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Coos County Decides to File Lawsuit Against BLM Over Coos Bay Wagon Road

4/16/2019

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It is about time the county grew a set and sued the FEDS into submission....Time to separate the CBWR from the O&C Lands as well and it will not happen unless we exert our local authority....Rob T.     
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Coos County
April 16, 2019
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Coos County Litigation


Effective immediately, Coos County is entering into litigation against the U.S. Department of
Interior (DOI), acting by and through the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of the
Interior, David Bernhardt.

The Board of Commissioners voted today in favor of seeking a federal judgment requiring, in part, that the DOI to meet its statutory duties under the 1939 Coos Bay Wagon Road Act (1939 Act). For many years, DOI has failed to convene a committee designed by the 1939 Act to fairly appraise Coos Bay Wagon Road lands. Convening this committee every ten (10) years is an unconditional requirement of the 1939 Act. DOI’s failure has wrought tangible harm and forced the County to make difficult financial decisions.

The County views this lawsuit as a last resort after years of efforts to bring DOI into compliance.  While this litigation continues, Coos County will not provide further comments.  “All we are asking the federal government to do is comply with their own law,” stated Commissioner Robert “Bob” Main. “Since we have been asking them for over six years, we have no other choice than to believe they aren’t listening.”

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
250 No. Baxter Street, Coquille, Oregon 97423
(541) 396-7535
FAX (541) 396-1010 / TDD (800) 735-2900
E-mail: bbrooks@co.coos.or.us
JOHN SWEET
MELISSA CRIBBINS
​ROBERT “BOB” MAIN

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Coos County Press Release on Commissioner Cribbins's Trip to Washington DC

3/8/2018

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Coos County Commissioner Mellissa Cribbins made a trip on the taxpayer’s dime to Washington D.C., and she released this press release.  She uses the same theme healthy, vibrant, and safe communities throughout this bloviating list of her attempted accomplishments.

Remember, as commissioner, she voted against the Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance, so she must not think the Right to Bear Arms makes us safer as a community.  The one subject that she should have addressed further was the Coos Bay Wagon Road land.      
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The US Congress should legally distinguish between the CBWR land and the O&C land.  Then they should designate the county as the legal owner of the property with all legal rights, but she glazed right over that one.    On a scale to one to five, five being best and one being worst, she receives a minus two....Rob T.    
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CRIBBINS TRAVELS TO DC

Coos County Commissioner Melissa Cribbins represented the county’s interests in the nation’s capital during the National Association of Counties’ (NACo) 2018 Legislative Conference, March 3-7, in Washington, D.C. More than 2,000 county officials from across the country demonstrated to Congress and federal officials that the nation’s 3,069 county governments provide the essential building blocks to create healthy, vibrant and safe communities. This includes key public infrastructure, transportation and economic development; creating and sustaining a skilled workforce; ensuring public health and public safety and implementing federal, state and local programs in a cost-effective manner. On March 5, the conference held a rally in support of funding for Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) and responsible forest management at the Capitol Visitor Center joined by a several members of Congress, including Senator Ron Wyden. "NACo's Legislative Conference provides a unique opportunity for counties to exchange best practices and formulate a federal policy agenda to advance our residents' priorities," said Commissioner Cribbins.  "NACo has made significant progress over the past year, and we are positioned to address the challenges ahead.  Counties are on the front lines of keeping our communities healthy, safe, and vibrant."  
 
During the conference, Cribbins met with members of the Oregon delegation and their staff, including Senator Wyden, Senator Merkley, and Representative DeFazio, to talk about issues that matter to Coos County, including forest management, opioid addiction, and flood insurance.  She also met with the Department of the Interior to discuss the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands, and the payment that Coos County receives in lieu of taxes on these lands.  "I'm cautiously optimistic," stated Cribbins.  "I believe that Coos County's interests moved forward on this trip, and I am looking forward to seeing our discussions continue over the next several months."

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ACTION ALERT: Senate Voting to Relinquish Management of Public Lands ~ HR2647

7/11/2016

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Hey Folks,
 
A bad piece of legislation concerning the management of federal forest land has passed the house and is headed to the Senate.  The problem with this legislation is that it ignores the root of the problem and that is federal ownership of state land. 
 
Here is a statement from the Natural Resource committee:  “One year ago tomorrow, the House passed the Resilient Federal Forests Act (H.R. 2647) to address the nation's overgrown, fire-prone federal forests. Since then, 8.5 million acres have been destroyed, including 2.3 million acres this year alone.”
 
The citizens of all 50 states have to call all the Senators on the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry to let them know that the federal government should relinquish all authority and ownership of federal land and allow it to revert back to the prospective county, or state.  
 
The reason Coos County should be very concerned with this bill is that it could allow an Indian tribe the ability to manage federal land in the county, including the O&C lands and the Coos Bay Wagon Road land.  The county would lose money to allow some other entity to manage land we are perfectly capable of managing ourselves.   Plus, these management agreements erode the sovereignty of both our Nation and the Indian Nations….Rob T. 

Link to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry:  
www.agriculture.senate.gov
U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry
328A Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC, 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2035
Fax: (202) 228-2125
 
Link to information on HR2647:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2647/all-info

There are 4 summaries for H.R.2647. View summaries
Passed House amended (07/09/2015)
Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015
TITLE VII--TRIBAL FORESTRY PARTICIPATION AND PROTECTION
(Sec. 701) Interior shall take specified administrative action under the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 within 120 days of receiving a request from an Indian Tribe to enter into an agreement or contract to carry out a project to protect Indian forest land or rangeland (including bordering or adjacent federal land). Interior shall (under current law, may) issue a notice of denial to the Tribe if the request is denied.
(Sec. 702) The Department concerned, at the request of an Indian Tribe, may treat federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act if the federal forest land is located within, or mostly within, a geographic area presenting a feature or involving circumstances principally relevant to that Indian tribe.
The Department concerned and the Tribe, as part of an agreement to treat federal land as Indian forest land, shall:
  • provide for continued public access (with possible exceptions),
  • continue sharing revenue generated by the federal forest land with state and local governments,
  • comply with applicable prohibitions on the export of unprocessed logs harvested from the federal forest land,
  • recognize all right-of way agreements in place on federal forest land before tribal management activities commence; and
  • ensure that all commercial timber removed from the federal forest land is sold on a competitive bid basis.
    (Sec. 703) Interior and USDA may carry out demonstration projects by which federally recognized Indian tribes or tribal organizations may contract to perform administrative, management, and other functions of programs of the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004 through contracts entered into under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.
     
    TITLE VIII--MISCELLANEOUS FOREST MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS
    (Sec. 807) The Northwest Forest Plan Survey and Manage Mitigation Measure Standard and Guidelines shall not apply to any System or public lands.
    (Sec. 808) All of the public land managed by the BLM in the Salem District, Eugene District, Roseburg District, Coos Bay District, Medford District, and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District in Oregon shall be managed pursuant to federal law relating to management of the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands under Interior jurisdiction and classified as timberlands and power-site lands valuable for timber. All of the revenue produced from such lands shall be deposited into the Oregon and California land-grant fund, except any revenue required to be deposited into the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant fund.
    (Sec. 809) Interior shall develop and consider, a reference analysis and two additional alternatives as part of the revisions of the resource management plans for the BLM's Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Roseburg, and Medford Districts and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District.
    This reference analysis shall measure and assume the harvest of the annual growth net of natural mortality for all forested land in the planning area in order to determine the maximum sustained yield capacity of the forested land base and to establish a baseline by which Interior shall measure incremental effects on the sustained yield capacity and environmental impacts from management prescriptions in all other alternatives.
    Interior shall develop and consider:
  • one additional alternative with the goal of maximizing the total carbon benefits from forest storage and wood product storage; and
  • a second additional alternative that produces the greater of 500 million board feet or the annual net growth on the acres classified as timberland, excluding any congressionally reserved areas.
    Interior shall publish the reference analysis and additional alternatives and analyze their environmental and economic consequences in a supplemental draft environmental impact statement.
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Does Advisory Vote Trump a Resolution for Management of the Wagon Road Lands

9/2/2015

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6-36 Measure - Coquille Tribal Forest Plan and Land Transfer Advisory Vote
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It was only an ADVISORY VOTE – which is non-binding.  Vote totals were Yes = 2, 229; No = 12,701. 

