2011 Northwest Environmental Forum

Forest Watershed Services: Forests for Fish, Forests for Faucets

The June 2011 Northwest Environmental Forum (NWEF) is intended to help launch a collaborative initiative to develop and implement a demonstration forest watershed services market project in 2011-12, in order to generate useful transaction evidence, in response to legislative direction in Engrossed Substitute House Bill (ESHB) 2541. The intended outcome of the Forum is to flesh out key aspects of the project and secure commitments to participate in an initial project workgroup or workgroups.

Streaming Video Presentations

8th Annual School of Forest Resources
Graduate Student Symposium

University of Washington, Seattle
February 25, 2011

This collection of short streaming video presentations reflects the wide array of research being done by graduate students at the College of Forest Resources.

Wood to Energy in Washington:
Imperatives, Opportunities, and
Obstacles to Progress

At the request of the Washington State Legislature, a thorough investigation of the potential for utilization of wood for renewable energy in Washington has been conducted by University of Washington scientists. This report represents a synthesis of information and analysis provided from many sources.

Washington's Resource Lands

The Washington Resource Lands webpage consists of information stemming from the Washington State Forestland Database and the Small Forest Landowner Database. The collection, compilation, and assessment of data derived from these databases is the core of the 2007 Washington State Forestland Database: Final Report . Go to the Washington Resource Lands page for other reports, informative tables, and statewide maps!

The Rural Technology Initiative was invited to present at the SAF Convention in the Tribal Forestry session. The complete session was video recorded and can be accessed by following the link above.

Larry Mason represented the College of Forest Resources, and presented during the session. His streaming video presentation is available with the others using the link above. Alternatively, you can view PDF of his presentation Tribal Forestry - Increasingly Important yet Underappreciated. You can reveal the notes for each slide by holding your cursor over the icon in the upper-left corner ().

Riparian Adaptive Management Symposium

November 3-4, 2008

University of Washington • Olympic Natural Resources Center
1455 S Forks Avenue • Forks, Washington

Report to the Washington State Legislature

The Washington Log Trucking Industry:
Costs and Safety Analysis

August 2008

The Rural Technology Initiative, University of Washington
and
The Transportation Research Group, Washington State University

(C. Larry Mason, Kenneth L. Casavant, Bruce R. Lippke,
Diem K. Nguyen, and Eric Jessup)

Here's a related article from the University of Washington News.

Forest Fuels Reductions and Biomass-to-Energy;
Parallel Opportunities for Public Benefit

This PDF is the presentation given at the conference by Larry Mason of the Rural Technology Initiative. To see the narrative text that accompanies this presentation, place your mouse cursor over the icon in the upper left corner of each slide.

Economagic: A Learning Module for Demystifying Forest Economics -

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.