An Auspicious Beginning - A Favorable Setting A Propitious Forestry Summer Camp

The 1984 Forestry Camp was held at Camp Cassaway on the Chippewa National Forest in northcentral Minnesota

From Iowa to Montana and Back Again: Forestry Camp- 1987

The 1987 Forestry Camp was held from June 27 through August 5, 1987 at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, Greenough, Montana. The late start was due to another group slated to use the Lubrecht for the first three weeks in June. ISU foresters have used this University of Montana facility several times over the 73 years of forestry camp. This year, as in past years the students and staff enjoyed the hospitality of the staff and natural resources professionals who helped with tours or field exercises. The success of the camp was due largely to three factors: 1) a great bunch of students eager to learn and willing to endure our high expectations, 2) exceptional support and aid from the Lubrecht staff of Mr. Hank Goetz, Manager, Mr. Frank Maas, Assistant Manager, and Dr. Robert (Bob) Pfister, Project Director of the Mission Oriented Research Project (MORP), and 3) a dedicated, enthusiastic staff consisting of Dr. Richard (Dick) Schultz, Dr. Monlin Kuo and myself

The New Departmental Executive Officer - Dr. Steven E Jungst

The Department of Forestry at Iowa State University-81 years young- has a new Department Executive Officer (DEO). Steven E. Jungst, Professor of Forestry, colleague, and friend, is the 6th DEO in our forestry department\u27s history. He will become Chairman July, 1 1985

Forecasts of Wastepaper Supply and Consumption In The United States To 1985

Recycling of wastepaper is a partial solution to the solid waste management problem and a source of fibrous material in the production of paper and board products. Unlike virgin fiber, wastepaper is the result of past paper and board consumption. To consider these important facts and others affecting wastepaper supply and consumption, a model of the paper and board industry inclusive of wastepaper recycling was constructed. The results of application of this model showed that wastepaper supply and consumption can vary widely depending on the future recovery rates and utilization levels of wastepaper by the paper industry. By assuming the most optimistic wastepaper recovery and utilization increases by 1985, a domestic wastepaper supply shortfall is forecasted. However, the most likely future wastepaper utilization scenario indicates a surplus of wastepaper by 1985 given average recovery rates. The model can be used to consider a broad range of wastepaper recovery and utilization situations and alternative economic growth rates

Agroforestry- Growing Crops, Livestock, and Trees on Iowa Farms and the Midwest

Agroforestry is formally defined as a land-use system that intentionally combines trees or shrubs with annual plants and/or animals on the same land area. The combination may exist at the same time or in a sequential fashion (Agroforestry Systems, 1982). The production of diverse agronomic and forestry outputs (hence agro-forestry ) on the same land area is an important feature that may be very practical in trying to strengthen and diversify the primarily agricultural economy of Iowa. While agroforestry is still an emerging food, fiber, and industrial material production system in the American Midwest, it has been proven to be a sustainable system of land use in many parts of the world. Sustainability implies that this land use system is a healthy, economically viable, and environmentally protective technology

Evaluation of interactions within a shelterbelt agroecosystem

A tree shelterbeit comprised of four rows of hybrid poplars was established near Ogden, Iowa in 1992 to evaluate shelterbeit characteristics and impacts on soil water content and crop growth andyieid. Major emphasis was on testing crops of corn and soybeans. The first three years saw little effects from the shelterbeit, and data from these years will be used to develop a baseline for future measurements. In the fourth and fifth years, corn yield patterns suggested that the shelterbeit increases yields in the zone leeward from the shelterbeit. Soybeans have not shown a response to the presence of the shelterbeit