{"id":1926,"date":"2024-11-21T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2024-11-21T21:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:22:56","slug":"revitalizing-tradition-in-modern-forestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2024\/11\/21\/revitalizing-tradition-in-modern-forestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalizing Tradition in Modern Forestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2024\/11\/glenn_blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2024\/11\/glenn_blog.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2024\/11\/glenn_blog-178x300.jpg 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Glenn Jones (left), a graduate student in the COF\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ferm.forestry.oregonstate.edu\/\">Forest Engineering, Resources &amp; Management<\/a> (FERM) department, is collaborating with <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.forestry.oregonstate.edu\/people\/dunn-christopher\">Chris Dunn<\/a> to reconstruct historical and cultural fire regimes on the east slope of the Central Oregon Coast Range. Supported by the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Seeds of Success grant, Jones\u2019 work involves a partnership with the BLM and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians (CTCLUSI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blending Indigenous knowledge with Western science, the project addresses knowledge gaps in the Coast Range about fire return intervals and aims to revive traditional burning practices for CTCLUSI. A Hoopa Valley Tribal member, Jones brings personal experience with cultural burning to his work\u2014an approach that supports habitats, maintains ecologically significant species, and sustains traditional resources. He\u2019s also training to become a federally recognized Burn Boss, expanding his impact in helping Oregon Tribes increase cultural burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis research is not only meaningful to me personally, its impactful to our next seven generations as we face an uncertain future with climate change and contemporary wildfires,\u201d Jones shares. \u201cCo-stewardship of the landscape with Tribes, agencies, and stakeholders is essential in informing management of forest ecosystems of the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phase one of the project\u2014establishing plots, stem mapping, and tree coring\u2014is complete. Phase two begins this winter with fire scar cutting and tree ring analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Jones (left), a graduate student in the COF\u2019s Forest Engineering, Resources &amp; Management (FERM) department, is collaborating with Chris Dunn to reconstruct historical and cultural fire regimes on the east slope of the Central Oregon Coast Range. Supported by the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Seeds of Success grant, Jones\u2019 work involves a partnership with&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2024\/11\/21\/revitalizing-tradition-in-modern-forestry\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213751,1292536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-students","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions\/1928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}