Teaching on the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest
As part of Utah State Universities land grant mission, teaching, research, and demonstration and outreach has always been the goal for what should happen on the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest. As early as the 1940s, Doc Daniel would take students to the ‘School Forest’ as part of the annual summer camp experience. Early decades on the forest student would be engaged in forest measurements, cone counting, and animal trapping, among other things.
To this day many classes from the Quinney College of Natural Resources visit the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest to learn about disturbance ecology and the history of the predominant forest types, forest ecology and silviculture, forest, range and wildlife measurement techniques, and sampling design.
Over the years countless field trips have been conducted in the T.W. Daniel Experimental Forest. Starting in the 1990s, Dr. Long led multiple tours on many topics including goshawk habitat and landscape-scale disturbance processes, aspen decline and lynx habitat, and sagebrush treatments, among others. Most recently, Dr. DeRose and the USFS led a tour of the active management that is currently going on as part of the Red Ryder timber sale.