Total Voting 14,940 Failed by 85%

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BOC Resolution Supporting Wagon Rd Management 2008
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Vote of a former Coos County Board of Commissioners. 

Total Voting 3 Passed by 100%

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Outsourcing US Land Management to the Indians  

9/1/2015

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September 1, 2015  

Outsourcing US Land Management to the Indians  

Recently, the US House of Representatives passed the Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015 and it has wording buried deep in the bill that would have some serious consequences for the people of Coos County, while fundamentally changing the structure of management for the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.   

The following are some excerpts from federal legislation H.R.2647, Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015, which pertains to the management of the National Forest System and public lands.  The Sections that should be of most concern is Section 702, and Sections 808, and 809, which relates to the management of lands in Coos County.  

In Section 702, it authorizes supposedly independent Indian Nations to include US National Forest Lands and public lands in the forest management plans of the individual tribes.  The legislation imposes some weak limitations on any other designations for using the land other than stated in the legislation, neutralizing the ability of any of the Indian Nations who may try to usurp the property.  The problems with these restrictions are the legal interpretations of the law, especially when dealing with a sovereign nation. 


SEC. 702. Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands.

Section 305 of the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (25 U.S.C. 3104) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Inclusion of certain National Forest System land and public land.--

“(1) AUTHORITY.—At the request of an Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned may treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under this section if the Federal forest land is located within, or mostly within, a geographic area that presents a feature or involves circumstances principally relevant to that Indian tribe, such as Federal forest land ceded to the United States by treaty, Federal forest land within the boundaries of a current or former reservation, or Federal forest land adjudicated to be tribal homelands.

“(2) REQUIREMENTS.—As part of the agreement to treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned and the Indian tribe making the request shall--

“(A) provide for continued public access applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, except that the Secretary concerned may limit or prohibit such access as needed;

“(B) continue sharing revenue generated by the Federal forest land with State and local governments either--

“(i) on the terms applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, including, where applicable, 25-percent payments or 50-percent payments; or

“(ii) at the option of the Indian tribe, on terms agreed upon by the Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned, and State and county governments participating in a revenue sharing agreement for the Federal forest land;

“(C) comply with applicable prohibitions on the export of unprocessed logs harvested from the Federal forest land;

“(D) recognize all right-of-way agreements in place on Federal forest land prior to commencement of tribal management activities; and

“(E) ensure that all commercial timber removed from the Federal forest land is sold on a competitive bid basis.

“(3) LIMITATION.—Treating Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting management activities pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not be construed to designate the Federal forest land as Indian forest lands for any other purpose.

“(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:

“(A) FEDERAL FOREST LAND.—The term ‘Federal forest land’ means--

“(i) National Forest System lands; and

“(ii) public lands (as defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e))), including Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands reconveyed to the United States pursuant to the first section of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), and Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands.

“(B) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term ‘Secretary concerned’ means--

“(i) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(i); and

“(ii) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii).”.

Section 808, discusses land in Western Oregon under the authority of the Bureau of Land Management.  It provides for the deposit of revenue from the Oregon & California Grant land, which are subject to provisions of title II of the 1937 O&C Act.  It excludes the Coos Bay Wagon Road fund according to the provisions in a succeeding Act passed in 1939, which defines the separations of the Wagon Road lands from the O&C Lands.  The distinction gives the government of Coos County the ability to collect revenue from the resources on the Wagon Road land without having to share the money with other members of the O&C Act, but only if the county is allowed to harvest it without the interference of lawsuits by environmental extremist.      

SEC. 808. Management of Bureau of Land Management lands in western Oregon.

(a) General rule.—All of the public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the Salem District, Eugene District, Roseburg District, Coos Bay District, Medford District, and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District in the State of Oregon shall hereafter be managed pursuant to title I of the of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181a through 1181e). Except as provided in subsection (b), all of the revenue produced from such land shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in the Oregon and California land-grant fund and be subject to the provisions of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181f).

(b) Certain lands excluded.—Subsection (a) does not apply to any revenue that is required to be deposited in the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant fund pursuant to sections 1 through 4 of the Act of May 24, 1939 (43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 through f–4).

In Section 809, it devises a scheme to allow the Secretary of the Interior to develop an analytical plan with two additional alternatives on the management of the land to present to the people of Western Oregon.  All the options the Secretary will present to the public will be a list of bounded choices, so no matter what the public decides the Department of Interior will get their desired outcome.  These tactics eliminate all other options for using this property
SEC. 809. Bureau of Land Management resource management plans.

(a) Additional Analysis and Alternatives.—To develop a full range of reasonable alternatives as required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider in detail a reference analysis and two additional alternatives as part of the revisions of the resource management plans for the Bureau of Land Management’s Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Roseburg, and Medford Districts and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District.

(b) Reference Analysis.—The reference analysis required by subsection (a) shall measure and assume the harvest of the annual growth net of natural mortality for all forested land in the planning area in order to determine the maximum sustained yield capacity of the forested land base and to establish a baseline by which the Secretary of the Interior shall measure incremental effects on the sustained yield capacity and environmental impacts from management prescriptions in all other alternatives.

(c) Additional Alternatives.--

(1) CARBON SEQUESTRATION ALTERNATIVE.—The Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider an additional alternative with the goal of maximizing the total carbon benefits from forest storage and wood product storage. To the extent practicable, the analysis shall consider--

(A) the future risks to forest carbon from wildfires, insects, and disease;

(B) the amount of carbon stored in products or in landfills;

(C) the life cycle benefits of harvested wood products compared to non-renewable products; and

(D) the energy produced from wood residues.

(2) SUSTAINED YIELD ALTERNATIVE.—The Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider an additional alternative that produces the greater of 500 million board feet or the annual net growth on the acres classified as timberland, excluding any congressionally reserved areas. The projected harvest levels, as nearly as practicable, shall be distributed among the Districts referred to in subsection (a) in the same proportion as the maximum yield capacity of each such District bears to maximum yield capacity of the planning area as a whole.

(d) Additional Analysis and Public Participation.—The Secretary of the Interior shall publish the reference analysis and additional alternatives and analyze their environmental and economic consequences in a supplemental draft environmental impact statement. The draft environmental impact statement and supplemental draft environmental impact statement shall be made available for public comment for a period of not less than 180 days. The Secretary shall respond to any comments received before making a final decision between all alternatives.

(e) Rule of construction.—Nothing in this section shall affect the obligation of the Secretary of the Interior to manage the timberlands as required by the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874; 43 U.S.C. 1181a–1181j).

In conclusion, the people of Coos County should be contacting their federal Senator and the Senators of the public lands committee to demand that H.R.2647 exclude public lands in America from the management of any sovereign nation other than the US government, including an Indian Nation.  The Senate should know that our county government is capable of managing these lands, if the county had the same protections from lawsuits that are the advantage of the Indian Nations.   

Moreover, the US Federal government should allow the county to sell these lands on the open market, and all other land owned by the US Federal Government should be reverted to the state of origin, so those lands can go back into production for the betterment of humankind.  
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2647/text
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O&C Land Wyden Bill Still Not Good for Rural Oregon

7/18/2015

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U.S. Senate Committee Also Holds Hearing on National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act to Improve Health of Federal Forest Lands

The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee yesterday held a hearing on the Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 (S. 132), legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden to change the management of O&C timberlands administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

The committee also held a hearing on the National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act of 2015, legislation introduced by U.S. Senator John Barrasso to expedite ecosystem restoration projects on National Forests across the country.

