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February I I , 1982 (Sec 2, Forest slash burning effects to be studied A new Oregon State University research pro ject is aimed at developing a system for predicting the effect of residual smoke from forest slash burning on air quality The system will provide guidelines for scheduling and regulating prescribed slash burning in moun tanious areas of the Nor thwest “ It will enable forest slash — residue from logg ing operations — to be burned in such a manner as to minimize the air pollu tion impacts on smoke sen sitive areas,“ says M A ( Mike) Wolf, associate pro fessor in the department of atmospheric sciences and principal investigator for this Air Resources Center research program The study is funded by the U S Forest Service’s Key to producing more ‘10s’ may be with cloning process Cloning may help the Northwest’s $40 million a- year Christmas tree in dustry produce more 10s Prospects are good for improving and steadying the quality of Douglas F ir Christmas trees by grow ing them from cuttings taken from high-quality- trees instead of from seeds, according to Oregon State University horticulturist Bill Proebsting “ W ere hoping this will substantially raise average tree quality although the odds of every tree becom ing a 10 are small,” Pro ebsting said. The researcher is involv ed in a seven year old clon ing study in itiated by retired OSU horticulturist Al Roberts and funded by OSU’s horticulture depart ment and the Northwest Christmas Tree Associa tion Proebsting reported on th e p ro je c t in the November-December issue of Ornamentals Northwest, a p u b lic a tio n of the Cooperative Extension Ser vices of O"U, the Universi ty of Idaho and Washington S ta te U n iv e r s ity and B r itis h C o lu m b ia 's Ministry of Agriculture All methods of growing plants without using seeds, such as rooting and grow ing cuttings, buds and tissue cultures, are cloning techniques, the researcher explained Cloning Christmas trees produces genetically iden tical trees and would help growers avoid the varia tions in quality that appear in stands of Christmas trees grown from seeds, he said By cloning superior trees in s e ed lin g t r ia ls , Christmas tree growers may be able to produce trees that grow faster and look better, Proebsting ad ded, notin g th a t characteristics such as a tree's ability to retain its needles and resist pests are also important An evaluation committee participating in the study recently gave eight-year old Christmas trees cloned from cuttings an overall quality rating of 7 or better on a scale of 1 to 10 With the same rating system, high quality commercial Christmas tr< es average about 6. Proebsting said. There are obstacles, the researcher pointed out Cloning is more expensive than growing trees from seeds and may narrow the genetic base of Northwest Christm as tree stocks, m a k in g them m ore vulnerable to environmen tai changes To avoid that, scientists will encourage growers to clone several trees. A limited number of cut tings from the project's stocks a re being distributed to commercial Christmas tree producers in Oregon and Washington for tests under commercial conditions and OSU resear chers will continue study ing the best methods of cloning Christmas trees, according to Proebsting “ OSU is making the material widely available to Christmas tree growers and nurserymen so that the industry can determine the role the trees will play in Northwest Christmas tree production,'* he said Pacific Northwest Forest in te n s ity b urnin g, the and Range Experim ent smoke from the smoldering Station This year’s grant residue stays close to the is for $80,313 ground where it often is en The OSU scientists will trained by the drainage look particularly at how winds.” the atmospheric smoke from smoldering scientist said fo re s t slash fire s is Wolf helped spearhead transported onto valley the studies that OSU con floors in the nighttime ducted from 1978 to 1980 on drainage winds. grass seed field burning “ As the mountain slopes and ways to burn m ax cool, following the loss of im u m a c re a g e w h ile solar heating, the air in minimizing pollution pro contact with the ground is blems cooled. It becomes more That work was done for dense and sinks down the the Department of En slope to produce a part of vironmental Quality, which the nighttime air circula regulates field burning tion As the cold air drifts Regulation of