Video Library
The Oregon Forest Resources Institute produces a wide variety of educational videos covering a range of topics related to Oregon forests, forest management and forest products.
A selection of OFRI videos and educational advertising can be viewed below. These and other videos are also posted on OFRI’s YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/user/oregonforests.
Find Your Path: Mill Operator
Lead sawyer Fred Barklow shows what it’s like to work in one of today’s high-tech forest products mills in Riddle...
Find Your Path: Forest Engineer
Travel into the woods with Mary Castle of Molalla, Ore., as she shows what it’s like to be a forest engineer. She...
Find Your Path: Field Forester
Joe Newton shows what it’s like to be a field forester. He spends most of his time outdoors, helping forest landowner...
Find Your Path: Logging Crew
Kirk Luoto takes us out with a hardworking logging crew and explains what it’s like to be a logger and what’s...
The Oregon Way: Protecting Fish Habitat
Oregon’s unique, steady approach to preserving and improving habitat in forest streams ...
Educational Advertising: View
Oregon’s working forests affect many aspects of our society. From our clean drinking water to our social services...
Educational Advertising: Bob and Kirk on Water
Oregon has strong laws that protect drinking water and fish habitat. Working forest landowners and forest operators...
Educational Advertising: Amazing
Oregon’s forests provide us with all kinds of environmental, social and economic values, thanks in large part to the...
Powered by Oregon: Wood Biomass
Sawdust, chips and other residual material left over from logging, mill processing ...
Forest Fact Break: Wood Products
This 90-second animated video looks at wood products. We use trees for all kinds of daily items. Some are pretty...
Forest Fact Break: Sustainability
This 90-second animated video looks at forest sustainability. How do we protect our forests for the future, while...
Forest Fact Break: Forest Types
This 90-second animated video looks at forest types in Oregon. It offers a look at the top five forest types in...
Forest Fact Break: Fire Safety
This 90-second animated video looks at fire safety. People cause a lot of fires in our forests. Being safe with fire...
Forest Fact Break: Ecosystems
This 90-second animated video looks at forest ecosystems. An ecosystem is made up of all the living and non-living...
Talk About Trees
Talk About Trees is a classroom program supported by OFRI that uses forest artifacts, displays and hands-on activities t
Educational Advertising: Signs
Each year in Oregon, forest landowners plant 30 million to 40 million tree seedlings of many species to replace those...
Educational Advertising: The 4 R’s
“Reduce, reuse and recycle” is an important part of an environmentally conscious lifestyle. In Oregon, we have a...
Oregon Forests and Water
An estimated 2.8 million Oregonians rely on water that comes from forested landscapes. The Oregon Forest Resources...
Forest Fact Break: Carbon Capture
This 90-second animated video looks at carbon capture, also called carbon sequestration. Trees pull carbon out of...
Forest Fact Break: Forest Management
This two-minute animated video answers the question, "What the heck is forest management?" Oregon forests are managed...