistics
of the International Educator’s
Institute.
IEI continued...
Oregon Forest Resources
Institute, US Forest Service, Port Blakely Tree
Farms; Ross Graham at
Weyerhaueser; Mark and
Dawn Smith at EcoPark
Resort; Ray Yukewycz at
Mount St Helens Institute;
Ken Bible and Matt
Schroeder at Wind River
Field Station; Roz Sampson
and Rose Charley at the
Museum at Warm Springs;
John Katchia, Lou Torgeson and Chris Ketchum
at Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries; Suzie
Slockish and family; and
the staff at the Menucha
Retreat Center in Corbett,
Oregon.
We owe a special thank you
this year to the Hampton
Family and the Paul and
Sally McCracken Fund at
the Oregon Community
Foundation for their long
time support of this important,
mission-driven
program.
alumni Dick Powell of
Starker Forests and Kelly
Stanley of Port Blakely
Tree Farms will lead a
panel discussion examining the impact of IEI at
the upcoming Society of
American
Foresters
(SAF) national convention in Spokane, Washington.
Note:
On
October 27,
Rick Zenn
and
IEI
IEI participants had the option of doing the full
seven mile hike from the top of Larch Mountain
down to Multnomah Falls. The group took a break
for lunch at a lovely spot in the forest.
*****
2010 Australian alumnus Sue
Baker is back in the Pacific Norwest! She was the recipient of a
prestigious Fulbright scholarship
and will be in the PNW for a few
months this summer researching
beetle biodiversity in variable
retention silviculture plots.
Sue studied the use of variable
retention silviculture techniques in
the region during her one year
Fellowship at WFI and we are
happy to welcome her back to the
region.
Sue Baker at a recent visit to the
Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Cascade Timber Consulting
Fellows had the opportunity
to visit with Cascade Timber Consulting, Inc out of
Sweet Home, Oregon. Cascade’s CEO Dave Furtwangler and Silviculturalist Bill
Marshall toured WFI
around the David T. Mason
Seed Orchard.
chard, Dave and Bill explained how they graft and
grow trees for intensive
seed production. Fellows
learned about the progeny
tests that have been conducted over the 50+ years
the seed orchard has been
in place and saw some
test sites involving many
different species—even
redwood! It was an informative and pleasurable
day for the group in
Sweet Home. Thanks
Cascade!
Now on their third generation of seed trees in the or-
Fellows investigate cones that have
been covered up so that seed is
produced and captured.
From left: Dave Furtwangler, Hwa-guang (Taiwan), Tendayi
(Zimbabwe), Ali (Iran), and Bill Marshall
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Recent Events
Dr. Dar-hsiung Wang from Taiwan Forest Research Institute
visited WFI and presented research about the bamboo resources in Taiwan.
WFI was just one of many stops for
Dr. Wang on his research tour in
the US.
*****
WFI Fellows and staff were
guests of Harry Merlo and Global
Aviation at the Oregon International Air Show at the Hillsboro
airport in August.
******
Top: Zimbabwe Fellow Tendayi
(left), WFI Director Sara Wu
(center) and Bolivian Fellow Cristhian (right) enjoyed the stunt airplanes and fighter jet displays.
WA DNR Field Tour
WFI Alumnus Roslyn Henricks hosted WFI in
August on a tour of Washington State Department of Natural Resources lands (DNR) near
Mt. Rainier. Roslyn spent a year at WFI in
2009 studying landscape aesthetics of plantation management. Now a forester for DNR,
Roslyn and head forester Ted Keeley took the
group out to state forestland to talk about
their management and current projects. Fellows stopped at some thinning sites, discussed
habitat management and saw an active logging
operation. A visit to the top of a peak, called
High Hut yielded a spectacular view of Mt.
Rainier. There we met with Recreation Specialist Nancy Barker, who explained DNR’s
commitment to the public to provide various
recreational opportunities across the landscape. It was a tour de force of WA DNR ethics, management and operations. Amazing
day, thanks guys!
Upper right: Fellows discuss an active logging operation with a DNR contractor.
Right: Roslyn Henricks explains some of the thinning
objectives in the stand, including the consideration of
wildlife habitat.
Fellows stand with WA DNR staff in front of Mt. Rainier which was just peeking out from the clouds.
This was the site of High Hut, a rustic lodging accommodation that hikers can stay at year round.
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Irish and Bolivian Fellows Finish Program
Recent Events
Upcoming Speaker Series event:
Wednesday, September 5 @
4pm in the Mt. Hood Room of
the Discovery Museum.
Tendayi Mhlanga from Zimbabwe
will discuss his research into business models and technology of the
sawmilling industry.
Our most recent speaker was Bolivian Fellow Cristhian Gutierrez, who
spoke about marketing strategies
for wood products in small businesses and family forestlands.
*****
The World Forest Institute now
has an RSS feed of the latest forestry industry news on our main
webpage, in partnership with Industry Intelligence.
Visit regularly to stay up-to-date
with the forestry industry.
*****
Fellows and staff enjoyed a lunch at
a local Chinese restaurant trying
some dishes that were new to
many.
Chinese food is eaten ‘family-style’
so that everyone had the opportunity to try every dish.
Two Fellows have finished
their programs over the
summer months.
Dr. Richard O’Hanlon from
County Cork, Ireland finished his 6-month Fellowship in July. He studied the
fungal biodiversity of Sitka
spruce forests here in their
native range and made
comparisons to that in their
exotic range of Ireland and
Britain. His project was
partially funded by the Programme of Competitive
Forestry Research for Development (COFORD) in
Ireland. Results of his research can be found on our
webpage in the Presentations and Posters links.
Mr. Cristhian Gutierrez
from La Paz, Bolivia fin-
Richard explored the native
Sitka spruce forests of western
Oregon and Washington and
said that he saw spruce trees
much larger than any he would
ever see back home!
ished his 6-month Fellowship program in August.
Cristhian studied marketing strategies of small
forestry companies and
family forestlands in the
This was Cristhian’s first visit to
the US and he spent his six
months here visiting as many
sites as possible throughout the
northwest.
region. He was sponsored by
the International Tropical
Timber Association (ITTO).
You can find the results of
his research on our presentations page and also find out
more about Bolivia in his
article published in September issue of The Forestry
Source.
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