Fitzgerald, Stephen
Fitzgerald, Stephen
Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Professor Emeritus
Department:
Forest Engineering, Resources & Management
Office Location:
8692 Peavy Arboretum Rd. Arboretum
Phone Number:
(541) 737-3562
Website:
Education:
MS, Forest Management, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, 1983
BS, Forest Biology, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, Syracuse, New York, 1979
AAS, Holyoke Community College, Holyoke MA, 1976
Research Areas:
- Silviculture, Fire, Forest Health and Biodiversity
Research Interests:
- Fire Ecology and Restoration of Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems
- Early Seral Forest Habitat
- Silviculture Systems
- Forest Resiliency
Bio:
I conduct educational programs to a wide variety of audiences on reforestation, thinning, maintaining healthy forests, backyard woodlands, stand density management, fire and fire management and a variety of other topics. My areas of interest and research include: uneven-aged management of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests; fire ecology and fire management; prescribed burning; forest health and resiliency; post-fire regeneration; regeneration processes; and thinning methods.
Advising
Graduate Major Advisor
Graduate Students:
Selected Publications:
- Rau, A., Fitzgerald, S.A., Davis, E.J., Berger, C. (2022). Prescribed Fire Basics: Smoke Management. EM 9342. Oregon State University Extension Service, Corvallis, OR. 6 p.
- Stokely, T.D., Kormann, U.G., Verschuyl, J., Kroll, A.J., Frey, D.W., Harris, S.H., Mainwaring, D.B., Maguire, D., Hatten, J.A., Rivers, J.W., Fitzgerald, S.A., Betts, M.G. (2022). Experimental evaluation of herbicide use on biodiversity, ecosystem services and timber production trade-offs in forest plantation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 59(1), 52-66. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13936.
- Oester, P., and S.A. Fitzgerald. 2020. Enhancing reforestation success in the Inland Northwest, PNW 520. Oregon State University Extension Service, Corvallis, OR. 20 p.
- Riddell, A., Fitzgerald, S.A., Qi, C. and Strimbu, B.M. (2020). Classification strategies for unbalanced binary maps: finding Ponderosa Pine (Pinus Ponderosa) in the Willamette Valley. Remote Sensing, 12(20), 3325.
- Grand, L., Berger, C. A., Fitzgerald, S. A., Leavell, D. M. (2019). Fire FAQs—Who owns Oregon's forests, and how does that matter when it comes to fire? EM 9228. Corvallis, OR: Extension and Experiment Station Communications. 2 p.
- Fitzgerald, S., Berger, C. A., Leavell, D. M. (2019). What is forest fuel, and what are fuel treatments? EM 9230. Corvallis, OR:. 2 p.
- Green, P., Chung, W., Leshchinsky, B. A., Belart, F., Sessions, J., Fitzgerald, S. A., Wimer, J. A., Cushing, T., Garland, J. 2019. Insight into the Productivity, Cost and Soil Impacts of Cable-assisted Harvester- forwarder Thinning in Western Oregon. Forest Science
- Garland, J., Belart, F., Crawford, R., W., Cushing, T., Fitzgerald, S. A., Green, P., Kincl, L., Leshchinsky, B. A., Morrissette, B. A., Sessions, J., Wimer, J. A. 2019. Safety in steep slope logging operations. Journal of Agromedicine, 24(2), 138-145.
- Woolley, T., Shaw, D. C., Hollingsworth, L. T., Agne, M. C., Fitzgerald, S. A., Eglitis, A., Kurth, L. 2019. Beyond red crowns: complex changes in surface and crown fuels and their interaction 32 years following mountain pine beetle epidemics in south-central Oregon, USA. Springer Open, 15(4), 17.
- Fitzgerald, S., Berger, C., Grand, L., Leavell, D. (2018). Fire FAQS--Salvage cutting: What are the effects on fire behavior and severity? EM 9195. Oregon State University Extension Service, Corvallis, OR. 2 p.