Representing Western Oregon forest products manufacturers, American Forest Resource Council (AFRC) President Tom Partin highlighted how the Wyden O&C proposal lacks balance and won’t address the needs of rural, forested communities. S. 132 is identical to Senator Wyden’s proposal from last year (S. 1784), which was opposed by Oregon’s forest products industry and the affected counties in Western Oregon.

“The Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 would set aside 69 percent of the O&C lands as conservation areas where sustainable timber management is prohibited,” Partin said. The remaining 31 percent would be subjected to the bill’s new regulations and arbitrary forestry restrictions that will reduce harvest levels while providing no certainty that projects will actually be implemented.

Unfortunately, the bill in its present form will not help our financially-distressed counties, will not solve the socio-economic problems in our rural communities, and will put forests of all ownerships further at risk of catastrophic wildfire. The Douglas Complex fire, which burned nearly 49,000 acres of private and BLM forests in 2013, serves a reminder that the lack of management has destructive consequences.”

Despite claims the bill would “double” timber harvest levels on O&C lands, an analysis commissioned by the Association of O&C Counties suggests the legislation would result in long-term sustained harvests of only 85 to 171 million board feet (mmbf) per year, far less than the 1.2 billion board feet the O&C lands grow naturally and lower than current meager levels of approximately 200 mmbf.

“While we have serious concerns with Senator Wyden’s O&C proposal, we are encouraged that the Committee is reviewing legislation to restore the health of our National Forests such as the National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act to improve management on federal lands across the nation,” Partin said.

Testifying in opposition to S. 132, Steve Swanson, President and CEO of family-owned Swanson Group of Glendale, Ore., said the industry remained unified in opposition to the legislation. But he expressed the industry’s commitment to working with Sen. Wyden and other members of the Congressional delegation on a solution that balances economic and environmental goals.

“Western Oregon’s rural, forested communities are in dire need of a durable, workable solution, Swanson testified. “We need a solution that provides the remaining critical milling infrastructure with a predictable supply of raw materials; we need a solution that is going to get Oregonians back in the woods proactively managing our forests to reduce disease, insect, and fire risks. And, we need a solution that reflects the unique legal mandate of the O&C Lands, which is to provide permanent, sustainable timber harvests in Western Oregon.”

Swanson testified that any effective O&C solution requires sufficient harvest levels to protect infrastructure and jobs; legal certainty against obstruction and delay; and stable and adequate funding for rural communities. He said Oregon’s industry has agreed in the past to a compromise that would set aside a majority of O&C lands for permanent conservation, and would continue to work with other stakeholders to help achieve a balanced solution.

“Our industry has come to the table – and will continue to come to the table – to find a durable, workable compromise for the O&C Lands,” Swanson said. “In fact, the timber industry supported the House O&C proposal, which dedicated more than half of the O&C Lands to conservation purposes while dedicating less than half to sustained yield timber production with sufficient legal certainty. While that was a difficult negotiation, it was the right thing to do for our communities and federal forests.”

“Senator Wyden, despite our position on your bill, I want to assure you that our industry remains totally and completely committed to working with you and the rest of the Oregon delegation to find an effective, compromise O&C solution before we see further economic declines in our rural communities. Most rural communities that are dominated by federal forest ownership can’t simply create alternative industries that defy the realities of their geography. With some of the most productive forestland in the entire world we would be foolish to even suggest it. Instead we should be taking steps to ensure that we restore active, sustainable management to the BLM O&C lands. We are excited to work with you in order to accomplish that mutual goal.”

Swanson applauded the committee for its consideration of the National Forest Ecosystem Improvement Act, testifying the bill will help expedite critical forest health projects and support forest collaboration while upholding federal environmental laws.

“S. 1691 includes important provisions to address the primary factors limiting the management of our national forests today, namely litigation and cost and time required for the Forest Service to satisfy the analysis paralysis that constrains forest management projects,” Swanson said. “With at least 65 million acres of national forest at risk to insects, disease, and catastrophic wildfire, S. 1691 includes an important – albeit modest – mandate to accomplish at least 1 million acres of mechanical restoration treatments annually. The legislation seeks to address analysis paralysis by placing reasonable limits on the size scope of the analysis required for these ecosystem restoration projects.”


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O&C :Urgent" Public Comment Tell Wyden You Oppose his Deal to Environmentalist

11/13/2014

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Ron Wyden Didn't Get the MessageWhen it comes to the management of Western Oregon's O&C timber lands, Sen. Ron Wyden didn't get the message. Just a few days after America voted for new leadership in Congress, Wyden didn't get the message that we are fed up with the status quo.

Wyden didn't get the message from O&C counties, businesses, and editorial boards across the state, urging him to work with Oregon's congressional delegation and other stakeholders to work on an O&C plan that truly fixes the problems in our forests and rural communities.

He didn't get the message from you, and from thousands of other Oregonians that we need an O&C solution that increases timber harvests, provides protection from excessive environmental lawsuits, and generates long-term revenue for counties dominated by land in federal ownership.

He needs to hear from you once again.

This Thursday, Nov. 13, Sen. Wyden plans to push badly-written O&C forest legislation through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. After the bill passes through committee, he intends to attach his flawed plan to "must-pass" legislation during the upcoming lame-duck session of Congress. Because his party will continue to control the U.S. Senate through December, Wyden could be successful in pushing it through Congress and having it signed by President Obama.

This latest version of Sen. Wyden's proposal still suffers from significant flaws and does not represent a balanced solution. It sets aside a large majority of guaranteed, permanent new wilderness and land set-asides. In fact, the newest version even proposes locking up more lands at the request of environmental special interests. Meanwhile, the plan doesn’t even require that the remaining lands be managed for timber production and fails to address the lawsuits currently crippling our communities and Western Oregon's remaining forest sector. It does nothing to address the revenue needs of counties with land bases dominated by federal ownership.

The cumbersome, overly-restrictive provisions have been tweaked, but as long as the Wyden proposal fails to address avenues for litigation and agency "analysis paralysis," this legislation will not fix the problems in our forests and rural communities. Whether intentional or unintentional, the legislation actually adds new avenues for litigation and layers of new requirements. This means more lawsuits, and more gridlock in our forests.

Please call Sen. Wyden at 202-224-5244 or click here to send him an email. Tell him his O&C plan is no solution for rural communities, but a giveaway to extreme environmentalists who seek to lock up more of our federal lands. Here are some other key messages:

--This proposed "solution" for Western Oregon's O&C forests would be a disaster for rural communities. Without sufficient harvest volume and legal certainty, the legislation directly threatens businesses and jobs, while the lack of timber receipts would perpetuate the decimation of critical public services.

- The Wyden proposal does not represent balance, but a huge give-away to environmental interest groups in Portland and Washington, DC, who could care less about the future of Oregon’s rural communities.

--It would be a grave mistake to push a flawed bill during the handful of days that remain in the current Congress. He should with Oregon Congressmen DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden on a truly balanced, effective and bipartisan solution.

It's up to us to stop Wyden's O&C plan from becoming law. Please call Sen. Wyden at 202-224-5244 or click here to send him an email, and encourage your family members, friends and neighbors to do the same!

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Tribal Forest Management in the Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs

11/6/2014

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Chairman Hastings:
Committee Stands Ready to Work With the Senate on Solution to Improve Federal Forest Management

Stresses need for solution that helps forest communities across the U.S.

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2014 - At a Full Committee hearing today on “Tribal Forest Management: A Model for Promoting Healthy Forests and Rural Jobs,” House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) in his opening statement stressed the need for the Senate to take action on House-passed legislation to restore active forest management. Last September, the House passed H.R. 1526, The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, which renews the federal government’s commitment to manage federal forests for the benefit of rural schools and counties and to improve forest health This bill, which creates over 200,000 jobs, is still waiting for action in the Democrat-controlled Senate. Meanwhile, our federal forests remain unhealthy and rural counties lack stable funding for services such as education and infrastructure.

