Forestry Extension Broadcasts, 1971-1972

Collection Overview

Title: Forestry Extension Broadcasts, 1971-1972

ID: RG 264

Primary Creator: Oregon State University. Extension Forestry Program

Extent: 0.15 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: The collection is described in a single series: 1. Audiocassettes, 1971-1972. The recordings held in this series were arranged in nearly complete chronological order prior to their transfer to SCARC, and this order has been maintained. Recording 1.23 was filed out of chronological order and recordings 1.24 and 1.25 are undated.

Date Acquired: 00/00/2016

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

Abstract

Scope and Content Notes

The Forestry Extension Broadcasts are comprised of twenty-five audiocassette recordings made in 1971 and 1972. Each recording consists of an interview with an OSU professor of Forestry or, in a small number of cases, with a staff member from the OSU Forestry Extension Service. Each interview also focuses on a specific topic of interest in forestry, with themes ranging from forest management to environmental concerns to economic issues. Certain episodes also preview upcoming forestry-related short courses and conferences to be held at OSU. The recordings were produced for radio broadcast on KOAC-FM.

The OSU faculty whose interviews remain extant in this collection are as follows: John Bell, Alan Berg, John Beuter, Hugh Black, George Brown, Henry Froelich, Richard Hermann, Robert Krahmer, Lloyd Gay, Bob Graham, Denis Lavender, Milford McKimmy, Dave Paine, Bill Parke, Larry Streetby, Charles Sutherland Jr., Richard Waring, and Jesse Wellons. Two recordings with Extension Specialist Gary Sander are also included, and OSU graduate student Dick Lammel is an interviewee as well. The interviewers are not identified.

Biographical / Historical Notes

Forestry at OSU traces its roots back to 1896, when the first forestry class was taught at Oregon Agricultural College. Ten years later, the college established a four-year degree program, and Forestry was elevated to school status in 1913, with George Peavy serving as its first dean. The School of Forestry became a college of its own in 1984.

Although the OSU Extension Service dates to 1911, not until 1944 was a farm forestry project initiated within Extension. In the late 1940s, the Extension Service added two foresters to the central staff at OSU. By the early 1980s, the Extension Forestry program included ten county agents and eight central staff forestry specialists, and was administered by the College of Forestry.

The predecessor to KOAC radio, KFDJ, came into being in December 1922 and first broadcast a month later. The station changed its call letters to KOAC in 1925. In 1981, the State System of Higher Education divested its radio and television stations, including both KOAC-AM and KOAC-TV. These stations became a public corporation, Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB).

Administrative Information

More Extent Information: 1 box; 25 audiocassettes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The Forestry Extension Broadcasts were transferred to the Special Collections and Archives Research Center by the College of Forestry in 2016.

Related Materials:

SCARC's holdings include multiple oral history collections containing recordings related to forests and forestry in Oregon. Among them are the Oral History Interviews, Personal Histories and Sound Recordings Collection on Agriculture, Forestry, and Oregon History (OH 005), the Horner Museum Oral History Collection (OH 010), the Oregon State University Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection (OH 026), and the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Oral History Collection (OH 028).

The work of the OSU Forestry Extension Service is documented in the Forestry Extension Records (RG 103), the Forestry Media Center Slide Collection (P 299), and the Charles R. Ross Papers (MSS Ross). Many more collections document the history of the College of Forestry at OSU, most notably including the College of Forestry Records (RG 139) and the College of Forestry Photograph Collection (P 061). Materials related to KOAC radio are available in the KOAC Records (RG 015) and the KOAC Photographs (P 207). The Arthur H. Sasser Collection (MSS Sasser) includes scripts for forestry-related KOAC broadcasts from the 1930s and 1940s.

SCARC likewise holds the papers of OSU Forestry faculty Alan Berg, Bob Graham and Denis Lavender, each of whom contributed to the Forestry Extension Broadcasts as an interviewee.

Preferred Citation: Forestry Extension Broadcasts (RG 264), Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries.

