Schmieding, S.; Swanson, F. 2021. Historical Records of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Program, 1947 to present Long-Term Ecological Research Andrews Forest LTER Site. [Database]. Available: https://andrewsforest-stage.forestry.oregonstate.edu/data/fsdb-data-catalog/SS008 Accessed 2026-05-10.

This database contains historical records of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (a U.S. Forest Service property near Blue River, OR, within the Willamette National Forest) consisting of three parts: 1.) inventory of the physical records and information about locating those physical records and three collections of digital records created from the physical records: 2.) records concerning the forest itself (HJATheForest), and 3.) records of the personal history of H.J. Andrews (HJATheMan).

Temporal coverage: 1919-06-13 to 1960-11-25

Geographic coverage: The main geographic focus is the Andrews Forest and satellite research areas including Research Natural Areas, the forest vegetation plot network extending across the region, programmatically-related experimental watershed sites at Coyote Creek/South Umpqua Experimental Forest and Fox Creek / Bull Run Experimental Watersheds (East of Portland). Materials concerning the LTER network, NADP, and other research and monitoring programs have national applications, and the International LTER Network and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Network have global outreach.

Spatial coverage:

Bounds: W -122.26172200, E -122.10084700, N 44.28196400, S 44.19770400

• While NSF has held the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and other LTER programs to high standards of management of digital research data quality and access, management of administrative program records on both the Forest Service and OSU sides has been lacking.

Title: Long-Term Ecological Research

• Michael P. Nelson
  Role: Principal Investigator
  Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society; 201K Richarson Hall; College of Forestry; Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331
  Phone: 541-737-9221
  Email: mpnelson@oregonstate.edu
  URL: http://www.michaelpnelson.com
• Frederick J. Swanson
  Role: Other Researcher
  USDA Forest Service;Pacific NW Research Station;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: (541) 750-7355
  Email: fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu
• Sherri L. Johnson
  Role: Other Researcher
  US Forest Service ;Pacific NW Research Station ;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: 541-758-7771
  Email: sherri.johnson2@usda.gov, sherri.johnson@oregonstate.edu
  URL: https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/profile.php?alias=sherrijohnson
• Donald L. Henshaw
  Role: Other Researcher
  Pacific Northwest Research Station; Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab; 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, Oregon, 97331
  Email: hja_admin@fsl.orst.edu
• Mark E. Harmon
  Role: Other Researcher
  Oregon State University;Dept. of Forest Science;321 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752, USA
  Phone: (541) 737-8455, (978) 724-0045 ext 223
  Email: mark.harmon@oregonstate.edu
  URL: http://fes.forestry.oregonstate.edu/people?path=people/harmon-mark
• Lina DiGregorio
  Role: Other Researcher
  Oregon State University;Dept. of Forest Science;201K Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752, USA
  Phone: 541-737-8480
  Email: Lina.DiGregorio@oregonstate.edu
• Samuel Schmieding
  Role: Creator
  Email: historiador_ambiental@yahoo.com
• Frederick J. Swanson
  Role: Creator
  USDA Forest Service;Pacific NW Research Station;3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA
  Phone: (541) 750-7355
  Email: fred.swanson@oregonstate.edu

• Information Manager
  Andrews Forest LTER Program, US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR, 97331
  Email: hjaweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/

• Andrews Forest LTER Site
  Role: Publisher
  Forest Ecosystems and Society Department in Forestry, Oregon State University, 201K Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-5752
  Phone: (541) 737-8480
  Email: lterweb@fsl.orst.edu
  URL: http://andrewsforest.oregonstate.edu/

This database contains historical records of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (a U.S. Forest Service property near Blue River, OR, within the Willamette National Forest) consisting of three parts: 1.) inventory of the physical records and information about locating those physical records and three collections of digital records created from the physical records: 2.) records concerning the forest itself (HJATheForest), and 3.) records of the personal history of H.J. Andrews (HJATheMan). While NSF has held the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and other LTER programs to high standards of management of digital research data quality and access, management of administrative program records on both the Forest Service and OSU sides has been lacking. Field Methods - SS008

Purpose: While NSF has held the Andrews Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and other LTER programs to high standards of management of digital research data quality and access, management of administrative program records on both the Forest Service and OSU sides has been lacking.

Method Steps

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• LTER controlled vocabulary: history (theme)
• Andrews Experimental Forest site thesaurus: Adaptive Management Areas (AMA) (theme), Cascade Center for Ecosystem Management (CCEM) (theme), Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) (theme), International Biological Program (IBP) (theme), Research Natural Areas (RNA) (theme), information management (theme)

No taxonomic hierarchy listed in this EML file.

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Data Use Agreement:

The re-use of scientific data has the potential to greatly increase communication, collaboration and synthesis within and among disciplines, and thus is fostered, supported and encouraged. This Data Set is released under the Creative Commons license CC BY "Attribution" (see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Creative Commons license CC BY - Attribution is a license that allows others to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work (even commercially), as long as you are credited for the original creation. This license accommodates maximum dissemination and use of licensed materials.

It is considered professional conduct and an ethical obligation to acknowledge the work of other scientists. The Data User is asked to provide attribution of the original work if this data package is shared in whole or by individual parts or used in the derivation of other products. A recommended citation is provided for each Data Set in the Andrews LTER data catalog (see: http://andlter.forestry.oregonstate.edu/data/catalog/datacatalog.aspx). A generic citation is also provided for this Data Set on the website https://portal.edirepository.org in the summary metadata page. Data Users are thus strongly encouraged to consider consultation, collaboration and/or co-authorship with the Data Set Creator.

While substantial efforts are made to ensure the accuracy of data and associated documentation, complete accuracy of data sets cannot be guaranteed and all data are made available "as is." The Data User should be aware, however, that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data.

General acknowledgement: Data were provided by the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest research program, funded by the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research Program (DEB 2025755), US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, and Oregon State University. Access to digitized records of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest physical historical records (entity 2) may be available by request.

License: N/A

Maintenance update frequency: continually

Description

• An update history is logged and maintained with each new version of every dataset.

Change History

• Version1 (2017-12-07)
  Study code and preliminary metadata established
• Version2 (2021-02-23)
  Imported metadata from XLS file (move_xls) and created structures for three entities. Only entity 3 is ready at this time. Added sub_entity to serve an external xlsx file (otherEntity).