Excerpts from Chairman Hastings’ Opening Statement:

"I will remind everyone that last year this Committee heard from a number of witnesses – including tribal governments – about the problems that characterize the federal forests under Forest Service management. This committee continues to take a strong interest in addressing these issues in a comprehensive way.

Over the last two decades, federal regulations and lawsuits have essentially shut down our national forests and have led to a rapid decline in timber sales and loss of associated jobs. Inadequate forest management has stripped rural counties of necessary funds to pay for vital services, including schools and emergency responders.

In addition, this lack of active forest management has caused significant degradation of forest health and left our forests increasingly susceptible to wildfires. As the IFMAT report notes, these poorly managed Forest Service lands often present significant wildfire threats to tribal forests. Congress attempted to address this issue under the Tribal Forest Protection Act of 2004, which allows tribes to propose hazardous fuels reduction projects on adjacent Forest Service lands. Yet this authority is rarely used, in part due to the uncertainties that come with the Forest Service’s seemingly endless environmental regulatory process.

I must point out that it’s been over six months since the House passed comprehensive legislation addressing these issues, and the Senate still has failed to act. H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, is a bipartisan bill that would create over 200,000 jobs, provide stable funding for counties to use for education and infrastructure, improve local management of our federal forests, and help reduce the risk of wildfire. It’s well past time for the Democrat-controlled Senate to get off the sidelines and take action to help our rural communities and save our national forests.

This Committee stands ready to work with the Senate on this issue. What we will not do, however, is accept a piecemeal approach that takes care of a few but leaves everyone else behind. The challenges facing our rural communities due to the neglect of our national forests will only be remedied with a national approach.”

Click here to read the full opening statement.

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MGX~Lobbyist a Big Waste of #CoosCounty Money for Wagon Road Lands

9/15/2014

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Hey Folks,

Commissioner John Sweet is lagging behind on this issue too.  Instead of going to the people with a Resolution in support of separating the CBWR from the O&C once and for all.  Mr. Sweet decided to hire an expensive Lobbyist, who knew little on the subject, to court the federal Senators and Congressman in DC., which is the wrong tactic.  He is also in favor of having the Coquille Indian Tribe manage both parcels of land, becasue he believes the Tribe, as a sovereign nation, is immune to lawsuits from Environmentalist.  That same immunity is a double edged sword, because they can use it against any legal claim from the county, so lets pressure our Congressman to do the right thing and give back this public land to the people of Coos County.  The people of Coos County can put it to much better use than the federal government.....Rob T. 

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Any similarity between the O&C lands and the CBWR (Coos Bay Wagon Road) lands ends with their respective management by the BLM (US Bureau of Land Management). Despite reports to the contrary the CBWR land conveyance had nothing whatsoever to do with the O&C Railroad land re-vestment. “The CBWR lands came into being through an 1869 Act of Congress in exchange for successfully constructing a military wagon road between Roseburg and Coos Bay…” The Act of 1919 distributed funds derived from the CBWR proportionately to Coos and Douglas counties. In 1937, Congress passed The O&C Lands Act which provided for the “permanent forest production; protection of watersheds and regulation of stream flow… and provisions for reimbursing the O&C counties the loss of tax revenues from the O&C lands“. Unfortunately, the drafters of the ’37 Act forgot to address the CBWR and consequently the matter had to be addressed again by Congress in 1939 to correct the omission.

How receipts collected for timber harvested from the Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands were handled was not addressed by the O&C Act of 1937. In 1939 the Coos Bay Wagon Road Act of 1939 became law. The 1939 Act established an in lieu tax payment program for paying Coos and Douglas Counties in lieu of taxes for the Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands.

The Coos Bay Wagon Road Act of 1939 not only reaffirmed the Act of 1919 and unlike the O&C lands allowed for payments-in-lieu-of-taxes or PILT that are not tethered to simply to timber harvests. Simply enforcing an existing Congressional Act will bring badly needed revenue to the county.

Upon appraisal thereof, the land and timber thereon shall be assessed as are other similar properties within the respective counties, and payments hereunder in lieu of taxes shall be computed by applying the same rates of taxation as are applied to privately owned property of similar character in such counties.

Senator Ron Wyden’s proposed O&C Land Grant Act of 2014 is set to reproduce the identical error as the 1937 Congress and give away 60,000 acres of Coos County’s tax base. It seems that a simple letter or phone call should suffice to advise Wyden’s staff of the error but last spring the county hired a lobbyist to the tune of $5,000 per month to rescue the CBWR from Wyden’s bill. Unfortunately, there is no indication the lobbyist, Ray Bucheger of FBB Federal Relations, (who also works for Jordan Cove and the Port of Coos Bay), understands the history of the CBWR any better than our current commission or has made any progress in moving Wyden’s staff in the right direction. Nevertheless, Commissioner John Sweet supports continuing the expense in order to “have an ear on the ground” while the legislative process moves forward and the county commission essentially does nothing.


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Natural Resource Committee Demanding Senate Action on H.R.1526 Public Comment 

7/13/2014

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Letter: Senate Action Needed to Renew Commitment to Active Management of Federal Forests
House-passed bill (H.R. 1526) would create jobs, reduce wildfire risk

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 11, 2014 - Today, 29 Members of Congress sent a letter underscoring support for House-passed active forest management legislation, H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act.  In the letter, the Members stress the need for Senate action to keep all of our Nation’s forests healthy. “Last fall, the House passed H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, with bipartisan support.  We greatly appreciate your leadership in bringing this critical legislation to the floor.  This legislation would restore balance to federal land management by emphasizing responsible timber production in environmentally appropriate areas and encouraging greater involvement in decision making by states and local communities,” wrote the Members in the letter. “With so many forest communities continuing to suffer economically, and with the ongoing threat of severe wildfires this summer, we are disappointed that the Senate has thus far failed to engage on this important issue. We are concerned that the Senate may sidestep the tough policy decisions involved by forwarding to the House certain place-based proposals that apply only to limited areas…Instead, we ask that you insist on broader policy solutions that help forest communities across the country.”

Click here to read the letter.

H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, was passed by the House of Representatives on September 20, 2013. This bipartisan, comprehensive legislation renews the federal government’s commitment to manage federal forests for the benefit of rural schools and counties.  It would create over 200,000 direct and indirect jobs; provide stable funding for counties to use for education and infrastructure; provide nearly $400 million in savings over 10 years; and help reduce the risk of wildfires. To learn more about H.R. 1526, click here.

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Call Oregon Senators & tell them to Support H.R.1526 

Senator Merkley
Washington D.C. Office
313 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C., 20510
Phone:(202) 224-3753
Senator Ron Wyden
Washington D.C.

221 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C., 20510
tel (202) 224-5244
fax (202) 228-2717
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Why does the Government Own & Hoard Resources? 

6/2/2014

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HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN POVERTY?

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How did it happen that the Federal government owns so much of the land in the western states? Why does the government own and hoard so much of resources? - Jack Swift, Josephine County

From the earliest days of the Continental Congress and the Northwest Ordinance, the government financed its debt and fostered the growth of new states by selling its land into private, taxable ownership. From 1830 this was accomplished by a series of legislative acts known as the Preemptive Acts which were followed by the Homestead Act of 1862. For more than 100 years this policy worked exceedingly well. Resources in the hands of a free market created an era of innovation, industrialization and economic prosperity which raised the overall standard of living exponentially. This policy created an era which came to be known as the “Gilded Age.”

Then, approximately 100 years ago, the country fell victim to the Progressive Movement. This was a political philosophy of aristocratic elitism. Founded upon the conviction that the average individual is either too ignorant or too greedy to be trusted with management, the progressives told us we and our resources needed to be managed by experts. We would know the experts because they would have certificates awarded by institutions of progressive education. Once certified, these experts undertook the management of everything. We created federal agencies made up of experts to manage our resources. We created the Federal Reserve to manage our economy. Given their expertise, individual free enterprise with regard to resources was deemed counter-productive and we terminated the Homestead Act. We replaced it with an altogether new scheme embodied in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA). Today federal lands are retained in government ownership and managed by the elite.

