SILVAH-OAK: ensuring adoption by engaging users in the full cycle of forest research

Susan L. Stout; Patrick Brose; Kurt W. Gottschalk; Gary Miller; Peter Knopp; Gary Rutherford; Mark Deibler; Gary Frank; Gary Gilmore

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SILVAH-OAK: ensuring adoption by engaging users in the full cycle of forest research

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Susan L. Stout, Patrick Brose, Kurt W. Gottschalk, Gary Miller, Peter Knopp, Gary Rutherford, Mark Deibler, Gary Frank, Gary Gilmore

Year:

2007

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Miner, Cynthia; Jacobs, Ruth; Dykstra, Dennis; Bittner, Becky, eds. 2007. Proceedings: international conference on transfer of forest science knowledge and technology. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-726. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 229-238.

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Abstract

Recent Forest Service Research and Development (FS R&D) logic modeling efforts focused on program delivery stated that an important precondition for effective science delivery was the engagement of users and partners throughout the full research and development cycle. The ongoing partnership among the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Bureau of Forestry, FS R&D, and Pennsylvania State University, focused on oak (Quercus spp.) regeneration, provides a case study of this engagement and associated successful science program delivery. This paper describes the engagement, diffusion, adoption, and expanded adoption phases of the partnership, which has changed both practice and research.

Keywords

forest research, oak regeneration, program delivery, knowledge diffusion, knowledge adoption

Citation

Stout, Susan L.; Brose, Pat; Gottschalk, Kurt; Miller, Gary; Knopp, Pete; Rutherford, Gary; Deibler, Mark; Frank, Gary; Gilmore, Gary. 2007. SILVAH-OAK: ensuring adoption by engaging users in the full cycle of forest research. In: Miner, Cynthia; Jacobs, Ruth; Dykstra, Dennis; Bittner, Becky, eds. 2007. Proceedings: international conference on transfer of forest science knowledge and technology. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-726. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: 229-238.