Skamania Meeting a Success House Letter to Senate on Forestry Bills Governors Request HFRA Designations BLM O&C Budget Efforts Jazz Project to go Forward AFRC Argues Planning Rule Case DNR Timber Sales Challenged SW Oregon Update ESA Hearing Monument Designation Transparency Bill Blue Mountain Plan Comment Period Extended Federal Timber Purchasers to Meet Connaughton to […]
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Forest Products Industry Responds to BLM Draft Resource Management Plans
Tom Partin, President of the American Forest Resource Council issued the following statement on the release of the BLM’s draft Resource Management Plans for six districts in Western Oregon encompassing over 2.5 million acres of BLM-managed forestland, including the Oregon & California (O&C) Grant Lands.
March 2014 Newsletter
Hearing on O&C, Barrasso Bills Barrasso Bill Introduced Farm Bill Signed Court Issues New Order on Survey & Manage Lawsuit Seeks Additional Volume Kelsey Peak Objection Bonnie Announces Partnership Projects Stewardship Contract Seminar Forest Management a Priority Hastings to Retire Milt Herbert Honored 2014 Annual Meeting Eco-Terrorist Sentenced
February 2014 Newsletter
Hearing on O&C, Barrasso Bills Barrasso Bill Introduced Farm Bill Signed Court Issues New Order on Survey & Manage Lawsuit Seeks Additional Volume Kelsey Peak Objection Bonnie Announces Partnership Projects Stewardship Contract Seminar Forest Management a Priority Hastings to Retire Milt Herbert Honored 2014 Annual Meeting Eco-Terrorist Sentenced
January 2014 Newsletter
Omnibus Spending Bill Passes AFRC Wins Ruling in South George Wild Olympics Wilderness Legislation Wyden-Crapo Wildfire Funding Bill County Payments Hearing SW Oregon Salvage Update BLM Regeneration & the Murrelet Collins Company Honored Federal Forests Work Plan Adopted O&C Bill Hearing 2014 Annual Meeting
Statement on Wild Olympics Proposal
The forest products industry comments on the reintroduction of “Wild Olympics” Proposal by Washington Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Derek Kilmer.
December 2013 Newsletter
ENR Markup of Key Forestry Titles No O&C Data Yet Baucus to China AFRC Files Amicus Brief Temporary Flooding Ruled a Taking N. California FY13 Target Accomplishments House Looks at ESA Again Committee Considers Nominations
Industry Responds to Likely Senate Committee Passage of Wyden Eastside Legislation
Tom Partin, President of the American Forest Resource Council, issued the following statement regarding the likely passage of the “Oregon Eastside Forest Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act of 2013” (S. 1301) by Senator Ron Wyden’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, December 19.
November 2013 Newsletter
Wyden O&C Legislation Senate Constituent and Colleague Letters Committee Examines Budgets/Wildfire Southwest Oregon Fire Salvage D-Bug Project Update Challenged Thinning Project Charred OESF Draft EIS Released Boise Innovative Appeal Resolution Forest Service FY13 Timber Sales Results Hearing on Public Lands Bills Appropriations Committee Reshuffling BLM Hosts Community Listening Sessions
Wyden Bill – Next Step in O&C Land Discussions
On November 26, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden released his long-awaited legislative proposal for reforming the management of Western Oregon’s O&C forest lands. It follows the recent passage of the bipartisan O&C Trust, Conservation and Jobs Act resulting from a compromise forged by Congressmen Peter DeFazio, Greg Walden, and Kurt Schrader.