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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Oklahoma State forestry researcher awarded national grant to study Cross Timbers region
A researcher with Oklahoma State University’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources has been awarded a $499,317 National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant involving the economics of forest management in the Cross Timbers region of the southern Great Plains.

In Oklahoma, the region is significant: all of Seminole, Pottawatomie and Okfuskee counties; large parts of Osage, Lincoln, Creek, Oklahoma, Cleveland, Pontotoc, Hughes, McIntosh and Okmulgee counties; and smaller parts of Logan, Garvin, Murray, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wagoner and Washington counties.

“Despite its ecological significance and importance to people living within the Cross Timbers, there is little information about the dynamics of the mostly privately owned forested areas and the social factors that motivate individual owners for their management,” said Omkar Joshi, an assistant professor of forest economics in the OSU Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management “Basically, the region starts in southeastern Kansas and cuts through Oklahoma down to the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex in Texas.”

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