forest slash into the lower levels, it may burning is a responsibility carry along the residual of the Oregon Department smoke from the forest of Forestry. slash burns,” Wolf explain Problems of field burn ed. ing and slash a re “ Residual smoke is the d ra m a tic a lly d iffe re n t, special problem ,’’ Wolf Wolf observed “The burn pointed out. “ This is the ing of forest slash at a smoke given off during low selected site takes far intensity burning Instead lo n g e r th an b u rn in g of rising well above the residue from a grass seed forest as in the case of high field because the fuel I « « «»»A I O th e r s ix th g ra d e rs honored were Stephanie T r a m m e ll, L yd ia, Yungeta-rg, l-eslie Barker, Kristy Kruger, Suzanne McKenzie. 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B rad F ra s e r , Colleen Greene, Kim Gustafson, John Strickland. Kristina Whitmore The hearing before the Clackamas County hear mgs officer. is Mheduled for io 30 a m at the D e p a rtm e n t of En vironmenlai Services Wtt Abernethy Road Oregon City )79| » FREE MOUNTING » FREE ROTATION ♦ FREE FLAT REPAIR Mobile hom e af>f>cal set The group tryin g Io establish a 192 lol mobile home development in the Brightwood area will takr t h e ir ap p e a l Io Ihe Clackamas County Board of Commissioners Feb 22 The group headed by Paul Rice and Lowell Njust, want lu develop a 182 krt mobile home plann ed unit development sub division on the south side of / m t a, !><««•» • C i ï T '. - . ’ T r - . - \ »i Students must maintain a grade point average of 3 2 Other seventh-graders or better in order to qualify included Bryce Linton. for the honor roll Danielle Phillips, Martha F ifth grade students R ic h a rd s o n , C h ris named to the honor roll Rockwood. Andy Shaw, were Renae Aschoff. Ixiri Scott S h ie ld s, John Bennett, Lana Broeren, Strickland, Chuang Tang. Kelly Bundy, Travis Can Cory Taylor, Craig Woodall non, D a v id C o p h e r, and Tammy Wright Stefanie Danielson, Doug Eighth graders named to Greene, Derick Hager and the honor roll were Jim Rochelle Hale Other fifth graders on Dwyre, Darren Ford, Mike the honor roll included Houston. Coral Howell, Julie Hensel, Jill Jackson. Steve l-ee. Rusty Moss. Lynn Nakvasil, Kerry Ann Stacey R easor, M o ira R ic h a rd s o n , Shannon O'Halloran. Heidi Perry, Stearns, Wesley Stevens, Kathy Raymond, Ernest Jenni Stotts, Cheng Tang, Koberta, Anthony Stewart, Sok lliang Tang, I>cni*e Terri Trotter, Jeff Wilson, Monica Wyss and Dan Toyooka and la u re l Trot Young ter Sixth grade students named to the honor roll w ere B ill C ate. B illy F ia h e r, M ichael Ford, Mary Houston, Colette Lin ton, Pixie Meier, Trixie Meier, Blair O'Halloran, Barry Back and Roger Robinson drainage flows and on the entrainment and subse quent transport and disper sion of residual smoke, Field studies will be con ducted in logging areas in the upper McKenzie River region and along the McKenzie River toward Eugene Most of the work will be done at night "While there has been an increasing effort toward understanding mountain meterology, relatively lit tle research has been done on the transport of residual smoke in drainage flow. * Wolf noted “ The combined complexities of slash burn operations and mountain m e tero lo g y p ro v id e a s u b s ta n tia l re s e a rc h challenge." Working with Wolf in the program will be Paul C. Katen, research associate in the department of a t mospheric sciences, and g ra d u a te and undergraduate students at OSU «T Boring Grade School honor roll announced Officials at Boring Upper Grade School this week an nounced the honor roll for the second nine weeks of school elements are large and more dens«* “ A slash burn may con tinue generating smoke for a day or two," Wolf ex plained. “ virtually assur ing the emission of residual smoke during drainage wind conditions." Residual smoke from fie ld b u rn in g in the Willamette Valley also can be a problem during stable nighttime conditions, ac cording to Wolf However, the problem can be more severe in slash burning when the smoke is unable to disperse horizontally d u rin g its tra n s p o rt because of containment by the walls of the narrow valleys typical of moun tainous terrain The OSU program will be d ire c te d to w a rd a mathem atical prediction model, but much of the in itial effort will emphasize field studies to develop in formation on the occur rence and behavior of USE THE LES SCHWAB EASY CREDIT BU RESH Ì
