OSU’s forest planning team held it’s fourth “community input session” for the McDonald-Dunn Forests on October 28th, 2024. College leaders…
The OSU Trustees, president Murthy, and the entire administration was once again called to task for failing to respond to…
This (25-page) PDF document was compiled to refute OSU’s unprecedent campaign of misinformation regarding their ‘Woodpecker – Phase 1’ project.…
Despite unprecedented community concern, OSU has stubbornly moved forward with the ‘Woodpecker Phase 1’ logging project (described in my previous…
The large, old tree on the right has been marked for cutting by OSU’s foresters. Since trees are connected through…
(This piece was published in The Corvallis Advocate on June 17th, 2024) Smoke from slash burning in OSU’s Dunn Forest…
Background on OSU’s current planning process: In June 2022, Oregon State University began a long-overdue update of their management plan…
This ~80 year-old section of OSU’s Dunn Forest was recently sold to a private timber company (one of the College’s…
In my previous blog piece, I outlined three recent land transactions involving the McDonald-Dunn Research Forests (public forest lands stewarded…
A few years back, I learned of secret negotiations involving the possible donation of a large tract of private forest…