After World War II, the Progressive Movement wedded with the brand new Environmental Movement. Founded in the hysteria provoked by the false fantasies of the likes of Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich and the Sierra Club, the combined movements soon saddled us with the National Environmental Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act. Entrusting these to experts of course required the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the infusion in the management agencies with the enlightened ideals of environmental nihilism.  The goal of the managers became the curtailment of industry. Sequestration of resources replaced production.

Lack of production in turn brought the potential of widespread poverty. Our experts quickly found the cure by introducing a new economy based upon credit. Nixon took the nation off the gold standard and there was nothing left but credit.  The difficulty with credit as a basis for economic growth in place of production is that credit does not create any new sales and thereby widen the economy. It merely advances the time of purchase. The economy is still limited by what the producers can afford.

Today we are confronted with the failure of an expert idea that is essentially a lead balloon. It cannot work. Individually, the amount of credit one can undertake is always limited by one’s capacity to service the debt one already has. When one reaches the point that one must undertake more debt in order to make the payments on one’s existing debt, the game is over. In terms of a national economic scheme, it requires an ever-increasing population ready to take on debt. When we experience a down-sizing of the working population such as is following the retirement of the baby-boomers, there ensues necessarily a contraction of overall debt - what the Federal Reserve perceives as deflation. And therein lies our current financial crisis.

The fantasy game of the green progressives is over. The time has come to repair the economy they have broken. That can only be done by restoring opportunity to those who would exploit it. We must once again make our resources available to production. It is time to repeal FLPMA and restore the Homestead Act. The only real economy is one based upon production and production requires resources.

Jack Swift
Southern Oregon Resource Alliance (SORA)
June, 2014

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Senator Wyden’s O&C Plan will Bankrupt Counties Part #2

3/15/2014

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From a Watchdog in Josephine County

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OREGON & CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT ACT OF 2013:
Critique No. 2
Senator Wyden’s O&C plan will bankrupt counties_

Regarding Clear Cuts
It might be fairly said that the entire thrust of Senator Wyden’s effort to repeal the1937 O&C Act is purely and simply to eliminate clear-cuts. As he has said: “Will there be clear-cuts? No. End of story.” This restriction is clear in the structure of his bill whether it is addressing conservation lands or forestry lands. But Senator Wyden offers no rationale for the elimination. He describes no advantage to be gained by the elimination. The approach is simply that clear-cuts must go. One is left to ask, “What’s wrong with clear-cuts?”

As much as the Sierra Club idolizes John Muir as the original environmentalist, no one has done more to popularize the environmental movement that the poet Robert Frost. Whether he describes stopping by woods on a snowy evening or choosing a path less traveled, his reader is always impressed that Frost has been there, that he personally experienced the sensations he was so talented at describing - and that he grasped the truth. And, if the reader also has been there, the reader knows the truth of the sensations and emotions experienced. This is important in the matter of clear-cutting because of a lovely book of poetry written by Frost in the 1950s -“In the Clearing.”

As only poetry can do, Frost’s book eulogizes the joy experienced by the woodsman when he comes to a clearing in the woods. The wonderful expansions of the sensations of life, joy and freedom that overwhelm one when suddenly released for a moment from the shadows and confines of canopies and crowded age old trees and moss.In the clearing there is life. Where the sun can penetrate, young green growth can sprout and the cycle of life can go on. In the clearing, one is released from the dark tomb of hoary old trees tenaciously clinging to the last moments of quiet destiny.

In the clearing, wildlife in all forms can thrive. All creatures come there to dine on the sustenance provided by the sunlight and the miracle of photosynthesis. The birds - be they quail, grouse or chickadees - forage on the seeds to be found. The mice, the wood rats and the voles can find food. The deer and the elk feast upon the tender shoots of new green growth. And the creatures that prey upon all the rest come there to feed also - the bobcats, cougars, wolves and coyotes. Even owls need the life found in the clearings if they are to eat. In the clearing, in the sunlight, the cycle of life renews itself and creatures young and old go there to survive.

A clearing is nature’s nursery.   It is in the clearing that youth can thrive. There is nothing other than shelter and cover for the young in the dark woods. The message is simple. Eliminate the clearings and you eliminate the life you associate with the wild and the wilderness. Likewise, where there are clearings, nature provides wildlife.

Clearings are important to the forest itself. Fire is an integral part of the natural forest regime. There are several species of trees in which their seeds will only open when exposed to the heat of a forest fire. But, unchecked, fire can be a stand replacement event. Against such catastrophic loss, clearings stand as natural fire-breaks.

It should be clear that clearings are good. They are natural. They provide for the maximum development of all that is natural. By contrast, hoary old growth stands are tombs. They provide nothing and are only unproductive monuments to the past, soundlessly awaiting their doom.

Even the center of the old growth controversy - the spotted owl - needs clearings. While old growth stands may provide nesting habitat for the owl, they provide no forage because they foster no life other than their own. The owl lives on voles and voles live in clearings. The owl needs nesting habitat but it also needs forage habitat.

Besides their natural value, clear-cuts play an important part in the process of sustained yield timber cultivation. Clear-cutting, where the terrain will allow it, is the essence of rapid regeneration. It has been clear-cutting that made possible the remarkable increase of the merchantable timber inventory from 44 billion board feet to 60 billion after harvesting some 45 billion. Clear-cutting makes for rapid and cost- effective regeneration. While not without cost - young regeneration stands lack the fire resilience of older stands, these costs have been proven to be manageable if they are in fact managed with fire protection in mind. With out clear-cutting, forest management as envision by Wyden, Frankin and Johnson produces less merchantable timber and what is produced is far more expensive. If one would have a small percentage of our forests devoted to timber production for the benefit of the economy and the support of local government, rapid regeneration and tree plantation are the proven means.

Jack Swift is the Vice Chairman of the Southern Oregon Resource Alliance

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Senator Wyden's O&C Plan will Bankrupt Counties  Part #1 

3/15/2014

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From a Watchdog in Josephine County

Senator Wyden’s O&C plan will bankrupt counties

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Senator Wyden’s O&C plan will bankrupt counties
Tuesday, December 10. 2013


by Jack Swift

OREGON & CALIFORNIA LAND GRANT ACT OF 2013: Critique No. 1

It follows that, with the judicial decision upholding the primary utilization mandate of the 1937 O&C Act, the environmental movement’s response would be to repeal the act. This should surprise no one. The repeal and its replacement scheme have been in the works for years. Those who oppose timber production had to have a fall back plan once the inevitable litigation took place.

That the attack would be predicated upon what the environmentalists call “science” should be no surprise either. Their favorite and most effective ploy is to advance their agenda behind the charade of what they call “science.” Their “science” is a farce built upon a sand hill of false facts and irrelevant projections.

Senator Wyden’s “Oregon & California Land Grant Act of 2013″ would amend and effectively destroy the mandates of the 1937 Act by doing away with half of the roughly 2.1 million acres dedicated to sustained yield timber production and would establish new mandates for the remainder. The Senator tells us this is necessary to resolve the legal impasses that prevent a “return to the unsustainable logging levels of a bygone era.” This is, of course, false fact number one.

According to data published by the Association of O&C Counties, these lands had an inventory of 44 million board feet of merchantable timber in the late 1930s when the law was enacted. During the roughly sixty years intervening between the Act and the adoption of the Northwest Forest Management Plan, more than 45 billion board feet were harvested. At that point, thanks to managed regeneration, the lands supported a standing inventory of some 60 billion board feet. That experience established that the 2.1 million acres could and would sustain harvests at a level of 1.2 billion board feet per year in perpetuity.

