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Hickerson farm Port Orford cedar root disease resistance validation planting.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: June 9, 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 Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Clark's nutcracker on a whitebark pine snag. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: July 25, 2001
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 plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
(Photos by Karl Weisel)
Baumholder and Wiesbaden employees were honored for their resource management contributions Sept. 5.
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Jodie Morrison harvesting Port Orford cedar seed cones. Dorena Genetic Resource Center. Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: September 17, 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 plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Hickerson farm Port Orford cedar root disease resistance validation planting.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: June 9, 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 Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Krausirpe, Gracias a Dios, Honduras, February 1992
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For a few months in early 1992, I lived with the Tawahka Indians, studying their culture, resource management practices, agricultural and fishing techniques. I learned about the challenges faced by this small indigenous group from outside forces beyond their control. Mostly though, I grew to love and appreciate these gentle and welcoming people who accepted me into their homes and lives.
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The Tawahka, an indigenous group of approximately 1,500, live in the middle Río Patuca region of La Mosquitia in northeastern Honduras. Up until the early 17th century, they originally lived on the northern Caribbean coast but were forced inland by the Miskito Indians. There, the Tawahka adopted new subsistence patterns, primarily hunting, fishing and swidden agriculture, which historically have had minimal negative impact on the region’s biodiversity and ecological integrity.
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Although the Tawahka have been geographically isolated for centuries they continue to struggle with the challenge many indigenous peoples face: how to maintain the values and cultural practices that make them unique while resisting outside threats to the tropical rain forest ecology and their natural resource management practices. The Tawahka Asangni Biosphere Reserve (TABR), formally designated in 2002, was meant to curtail outside impacts on the Tawahka. Sadly, pressure from wealthy cattle ranchers, environmental refugees, drug traffickers, and of course, climate change continues to threaten the Tawahka’s culture and livelihood, as well as the forest’s stunning natural beauty. And to add insult to injury, the Covid-19 pandemic has the potential to wreak havoc with indigenous populations.
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Protected areas such as the TABR are meant to shield biodiversity as well as the native human populations. Acknowledging that human activities are intertwined with the natural world is crucial to the long-term management of protected areas. Indeed, author Mark Dowie ("Conservation Refugees; The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples") speaking of the tension between conservationists and local or indigenous populations says, "...when conservationists find unprotected land that has high biological diversity, it's because there are people living there who possess traditional ecological knowledge that protects not only biological diversity but cultural diversity.”
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Though the Tawahka were full partners in my Environmental Studies thesis research (they helped design study questions, assisted in gathering data, and were given results of my work), I took so much more from the experience. I still owe them a debt of gratitude that I hope to repay someday.
A prescribed burn was conducted on 61 acres in the Guana peninsula on March 2021 by staff and crews from Faver-Dykes State Park and Flagler County. Last burned in 2013, the burned area is comprised of large open mesic flatwoods and maritime hammock with palmetto thickets. Many plants and animals have evolved to depend on periodic fires. Some trees rely on fires for germination, while some animals need fire for their food source to flourish.
A prescribed burn was conducted on 61 acres in the Guana peninsula on March 2021 by staff and crews from Faver-Dykes State Park and Flagler County. Last burned in 2013, the burned area is comprised of large open mesic flatwoods and maritime hammock with palmetto thickets.
Dean Davis, R5 technician from Happy Camp on fieldtrip. 2003 Rustbusters meeting. Dorena Genetic Resource Center and the 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 resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program.
To learn more about the history of the DGRC, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Krausirpe, Gracias a Dios, Honduras, February 1993
For a few months in early 1992, I lived with the Tawahka Indians, studying their culture, resource management practices, agricultural and fishing techniques. I learned about the challenges faced by this small indigenous group from outside forces beyond their control. Mostly though, I grew to love and appreciate these gentle and welcoming people who accepted me into their homes and lives.
.
The Tawahka, an indigenous group of approximately 1,500, live in the middle Río Patuca region of La Mosquitia in northeastern Honduras. Up until the early 17th century, they originally lived on the northern Caribbean coast but were forced inland by the Miskito Indians. There, the Tawahka adopted new subsistence patterns, primarily hunting, fishing and swidden agriculture, which historically have had minimal negative impact on the region’s biodiversity and ecological integrity.
.
Although the Tawahka have been geographically isolated for centuries they continue to struggle with the challenge many indigenous peoples face: how to maintain the values and cultural practices that make them unique while resisting outside threats to the tropical rain forest ecology and their natural resource management practices. The Tawahka Asangni Biosphere Reserve (TABR), formally designated in 2002, was meant to curtail outside impacts on the Tawahka. Sadly, pressure from wealthy cattle ranchers, environmental refugees, drug traffickers, and of course, climate change continues to threaten the Tawahka’s culture and livelihood, as well as the forest’s stunning natural beauty. And to add insult to injury, the Covid-19 pandemic has the potential to wreak havoc with indigenous populations.
.
Protected areas such as the TABR are meant to shield biodiversity as well as the native human populations. Acknowledging that human activities are intertwined with the natural world is crucial to the long-term management of protected areas. Indeed, author Mark Dowie ("Conservation Refugees; The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples") speaking of the tension between conservationists and local or indigenous populations says, "...when conservationists find unprotected land that has high biological diversity, it's because there are people living there who possess traditional ecological knowledge that protects not only biological diversity but cultural diversity.”
.
Though the Tawahka were full partners in my Environmental Studies thesis research (they helped design study questions, assisted in gathering data, and were given results of my work), I took so much more from the experience. I still owe them a debt of gratitude that I hope to repay someday.
Seed orchard. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1968
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Division of Timber Management, Insect and Disease Control Branch print collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
For more about the Dorena Genetic Resource Center, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Tree mortality due to white pine blister rust.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: c.2000
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 disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Seed orchard. Dorena Genetic Resource Center, Cottage Grove, Oregon.
Photo by: Unknown
Date: 1968
Credit: USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection.
Source: Division of Timber Management, Insect and Disease Control Branch print collection; Regional Office, Portland, Oregon.
For more about the Dorena Genetic Resource Center, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth
Aspirating spores from a white pine blister rust canker.
Photo by: Richard Sniezko
Date: c.2000
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 disease resistance breeding programs for five-needled pines and Port-Orford-cedar, a native plant development program, and the National Tree Climbing Program. For additional photos of the DGRC program, see: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/resourcemanageme...
Image provided by USDA Forest Service, Region 6, State and Private Forestry, Forest Health Protection: www.fs.usda.gov/main/r6/forest-grasslandhealth