Lumber producer Sierra Pacific Industries gave $6 million to the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. The lumber producer is supporting construction of an advanced wood products laboratory, part of OSU’s Oregon Forest Science Complex that will create a new home for the college. Plum Creek donated $1 million in September to the Complex.

An initiative is underway at Oregon State University to build a $60 million complex to supports its forestry education programs and advanced wood products research.

Oregon State University has begun an initiative to build a $60 million complex to accelerate its forestry education programs and research on advanced wood products.

The project will investigate increasing impacts of drought, insect attacks and fires on forests in the western U.S., and to project how the influence of climate change may affect forest die-offs in the future.

Oregon State University has received a five-year, $4 million grant from the United States Department of Agriculture to investigate increasing impacts of drought, insect attacks and fires on forests in the western U.S., and to project how the influence of climate change may affect forest die-offs in the future.