This data tracks exactly the BLM’s own reports. Their WOPR “Plan Revision News” Newsletter #9 indicated a standing inventory in 1950 of 50 billion board feet, a harvest over the ensuing 50 years of 45 billion board feet, and a resultant standing inventory in 2000 of 70 billion board feet.

To avoid the “sustainable” production mandate of the law, our Governor, when he addressed Congress on the issue in April told them that we are now dealing with a “broadened sustainability criteria.” He feels that FLPMA and the ESA have amended the 1937 Act as to the meaning of “shall be managed, except as provided in section 1181c of this title, for permanent forest production, and the timber thereon shall be sold, cut, and removed in conformity with the principal (sic) of sustained yield . . . .”  This might be an acceptable position unless one also considers the rest of the sentence, “for the purpose of providing a permanent source of timber supply, protecting watersheds, regulating stream flow, and contributing to the economic stability of local communities and industries and providing recreational facilities” which are the very concerns addressed in FLPMA and the ESA. The historic fact is that the 1937 Act was a conservation effort that introduced the concepts later expanded by FLPMA and ESA to all federal lands.

Wyden boasts that his scheme aims at “doubling timber harvests over the next 10 years compared to the last 10 years.” He explains that harvests during the recent decade “have averaged 149.5 million board feet per year.” So he apparently believes that 300 million board feet per year will suit our needs nicely. Note that his represents 1/3 of the 900 million per year that was historically produced and 1/4 of the 1.2 billion board feet per year proven to be sustainable. Even considering the fact that he would reduce the producing acreage by half, his management scheme for the remainder falls far short of what is sustainable.

This would be irrelevant projection number one. When it comes to revenue generation, doubling nothing is still nothing.

Without directly attacking all that is wrong with Wyden’s House Built on a Slime Foundation, it would seem adequate to point to two additional fundamental defects.

Initially, there is the goal Wyden espouses to “permanently protect old growth trees, ensure habitat for sensitive species, and put in place strong safeguards for drinking water and fish.” In the abstract, this is a lofty goal and highly desirable.

Wyden, however, forgets that this objective is well addressed in the management of Oregon forests. We have lands set aside for wilderness. We have national monuments. We have Wild and Scenic Rivers. We have Wild and Scenic Corridors and we have the vast array of National Forests. Why is it so hard to conceptualize that 10% of our forest capacity should be set aside for production?

Finally, one has to question why it is necessary for Senator Wyden to re-invent the wheel? For fifty years the 1937 Act worked perfectly until the environmentalists took exception. Either they are opposed to production altogether or they are opposed to the methods of production. Since Wyden speaks in terms of restoring production to some level, one would have to take him at his word and conclude he is not against production as such. The answer can only be that environmentalists do not like regeneration forestry. And, in response to the question “Will this bill allow clear cuts?”, Wyden is emphatic, “No. End of story.”

The value of clear cuts in terms of the health of the forest is the material for another critique. Suffice it to say that it is clear that the only reason for turning the whole system of forestry management upside down is to do away with clear cuts. Does it make any sense to bankrupt counties, to destroy economies, and to put an entire forest at risk for the sole purpose of satisfying the aesthetic preferences of a minority?

Jack Swift is the Vice Chairman of the Southern Oregon Resource Alliance

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Senator Whitsett---Oregon: Transfer public lands from feds?

10/14/2013

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Oregon: Transfer public lands from feds?

Sunday, October 13. 2013
by Sen. Doug Whitsett

The United States government owns more than 55 percent of all the acreage in Oregon. A total of more than 53,000 square miles, or 34 million acres, is held in federal title. Oregon has the fifth highest federal ownership percentage among all of the 13 Western states.

So what is wrong with this massive federal ownership of Oregon land and how did it happen?

The United States Constitution prohibits the states from imposing or collecting taxes on property owned by the federal government. More than half of the landmass of the state of Oregon is thereby excluded from Oregon’s taxing authority. Any existing or potential improvements located on that 53,000 square miles of federal land is also exempt from property taxation. This situation obviously creates a huge barrier to the adequate funding for Oregon’s schools, public safety, transportation infrastructure, and care for our most vulnerable citizens.

 Further, the federal ownership of more than half of the landmass of Oregon functionally excludes it from economic development. Virtually all of Oregon’s businesses, jobs, wealth and infrastructure are found on the 40 percent of Oregon’s landmass that is privately owned. Conversely, virtually none is found on the 34 million acres of federally owned land. The burden of the cost of State and local government in Oregon is borne by the taxation of less than half of the lands of the state.
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Natural Resources Committee--State Forests Management Superior to Federal Forests

10/14/2013

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State Forests Management Superior to Federal Forests
for Job Creation, Revenue Production, Local Economies and Fire Prevention

WASHINGTON, D.C.,  February 26, 2013 -    Today the House Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation held a hearing examining, “State Forest Management: A Model for Promoting Healthy Forests, Rural Schools and Jobs.” The hearing was an opportunity to hear from state leaders, local land managers and timber experts on the inadequacies and burdens of current federal forest management practices that have contributed to poor forest health, underfunded schools, lost jobs, and suppressed economic activities in communities near National Forests.   In comparison, state managed forests can often produce hundreds of times more revenue, from just a fraction of the land base while maintaining vibrant, healthy forests to support local communities.
“[Washington state] lands generate an average of $168 million annually, support construction of public elementary, middle school and high schools statewide, facilities at the state’s universities, and other state facilities and institutions. In comparison, the U.S. Forest Service is responsible for managing over 9 million acres of forest land contained within seven different national forests in the State of Washington, yet harvests just 2 percent of the new growth, yielding a four-year average of only $589,000 in revenue,”  said Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04).  “Rather than offering all-too-familiar rhetoric of how complying with one federal law or another ‘costs too much,’ it’s time for the federal government to adjust how it does business, and honor its own statutory responsibilities to manage the forests, including allowing sufficient timber harvests, that benefit forested counties and their schools, as well as improve declining forest health and reduce the threat and soaring costs of catastrophic wildfire.” 

“Over the last few decades we’ve seen our National Forest System fall into complete neglect—what was once a valuable asset that deteriorated into a growing liability. I believe our forests and public lands are long overdue for a paradigm shift,” said Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01).“It’s time for the federal government to cease being the absentee landlord of over 600 million acres of land in this country that it controls and start leveraging those lands in a way  that benefits rather than burdens the taxpayers and communities who are forced to play host to the federal estate.”
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O&C Land---Timber Bill and Log Prices

9/11/2013

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The following are two related articles from The Natural Resource Report

O&C Timber Bill may see Sept. hearing

http://naturalresourcereport.com/2013/09/farm-bureau-comdemns-cattle-killer/
September 9, 2013

O&C Timber Bill likely in September or October
Natural Resource Note:

 Congressman Greg Walden has been pressing for a bill for the O&C forest lands and now it appears to be likely to fall in September or October.  The issue made the leadership agenda among  10 other major items to be discussed this fall as detailed by a memo from Congressman Eric Cantor of Virginia. Memo agenda note:
 
Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act.  For over 100 years, the federal government has managed our national forests while sharing with impacted local communities a percentage of management revenue.Chairman Doc Hastings’s bill, Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act (H.R. 1526), renews the government’s commitment to rural communities, improves forest health, and will help prevent catastrophic wildfires which threaten millions of Americans through proactive measures. The bill also provides a short-term extension of the Secure Rural Schools payments program.

Timber & log prices drop

http://naturalresourcereport.com/2013/09/timber-log-prices-drop/
September 9, 2013

Timber Industry Report
By Rick Sohn PhD.
Umpqua Coquille LLC

 Interest rates increased last month, but real estate sales rose, as if homebuyers wanted to catch the bottom. Log prices dropped a lot, and lumber only somewhat, helping the mills. Seven-year trend of lumber, logs, housing, and mortgage statistics are shown below.

