Port Orford cedar along the Blue Lake trail. POC technical meeting field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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Sugar pine seedlings at the Tsemeta Tree Nursery. Port Orford cedar technical committee field trip. Hoopa, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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Competing trees thinned to release sugar pines. Cottage Grove Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 16, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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Port Orford cedars dying of an unknown cause. Port Orford cedar technical committee field trip. Hoopa Valley Tribe, northern California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 22, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:...
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Fish Lake with skeletons of dead Port Orford cedar trees. POC technical meeting field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:...
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Mikki Coumas reading seed X-rays. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: c.2002 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for...
Topics: seeds, foresthealthprotection, usda, stateandprivateforestry, dorenatreeimprovementcenter,...
Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) employee clearing brush and grass around seed orchard. Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1965 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics...
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Richard Sniezko and Bro Kinloch. 2003 Rustbusters meeting. Cottage Grove Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: August 17, 2003 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease...
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Fish Lake with skeletons of dead Port Orford cedar trees. POC technical meeting field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:...
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Surviving western white pine at Grass Creek test site - planted in about 1970. Rustbusters 2003 field trip. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. For more about the Grass Creek test site see: Sniezko, R. A., Kinloch Jr, B. B., Bower, A. D., Danchok, R. S., Linn, J. M., & Kegley, A. J. (2004). Field resistance to Cronartium ribicola in full-sib families of Pinus monticola in Oregon. Breeding and genetic resources of five-needle pines: growth, adaptability, and pest resistance. USDA Forest Service...
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Nicking seed coats; scarifying to help germination. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: c.2002 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding...
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Bro Kinloch (left) and Delbert Albin. Photo by: Unknown Date: c.2002 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native...
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Joe Linn, Dorena Genetic Resource Center Center Manager. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: c.2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for...
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Port Orford cedar along the Blue Lake trail. POC technical meeting field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
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Breaking ground for foundation and construction of the new office. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 19, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena...
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"Clean" seed after aspirator use. Seed processing at the Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific...
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Jim Schmahl, Dorena Nurseryman, is running extracted and de-winged seed through an "Aspirator" for final cleaning. Seed processing at the Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is...
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Mack St. Clair processing seed at the Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses...
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Drew sowing seeds. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: c.2003 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines...
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Mack St. Clair placing "minibags" on young grafts. Mack was the Dorena Tree Breeding Supervisor in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1970 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific...
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Sign reads: "Dorena Forest Tree Seed Orchard. Producing seed from disease resistant strains of white pines. Cooperators: Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management. Operated by the Umpqua National Forest" Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: July 6, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena...
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Port Orford cedar bridge on the way to Blue Lake. POC technical meeting field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection:...
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Regional Geneticist Tom Greathouse in a select western white pine tree at the Champion Mine site in 1964. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Additional note from Gerald Barnes: "Champion Mine on the Cottage Grove Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest is ‘famous’ as site of first finding of very high genetic resistance to white pine blister rust (WPBR) – turned out to be ‘major gene resistance’ – written up many years later (Kinloch et al. 1999, Phytopathology)." Photo and...
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Beginning construction of the foundation for the new office. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 23, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena...
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Dorena Seed Orchard in the 1960s. A "minibag" on a terminal western white pine shoot. A full-sized bag would bend and distrot the growth of the graft. Note the full-sized second year cone. Dorena Genetic Resouce Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1966 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource...
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In the first few inoculation runs in the inoculation chamber, branches with white pine blister rust infected leaves were stuck in progeny pots in a uniform scatter throughout the chamber. Dorena Project - late 1960s. This procedure was later replaces with screens with infected Ribes leaves placed over each fram in measured numbers. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center....
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Champion Mine. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Note: The last western white pine in this area was killed by blister rust in 1994. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: August 16, 2003 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC online photo collection: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme... Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses...
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Looking up the hill from Champion Mine. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Note: The last western white pine in this area was killed by blister rust in 1994. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: August 16, 2003 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC online photo collection: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme... Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific...
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Rob Mangold - Center Geneticist. Dorena Tree Improvement Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Note: PORTLAND, Ore. January 11, 2013. The U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station today formally announced Dr. Rob Mangold as its acting Director. Mangold replaces Bov Eav, who retired last month after nearly seven years with the station. “It is great to be back in the Northwest,” Mangold said. “I look forward to working closely with station employees, stakeholders, and partners to...
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Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) employees setting up progeny frames. Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1965 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific...
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Port Orford cedar validation trial - 2003 planting at Fish Lake. Pete Angwin - center. Port Orford cedar technical committee field trip. Six Rivers National Forest, California. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: June 23, 2004 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health...
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Western white pine progeny frames placed in inoculation chamber. Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1965 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific...
