Miscellaneous Publication
Yes, and the library has many of the reports produced by these agencies. If not called a forest service, they may be a "ministry" of department within a ministry in the government. You can get an overview from the FAO Forestry "Country Profiles." Publications from these organization will generally be "findable" in the catalog using a SUBJECT search for:
Forests and Forestry--[insert country name]-[periodicals]
The Forest Service has Research Stations throughout the U.S. The full names of these stations and their abbreviations are listed at the end of this bulletin. Some earlier Stations are now closed, or have merged with other stations. Links to the U. S. Forest Service Research Units sites on the web are shown at the end of this guide. The forestry librarian at Cal Poly Humboldt University provides an excellent description of the USFS publications (Forestry & Wildland Resources Research Guide).
Each station issues its own reports series. These reports are received through the library's Government Documents Office and have a Superintendent of Documents "SuDocs" number beginning A13 with initials for the Research Station (PNW, RMRS, SRS, etc.) and for the report series (GTR for General Technical Reports, etc.). These government publications are shelved with the general Forestry collection; to do so, the library has given each of these series a Library of Congress call number beginning with "SD."
Some of these reports are only available to the Library on microfiche and are found in the microforms area on the third floor of The Valley Library using the call numbers given below. Many series are now available electronically as PDF files. In OSU Libraries' Online Catalog (1Search), you will find electronic titles noted as "Internet Resources" with a link to "connect to this file online."
If you are given a title, without a series number, try searching it directly in 1Search. For more recent material you will likely find the call number directly. However, if this fails and you know the series and number, select journals and do a keyword search on the abbreviation for the station (SRS, etc.). This will give you a list of the series published by that station.
Management of the National Forests is divided into ten regions.