Interpretation
The price of lumber has decreased, but the price of logs has REALLY dropped. Net result? Logs are more affordable, mills
are breathing a sigh of relief, and are making some money.

Fire danger has decreased in areas of the Pacific Northwest where it has been raining, This will ultimately help keep log prices down since logging operations can proceed and logs become more plentiful. Fire season still has life however, and things can change with a dry September.
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BLM---Lawsuit expands to lock-up 90 million bd-ft of timber    

11/21/2012

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Lawsuit expands to lock-up 90 million bd-ft of timber     
       November 21, 2012     
by Rex Storm, Forest Policy Manager
Associated Oregon Loggers

 BLM Timber Lawsuit Impacts:  Previously reported environmental lawsuits attempting to stop Bureau of Land Management timber sales in Southern Oregon now appear to impact an even larger timber volume. 
Environmental plaintiffs filed suit in US District Court to stop up to 25 BLM timber sales, and over 90 million board feet of timber harvest.  For every million board feet of timber harvested, 38 jobs/year are generated in Oregon’s economy.  If the lawsuits are not overturned, some 1,100 Oregonians would be threatened with under-employment during a three-year period.


Oregon Forest Sector Report:  A new 200-page report, The 2012 Forest Report – An Economic Assessment of Oregon’s Forest & Wood Products Manufacturing Sector, affirms that the sector is poised to grow creating thousands of new rural jobs—given improved markets and needed reforms to increase the public timber supply.  The report is published by Oregon Forest Resources Institute, which was created by Oregon’s Legislature to provide reliable public forestry information, and is funded by a portion of the timber harvest tax.  More information at: www.TheForestReport.org


Governor’s O& C Forest Panel:  In October, Governor Kitzhaber appointed a 14-member panel to develop a proposal that aims to legally authorize increased timber sale from half the Bureau of Land Management O&C forestland acreage, while generating sufficient timber sale receipts to replace lost county government timber revenues.  Beginning with a draft bill built by Oregon congressman DeFazio, Schrader and Walden, the panel
must deliver its recommendation to the Governor and Congress by early next year.

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Wallowa County Endorses Petition to De-Federalize Oregon Lands

9/30/2012

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http://giveusourlandback.org  
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 

Wallowa County Endorses Petition  to De-Federalize Oregon Lands 

ENTERPRISE, OR – September 18, 2012 

The Wallowa County Commission has endorsed a petition requesting the US Congress to return federal
land in Oregon to the counties of Oregon. 
 
The Petition To De-Federalize Oregon Lands is championed by Oregon citizens coalition named
Give Us Our Land Back.  The Petition may be viewed and signed on the Internet at ttp://giveuslourlandback.org 

The Petition asserts that the federal ownership of 53 percent of Oregon’s landbase is unconstitutional and has been detrimental to the local economy and environment. 

The Petition further asserts, “… sovereign control, full jurisdiction, and eminent domain by the People of Oregon
over the land and resources within its boundaries would be most likely to effect proper stewardship and the safety and happiness of the People of Oregon
…” 
Wallowa County Commissioner Paul Castilleja noted that in 1994 a Wallowa County initiative (# 32-1) passed by the voters affirmed the policy of the County that “federal” land ownership is unconstitutional. 

Wallowa County Initiative # 32-1 (1994) 


Question: Shall the People of Wallowa County Recognize the Federal Government’s Lack of Authority to Possess Unconstitutionally Held Land in Wallowa County? 


Summary: Amendment 10 of the United States Constitution: The Powers not delegated to the United Sates by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the People.A review of the Constitution and  the intent and concerns of the framers indicates that this document does not
contain any authorization for the Federal government to own, hold or exert its dominion over any public lands,
except for land for the erection of forts, arsenals, dock yards, and needful buildings.  

Yes votes were 2,483, no votes were 907. 

Commissioner Castilleja stated, “It is my opinion that the Constitution of United States is still the law of the land and should be held to its highest standards.” 

Give Us Our Land Back executive director Mike Dubrasich stated, “The justifications for transferring title of federal lands back to the counties are constitutional, pragmatic, and ethical. “The land rightfully belongs to the residents.  We can do a far better job of stewardship and resource conservation than any Washington DC bureaucracy.  It is the right thing to do.” 

A meeting to discuss the Petition and its implications is scheduled for Oct. 5th at 10am at the Wallowa Courthouse (Thornton Room), 101 S. River Street, Enterprise.County Commissioner Paul Castilleja and Mr. Dubrasich will be attending.  The interested public is invited. 

Give Us Our Land Back  
 
http://giveusourlandback.org 

 
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RMP's for Western Oregon

6/22/2012

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CG912Project Members and friends,
 

RMPs for Western  Oregon
The  BLM Oregon is initiating a resource management plan (RMP) revisions which will provide goals, objectives, and direction for the management of approximately 2.6  million acres of BLM-administered lands in western  Oregon.  
 
Having attended the Eugene BLM meeting, it is clear that the intent is NOT Forest Management for Timber Harvest, but for the  Protection of the Spotted Owl and Forest Management for Climate  change. I remember when they used to manage and prepare for next years weather,  not if it is going to be warmer or cooler in 100 years. 'useful  idiots'.
 
I ask the question, where are the Foresters?
 
The O&C Act of 1937 set aside approximately 2.4 million acres of federally-owned  forest lands in 18 western Oregon counties for the economic benefit of those  counties. 
According to USFS records the volume of timber harvested, measured in thousands of board feet (mbf) on USFS 
lands has declined from a peak harvest in 1973 of 5,791,353 mbf to 1,126,867 mbf in 1994 to 419,381 mbf in 2007.
http://giveusourlandback.org/news/commentaries 

 
Timeline http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/ Following is a tentative timeline for the RMPs for Western Oregon planning process:

 The BLM is accepting scoping comments until July 5. The  BLM is seeking public input on what issues and management alternatives the RMPs  should address. RMPs for Western Oregon Comment  Form
http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/comments.php


I encourage my fellow Oregonians to take the time to respond,  share you story how the decline in the lack of managing the Forest for  timber harvest has affected you and your family.


It is time to return economic benefits back to the  County
http://giveusourlandback.org/
 
Congressional 
District 4 Calendar: http://bit.ly/Oregon-CD4LibertyCalendar


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A Meeting About Nothing....

6/6/2012

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The Sentinel 6/6/2012
THE TEA PARTYER
June 5, 2012
 
On Wednesday May 30, 2012 the Bureau of Land Management held a public meeting to get comments and suggestions for the bureau’s process of revising Resource  Management Plans (RMP) for 2.5 million acres of forested lands across six of  the bureau’s Districts in western Oregon.  
 
It is the latest in an effort by the Department of Interior to use one of its agencies to expand the level of control of the Dept. over the individual states.  The Department’s motive is to eventually seize the natural resources of the country and exploit those resources for their own purposes---all to the detriment of the states.    
 
The bureau will call for public input, but most of the decisions seem to have already been made in D.C.  The
public has to contact the 23 Members of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests & Public Lands and let them know you are concerned with these latest actions. The website for this subcommittee is www.naturalresources.house.gov.  These members of congress control the purse strings for the budget of The Department of Interior and they must be told to stop allocating money to fund these studies and more land acquisitions.  This is the same subcommittee that controls the funding of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, which is in the process of moving forward with the Bandon Marsh Expansion, among other land grabs in Oregon.
 
It is equally important for people to contact The Bureau by June 7, 2012 when the public scoping period ends.  After that time The B.L.M. will move forward with these Resource Management Plans making it more difficult to stop the process once started.  
 
