Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility

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United States of America - Washington - Carson

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BGCI Member: No

About the Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility

Although the Wind River Experimental Forest was not established until 1932, Forest Service research in the area began at least 20 years earlier. Thornton T. Munger, who later became the first director of the Pacific Northwest Research Station, arrived in 1909 and proceeded to establish a tree nursery, an arboretum, the first Douglas-fir growth-and-yield plots, and an important tree heredity study. Munger also established the Wind River Research Natural Area (RNA), later to be named after him, in 1926. The Wind River was set up as two divisions, Panther Creek and Trout Creek. Early on, the forest became the central area for studying the great Douglas-fir forests of the Pacific Northwest, and many of the silvicultural practices for managing these forests were developed there. Silvicultural studies continued following World War II and into the 1960s, though many other areas served as important sites for the study of Douglas-fir forests. In the 1980s research at Wind River was rekindled with an increase in ecosystem studies and old-growth/wildlife habitat research. In 1994, the Wind River Canopy Crane was established in the T. T. Munger RNA.

Main Address:
Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility
Gifford Pinchot National Forest
1262 Hemlock Road
Carson
Washington 98610 United States of America

Telephone: (541) 758-7798
Fax: (541) 758-7760
URL: www.fs.fed.us/pnw/exforests/wind-river/index.shtml
Primary Email: rick.meinzer@oregonstate.edu

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Ken Bible, Site Director
    Curator's Name: Jerry Franklin, Program Director
    Plant Records Officer's Name: Frederick Meinzer, Research Ecologist and Research Team Leader

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: No
    Status: Satellite: No
  • Date founded: 1912
  • Physical Data
  • Latitude: 45.7992740
    Longitude: -121.9345260
    Annual Rainfall: 2540 mm
    Altitude: 0.00 Metres

Features and Facilities

  • Arboretum: Yes
  • Open to public: Yes

Plant Collections

  • Special Collections:38 species of Pinus, 10 species of Larix, 16 species of Picea, 24 species of Abies, smaller collections of Tsuga, Cedrus, Sequoia.

Conservation Programmes

Research Programmes

Education Programmes