Established in 2005 through a generous donation by
the Westhammer Foundation, the Cascade Forest Research
Center sits on 80 secluded acres of private
land in the beautiful Oregon coastal mountain range, surrounded
on all sides by a combination of BLM and Forest Service land.
The Center
hosts a variety of graduate-level research teams - many
affiliated with prestigious universities from the United States
and around the world. The Center has also always remained open
to participation from private commercial and non-commercial
entities whose goals and purposes are consistent with the
mission statement of the Cascade Forest Research Center. The
Center is a privately owned facility.
Thanks
primarily to the Westhammer Foundation's generous donation, as supplemented
by a vigorous and on-going fundraising and endowment campaign, the Cascade Forest Research
Center has been outfitted with some of the most advanced scientific
testing equipment currently available.
The
majority of the building houses several large laboratories and
workrooms. Located towards the back of the building are a
handful of sleeping areas, a kitchen, a game room and swimming pool. An
expansive basement with convenient access to the work areas
holds the
larger equipment and supplies.
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The
primary research team at the Cascade Forest Research Center is
Dr. Mortimer Kelly's Forest Ecology group, made up of three
graduate students and two college interns.
Dr. Kelly
and his team are the only ones to work at the center full time,
and have currently begun the daunting task of creating a large
scale forest grid around the center and collecting various
organic samples from each section.
A small
Geology team and an Animal Sciences team also utilize the facility
on a part time and seasonal basis, although both will be absent
from 2008-2010 due to fieldwork in Canada and Peru.
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The
Cascade Forest Research Center is located down an unmarked
gravel road off Highway 6 near the Trask River. It is not accessible
to the public.
Correspondence
with the center is currently only available via email. The center is not currently hiring or accepting
applications for research or interns. No public or private tours
are available at this time.
Thank you
for visiting our website and feel free to browse our pages. New
field notes, publications and multimedia are uploaded as
they become available.