People, Places, and Topics

Forest management--Oregon.
Forest products industry--Oregon.
Forest protection--Oregon.
Forestry extension--Oregon.
Forestry schools and education--Oregon--Corvallis.
Forests and forestry--Economic aspects--Oregon.
Forests and forestry--Oregon.
KOAC (Radio station : Corvallis, Or.)
Natural Resources
Oregon State University. College of Forestry
University History

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Audiocassettes, 1971-1972

Itemized below are the topic, date and forestry professional interviewed for each audio production held in this collection. The order applied to these cassettes prior to their transfer to SCARC has been maintained in this series.

Extent: 25 audiocassettes

Box-Item 1.1: Forest Environment, November 8, 1971: Interview with George Jemison, OSU Professor of Forestry.
Box-Item 1.2: Clearcutting, November 15, 1971: Interview with Richard Hermann, OSU Professor of Ecology.
Box-Item 1.3: Thinning, December 30, 1971: Interview with Alan Berg, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.4: Fumigants, January 10, 1972: Interview with Bob Graham, OSU Professor of Forest Products.
Box-Item 1.5: Wildlife, January 17, 1972: Interview with Hugh Black, OSU Professor of Forest Wildlife Ecology.
Box-Item 1.6: Comparison of Forestry Practices in Germany and Western Oregon, January 28, 1972: Interview with Henry Froelich, OSU Professor of Forest Engineering, and Dick Lammel, OSU graduate student in Forest Engineering.
Box-Item 1.7: Wood Preservation Short Course, February 14, 1972: Interview with Bob Graham, OSU Professor of Forest Products.
Box-Item 1.8: Taxation, March 20, 1972: Interview with Charles Sutherland, Jr., OSU Professor of Forest Economics.
Box-Item 1.9: Noise Abatement, March 27, 1972: Interview with Milford McKimmy, OSU Professor of Forest Products.
Box-Item 1.10: Forest Climatology, April 10, 1972: Interview with Lloyd Gay, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.11: Water Quality Research, April 17, 1972: Interview with George Brown, OSU Professor of Forest Hydrology.
Box-Item 1.12: International Biological Program, April 24, 1972: Interview with Richard Waring, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.13: ERTS [Earth Resources Technology Satellite] and Skylab, May 8, 1972: Interview with Dave Paine, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.14: Intensifying Forest Management in Oregon, May 15, 1972: Interview with John Bell, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.15: Forest Recreation Short Course, June 5, 1972: Interview with Bill Parke, OSU Professor of Forest Recreation.
Box-Item 1.16: Second North American Forest Biology Workshop, June 17, 1972: Interview with Denis Lavender, OSU Professor of Forest Physiology, and Richard Hermann, OSU Professor of Forest Ecology.
Box-Item 1.17: National Christmas Tree Growers Convention, June 19, 1972: Interview with Gary Sander, OSU Extension Forestry Specialist.
Box-Item 1.18: Forest Land Uses in Oregon, June 24, 1972: Interview with Larry Streeby, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.19: Economic Dependence: A Factor in Forest Land Use Policy, August 14, 1972: Interview with John Beuter, OSU Professor of Forest Management.
Box-Item 1.20: The Cost of Forest Closure in Douglas and Coos Counties, September 18, 1972: Interview with Charles Sutherland, Jr., OSU Professor of Forest Economics.
Box-Item 1.21: Christmas Tree Marketing, November 13, 1972: Interview with Gary Sander, OSU Extension Forestry Specialist. Tape 1 of 2.
Box-Item 1.22: Christmas Tree Marketing, November 13, 1972: Interview with Gary Sander, OSU Extension Forestry Specialist. Tape 2 of 2.
Box-Item 1.23: Bonding Mechanisms in Bark Hardwoods, September 21, 1972: Interview with Jesse Wellons, OSU Professor of Forest Products Chemistry, and Robert Krahmer, OSU Professor of Forest Products.
Box-Item 1.24: Stream Research, circa 1972: Interview with Henry Froelich, OSU Professor of Forest Engineering.
Box-Item 1.25: Taxes, circa 1972: Interview with Charles Sutherland, Jr., OSU Professor of Forest Economics.