The Edmund Hayes Professorship in Silviculture Alternatives
Wishing to memorialize their father and honor his life-long interest in forests, the Hayes family established the Edmund Hayes Professorship in Silviculture Alternatives in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University. Edmund "Ned" Hayes Jr. and his siblings, Frederick Hayes, Philip Hayes, and Cornelia Hayes Stevens, have created guidelines so the professorship will support efforts to restore and manage forests, and may eventually lead to new forestry practices.
Their father, Edmund Hayes, was an early pioneer in the forest industry who became a top executive at Weyerhaeuser and an advocate for reforestation.
"My father was always concerned about the forest resource in Oregon," Ned Hayes says. "He was interested in how it's used and how the forest is perpetuated." The chair preserves Edmund Hayes's belief in the values of education and silviculture-the science and art of growing trees.
"The professorship fit with what we wanted to do to memorialize our father and his interest in forest perpetuation. There's a lot to be known yet about growing trees and sustaining forests. As a family, we're pleased to develop this association with OSU. We're looking forward to seeing the results of the research."
Douglas Alan Maguire
Douglas Alan Maguire was named the Edmund Hayes Professor of Silviculture Alternatives in 2002. Maguire has taught and conducted research at Oregon State University since 1996. Prior to arriving at OSU, Maguire was a professor the silviculture project leader at University of Washington at Seattle from 1986 to 1993.
Maguire stands out in his field as a devoted teacher. In 1997 he won the Aufderheide Award for Best Teacher in the OSU College of Forestry and in 1989, the Burlington Northern Award for Excellence in Teaching at the University of Washington.
Currently, Professor Maguire is running a number of projects. While focusing on the growth impact of the Swiss needle cast, he is also studying natural regeneration in two-tiered ponderosa pine forests, stand structure growth and growth efficiency of mixed conifer forests and the response of plant and animal taxa to timber harvests. He is also examining several facets of intensive plantation silviculture, including silvicultural influences on crown development and wood quality.
Professor Maguire has also conducted several projects overseas. In 1997, he was a Forest Biometrics Consultant in West Bengal, India. In 1988, he spent time in Pakistan, collecting data for a growth and yield study of Acacia nilotica plantations on the plains of the Indus River. Maguire is an internationally requested lecturer in places such as Brisbane, Australia; Seoul, Korea; and Davos, Switzerland.
As a Hayes Professor of Silviculture, Maguire plans to build a better base of information on managing uneven-aged and two-aged stands of Douglas-fir and on silvicultural options for mixed-species stands.