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Beginning construction of the foundation for the new office. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 23, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena...
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Whitebark pines with cones. Tipsoo Peak, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. For more about plant pathologist Josh Bronson's work with whitebark pine, see "Caging Cones: Investing in a Future for Whitebark Pine" by Catherine Caruso (USFS PNW Office of Communications and Community Engagement) here: yournorthwestforests.org/2018/09/11/caging-cones-investin... Photo by: Josh Bronson Date: July 16, 2018 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health...
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Mack St. Clair is pollinating western white pine MGR (Major Gene Resistance) progeny siblings in the quest for homozygous MGR genotypes. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes Date: 1970 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service...
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Douglas-fir beetle survey crew. L-R: Ken Wright, Paul Buffam, Leon Pettinger, and Ernie Pearson (Oregon State Board of Forestry). Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Photo by: K.H. Wright Date: Sometime during the summer of 1958 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Collection: Portland Station Collection; La Grande, Oregon. Image: PS-3094 To learn more about this photo collection see: Wickman, B.E., Torgersen, T.R. and Furniss,...
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A Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) employee setting up a progeny frame for filling and sowing with western white pine seedlings for artificial inoculation. Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1965 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center...
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Mack St. Clair placing pollination bags on young western white pine progeny in a Zone 4 MGR (Major Gene Resistance) progeny planting at the Dorena Seed Orchard in 1970. Note that there are four siblings in a group. Each group is from a common MGR parent tree. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes Date: 1970 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage...
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Visitors from Taiwan: Dr. Israel Bau-Jen Jiang with two students; Dorena employees: Jerry Berdeen, Heather May, and Lee Riley. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 15, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest...
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The conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) was found in some seed lots at Dorena. Seed processing at the Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional...
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Tree breeding in western white pine at the Dorena Seed Orchard in the 1960s. A recently pollinated WWP cone "flower" can be seen in this minibag. Color-coded ribbon identifies the cross. Dorena Genetic Resouce Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo courtesy of: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1966 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA...
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Zachary Dimare, a forestry technician on the Umpqua National Forest, places a hardware cloth cage over a whitebark pine cone to protect it for later collection. Tipsoo Peak, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. For more, see "Caging Cones: Investing in a Future for Whitebark Pine" by Catherine Caruso (USFS PNW Office of Communications and Community Engagement) here: yournorthwestforests.org/2018/09/11/caging-cones-investin... Photo by: Josh Bronson Date: July 26, 2018 Credit: USDA Forest...
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Jerry Barnes, Bohun Kinloch and Richard Sniezko in front of Champion Mine. 2003 Rustbusters meeting. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Additional information from Jerry Barnes: "The Champion Mine ‘gang’: Jerry Barnes, Bro Kinloch, Richard Sniezko at the Champion Mine site on the Cottage Grove Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest – where major gene resistance in western white pine was first documented based on initial work by Jerry and followed up by Bro and Richard (story documented...
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Sawfly defoliation of knobcone pine stand. Deer Creek Drainage, Diamond Lake Ranger District, Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. Note: Same date/place as ID-125, but the year is 1963. Photo by: Robert E. Dolph Date: July 23, 1964 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection. Source: Division of Timber Management, Insect and Disease Control Branch Collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon. Image: ID-127 Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region...
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Frames for western white pine progeny blister rust inoculation program. Dorena Project Site - late 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1967 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena...
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Beginning construction of the new office. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: September 23, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease...
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Surviving western white pine at Grass Creek trial site planted in about 1971. Rustbusters 2003 field trip. Umpqua National Forest, Oregon. For more about the Grass Creek test site see: Sniezko, R. A., Kinloch Jr, B. B., Bower, A. D., Danchok, R. S., Linn, J. M., & Kegley, A. J. (2004). Field resistance to Cronartium ribicola in full-sib families of Pinus monticola in Oregon. Breeding and genetic resources of five-needle pines: growth, adaptability, and pest resistance. USDA Forest Service...
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Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) employee working with seed orchard irrigation pipe. Dorena Project in the 1960s. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo and caption by: Jerry Barnes Date: c.1965 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: Gerald Barnes collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in...
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Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Richard Sniezko Date: July 6, 2005 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and...
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Kim Bates. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon. Photo by: Unknown Date: c.2003 Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, Umpqua National Forest, Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Source: DRGC digital photo collection; courtesy Richard Sniezko, Cottage Grove, Oregon. Dorena Genetic Resource Center (DGRC) is the USDA Forest Service's regional service center for genetics in the Pacific Northwest Region. Dorena houses disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and...
Topics: foresthealthprotection, usda, stateandprivateforestry, dorenatreeimprovementcenter, Dorena Genetic...
