{"id":418,"date":"2016-09-01T17:59:22","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/?p=418"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:37:39","slug":"hopkins-forest-of-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/2016\/09\/01\/hopkins-forest-of-arts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins Forest of Arts works for forestry future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-400\" style=\"margin: 4px 20px 7px 0px;border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/files\/2016\/08\/harpist.jpg\" alt=\"Hopkins Forest of Arts\" width=\"350\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2016\/08\/harpist.jpg 350w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/1828\/files\/2016\/08\/harpist-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrationforest.org\/\">The Hopkins Demonstration Forest<\/a> is a 140-acre, privately-owned forest and operating tree farm where family woodland owners and the public can learn about forest management. The forest is operated by Forests Forever, Inc., a nonprofit organization with the mission \u201cto promote science-based education to enhance understanding of and appreciation for the complexities and benefits of woodland management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Although the forest is in Oregon City and part of the Portland metropolitan area, it is still a challenge to attract new audiences and a larger cross-section of society to experience and learn from the forest\u2019s example of sustainable forestry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In response, Hopkins Forest of Arts was launched in 2013 as a collaboration between Forests Forever, Inc., Three Rivers Artists Guild, and <a href=\"http:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/\">Oregon State University Extension Service<\/a>. The event,\u00a0led by OSU Extension faculty with the help of volunteers from both the arts and forestry communities, brings together music, environmental interests\u00a0and art that is created from, in or about the forest\u2014all while offering educational experiences about forest management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In 2014, OSU Extension Forester Glenn Ahrens engaged faculty and students from <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalarts.oregonstate.edu\/\">OSU\u2019s College of Liberal Arts<\/a> to participate in the Forest of Arts event. The collaboration resulted in a \u201cCreative Forest\u201d program in 2015 that inspired five OSU Liberal Arts faculty and 36 OSU art and music students to think creatively about the forest and its meanings to the communities, families and people who live in and are supported by forests. Find out more about the Hopkins Demonstration Forest at <i><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrationforest.org\/\">demonstrationforest.org<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OSU works to improve the understanding of sustainable forests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[717010,196231],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016","category-subfeatures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/outreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}