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Author: Doug Pollock

Another Steaming Pile of Forest Planning Ire for the Dean and his Team

November 1, 2024 Doug Pollock

OSU’s forest planning team held it’s fourth “community input session” for the McDonald-Dunn Forests on October 28th, 2024.  College leaders…

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OSU Leaders Reprimanded for Outdated Forestry Practices – Do Any of them Care?!

Doug Pollock

The OSU Trustees, president Murthy, and the entire administration was once again called to task for failing to respond to…

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Refuting OSU’s Blatant Forestry Misinformation

August 20, 2024 Doug Pollock

This (25-page) PDF document was compiled to refute OSU’s unprecedent campaign of misinformation regarding their ‘Woodpecker – Phase 1’ project.…

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OSU Logs 108 Year-Old Forest; Dean Disparages Public Concern In Orchestrated Misinformation Campaign

July 19, 2024 Doug Pollock

Despite unprecedented community concern, OSU has stubbornly moved forward with the ‘Woodpecker Phase 1’ logging project (described in my previous…

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OSU’s ‘Woodpecker Thin’ Reveals Greed and Arrogance of College Leaders

June 22, 2024 Doug Pollock

The large, old tree on the right has been marked for cutting by OSU’s foresters. Since trees are connected through…

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OSU Feels the Heat of Forest Planning Ire

June 17, 2024 Doug Pollock

(This piece was published in The Corvallis Advocate on June 17th, 2024) Smoke from slash burning in OSU’s Dunn Forest…

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OSU Forest Planning Update: interpreting the College of Forestry’s ‘management strategies’ for our public forests

May 31, 2024 Doug Pollock

Background on OSU’s current planning process:  In June 2022, Oregon State University began a long-overdue update of their management plan…

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The College’s Secret Land Deal: Part 3 – Dunn Forest Deal Benefits Timber Industry Donor

January 15, 2024 Doug Pollock

This ~80 year-old section of OSU’s Dunn Forest was recently sold to a private timber company (one of the College’s…

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The College’s Secret Land Deal: Part 2 – Lost Opportunities in the Spaulding Research Forest

Doug Pollock

In my previous blog piece, I outlined three recent land transactions involving the McDonald-Dunn Research Forests (public forest lands stewarded…

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The College’s Secret Land Deal: Part 1 – Into the Maze

January 14, 2024 Doug Pollock

A few years back, I learned of secret negotiations involving the possible donation of a large tract of private forest…

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