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The Station was founded on July 1, 1926, as the California Forest Experiment Station. Through time, PSW has ...
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| 1930's |
- Persued use of fire for fuel reduction in the West.
- Inventoried and mapped the vegetation of California.
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| 1940's |
- Pioneered work on forest genetics and tree breeding.
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| 1950's |
- Developed air tankers and fire retardants for firefighting.
- Developed the rest-rotation grazing system.
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| 1960's |
- Developed and tested alternatives to DDT for forest pest management.
- Developed the Incident Command System for firefighting.
- Identified ozone as cause of Western forest decline.
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| 1970's |
- Developed electrophoresis (startch gel) genetic methods for forestry use.
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- Greatly increased pine-seed collection and tree-planting survival by designation of seed zones.
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| 1980's |
- Provided scientific basis leading to recovery of the California Condor.
- Investigated ohia decline.
- Identified atmospheric nitrogen impacts on water quality and western ecosystems.
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| 1990's |
- Completed the California Spotted Owl Technical Assessment.
- Completed the Sacramento Urban Forest Ecosystem Report.
- Completed the Sierra Nevada Ecoystem Project and a final report published.
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| 2000 |
- Developed software for assessing relative merits of alternatives for fighting escaped wildfires.
- Started research on the cause, impacts, and mitigation of new forest disease -- Sudden Oak Death.
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