Land and Watershed Management

Genetic and Silvicultural Foundations for Management

Oak Studies

Links to information related to Acorn Production Study

The following links will help you in filling out the survey form or will provide more information about Quercus garryana (Oregon white oak/Garry oak).

Services (Bibliographic and Maps)

For a searchable database of Oregon white oak literature:
http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/olympia/silv/oak-studies/oak-bibliography.shtml

For help in locating your site on a map or air photo, try the following web sites:
http://terraserver.microsoft.com
This site has air photo coverage at 1-m resolution.  Coverage is nearly complete for western Washington, fairly complete for California, but there is only a little coverage for western Oregon or British Columbia.

This site will generate street address maps.  It is especially well-suited to urban sites.
http://www.expediamaps.com

Biology, Ecology and Management

Forest info web page contains forestry and related news and information about the San Juan Islands in Washington. Information on Oregon white oak can be found in the Presettlement Forest section.
http://www.rockisland.com/~tom/

For information on acorn seed biology see:
http://www.nsl.fs.fed.us/Seed Biology and Technology of Quercus.pdf

For descriptive characteristics and habitat information for British Columbia
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/

For information on Quercus garryana in California
http://danr.ucop.edu/ihrmp/oregon.html

For info on effect of water gradient on gas exchange, water use, and physiology:
http://styx.nsci.plu.edu/~dhansen/newhomepage.html

For information about oak culture
http://selectree.calpoly.edu

USDA National Resource Conservation Service (type Oregon white oak in Common Name box)
http://plants.usda.gov

For information on phylogeography
http://academic.reed.edu/biology/professors/kkaroly/quga.html

Identification (Photographs and Taxonomy)

For color photos of Quercus garryana visit:
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/

For additional information about biology, ecology, or management of Quercus garryana visit:
http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/quegar/all.html
or
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/volume_2/quercus/garryana.htm

For descriptive characteristics and photographs
http://www.fw.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/qgarryana.htm

For descriptive characteristics, see Dendrology at Virginia Tech.
http://www.hastingsreserve.org/Resident Web Pages/Koenig Web Pages/AcrnSyncPoster/AcornCountSynch.html

Conservation

For information on Quercus garryana in California
California Oak Foundation

The Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team Page. Canadian efforts to conserve and restore garry oak ecosystems.
www.goert.ca

USDA Forest Service - GenSilv Team
Last Modified: Wednesday, 14 March 2012 at 21:31:35 EDT