People can submit comments concerning the Western Oregon RMPs/EIS by mail, email or faxing: 
Website:   www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon
Email:    BLM_OR_RMPs_WesternOregon@blm.gov
Fax: 503-808-6333
Mail:               
P.O. Box 2965,
Portland, Oregon 97208 
 
Remember it was the USDA in conjunction with The Bureau of Land Management that implemented The Northwest Forest Plan in 1994. The plan was created to guarantee the recovery of the northern spotted owl. The plan allocated only 15 percent of the 24.5 million acres of federal land to multiple use management and set aside 85 percent for special uses. The reduction in manageable land lowered the amount of timber available annually from 4.5 billion to 1.1 billion board feet. In addition, less than 40 percent of the projected 1.1 billion was ever made available for harvest, which led to the closure of 261 mills supporting at least 50,000 jobs in Washington, Oregon and California.  The Bureau is a job killer
 
Taking those facts into consideration here are my suggestions for The Bureau of Land Management’s Resource Management Plans:
 
Stop wasting tax dollars on useless studies designed to put up barriers between the tax-paying
and public property. 


Stop wasting public resources on any resource management plan or “RMP.”

Stop any study or plan to increase the habitat of any creature other than humans.

Stop putting the needs of wildlife over the survival of humans.

Stop expanding the bureau’s area, domain, protection zone, space, territory, or sphere of influence in Coos County and the state of Oregon.

The Bureau should return all the public land within state lines to the respective county’s Board of Commissioners.
 
The Bureau of Land Management is an antiquated, obsolete, over bloated agency and should be eliminated by the US Congress.

The Department Of Interior is an abusive authority driven by ideological environmental extremism and should be swiftly & severely defunded by the US Congress, until the agency’s main purpose of existence is to serve the people and only people of the United States.

Secretary of State Ken Salazar should be fired for his insubordination to the people he serves and the
subversion of the US Constitution.

 
These  are just a few of my suggestions for The Bureau, so feel free to pick and choose the ones you like or submit your own. Whatever you choose to do, please do not miss this opportunity to voice your opinion.  There are very few times when it is absolutely necessary.  
 
“Rob Taylor was the original organizer of the TEA Parties in Coos County and is currently an independent activist working to promote the rights of the individual.”

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TIME IS RUNNING OUT to Contact the BLM

6/1/2012

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TIME IS RUNNING OUT 
 

Take  the limited opportunity to make your opinion count by contacting the Bureau of Land Management

 Here is a link to the website and an email to contact them.

You may submit comments on issues, alternatives and planning criteria related to the
RMPs for Western Oregon by any of the following methods: 
 
website: www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon
 email:  BLM_OR_RMPs_WesternOregon@blm.gov
 fax: 503-808-6333 
mail: P.O. Box 2965, Portland, Oregon  97208


Documents pertinent to this proposal may be examined at: 
Oregon State Office Public Room 333 SW 1st Avenue Portland, OR 97204 


For more information open the files from the BLM:
BLM Federal Register, Volume 77 Issue 47 (Friday, March 9, 2012)
File Size: 40 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

BLM Planning Update for Western OR 3-9-12
File Size: 127 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

This was my message to the BLM:
Stop wasting tax dollars on useless studies used to put up barriers between the taxpaying and public property. 

Stop wasting public resources on any resource management plan or “RMP”

Stop any study or plan to increase the habitat of any creature other than humans. 
 

Stop putting the needs of wildlife over the survival of humans.  
 
Stop expanding the bureau’s area, domain, protection zone, space, territory, or sphere of influence into Coos County and the state of Oregon. 
 

The Bureau should return all the public land within state lines to the respective county’s Board of Commissioners.

The Bureau of Land Management is an antiquated, obsolete, over bloated agency that should be eliminated by the US Congress

The Department Of Interior is an abusive authority driven by ideological environmental extremism and should be swiftly & severely defunded by the US Congress, until the agency’s main purpose of existence is to serve the people and only people of the United States.

Secretary of State Ken Salazar should be fired for his insubordination to the people he serves and the subversion of the US Constitution.  
 
Sincerely, Rob Taylor 
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 The Bureau wants to control the outcome of this issue and we have to redirect the conversation back to the basic point that the Bureau is too big and they have too much of our state’s territory.  
 

Do not let them confuse you with their long winded, double talk.   


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BLM Q&A

5/26/2012

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From a friend:

Dear All,
    Just got off the phone with a Board Member who sits on the O & C    Board, who just got back from an O & C Mtg. in Salem   (O&C Board is comprised of 18 counties and comprises 2.6 million acres).

    Key Pts From Mtg.:
Presentation was given by Jody Caicco, USFWS   Portland Office.
    1. Draft EIS with comment period ending June 8th has been completed    by USFWS to
    remove the Barred Owl from protection in favor of the Spotted Owl.

    2. Proposal includes killing Barn Owls which is not an endangered species in order to protect
     the Spotted Owl.

    3. There will be only 1 public meeting on the issue in Seattle. We need to find out when and get
    a group or buses.

    4. USFWS in collaboration with the BLM (see link above) is preparing to counter the turn-over of O & C lands   to the Counties with  a move that will increase critical habitat areas from 5.3 mil acres  to 13.9 mil acres.

    5. New Critical Habitat lands in Oregon will include 670,000 acres of State-owned land and 1.3 mil acres
    of private lands.

    6. Increase of Critical Habitat Lands will limit what Counties can do with land and limit Counties ability
    to manage and log.

    7. BLM conducted the North West Forest Plan which took 5 years and is in the process of beginning a new study  on Logging (No-logging) BLM Lands. The work that won awards and    recognition that the Coquille Tribe
received for responsible    sustainable  Logging was actually conducted by the BLM.

    See: Attached "Federal Register of Intent" and how ties the O & C, Wagon Road and other local projects together. See highlighted   text.

    See: http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/rmpswesternoregon/documents.php    and attached documents.

    NOTE: This move may be a violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Other:
    1.. O & C Executive Board representing Southern Part of Oregon is seriously considering a move to  form a separate State and suceed from the State of Oregon which-in    my opinion- has become the State of Portland.

Notes:    
Take a look at the following link: http://wagonroad.org/   Coos Bay Wagonroad Coalition - Note that there is a 2008 Resolution    of Support for the Coos County Commissioners and a December 2011  letter in support posted from  Arnie Roblan.

Also Note RE The Coos County Alliance for Progress" campaign  contributions: from the http://mgx.com/blogs/2012/04/23/coos-county-alliance-for-progress-picks-its-favorites/    blog   "The committee has made contributions to Fred Messerle in the amount    of $4,000, John Sweet for $1,500, Tim Bishop for $250, Melissa Cribbins for $750 and Mary Loiselle for $250.
All accepted the contributions with the exception of Mary Loiselle who had the good character, in my opinion, to return the check."

BLM Q & A 
What is the purpose of the planning effort? 
The new Resource Management Plans  (RMPs) will define new goals, objectives, and management direction for the  BLM-administered lands in the western Oregon. The RMPs will result in a different mix of resource protections and resource uses than currently exists.  The new RMPs will determine how the BLM will manage BLM-administered lands in western Oregon to meet multiple objectives, including contributing to recovery  of threatened and endangered species, to provide clean water, to restore fire
adapted ecosystems, to produce a sustainable output of timber products, and  provide for recreation opportunities. 

Why is the BLM doing this now? What's different from past efforts? 
There are several factors that have
contributed to BLM's decision to initiate a RMP revision process, including the
ongoing litigation associated with the 2008 planning effort, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife's 2011 recovery plan for the northern spotted owl, the 2012 proposed
critical habitat for the northern spotted owl, and the underlying Federal Land
Policy and Management Act requirement for the ongoing maintenance and revision
of land use plans. 

Recognizing the contentious nature of forest management in western Oregon, the BLM is interested in exploring new and innovative approaches that address the social, cultural and economic dimensions
of forest management. 

Are the Secretarial pilot projects going to be part of the new planning effort? 
The BLM has recently completed several Pilot Projects intended to fulfill the Secretary of the Interior's
direction to apply ecological principles developed by Drs. Norm Johnson and  Jerry Franklin, on BLM-administered lands within the Roseburg, Medford, and Coos Bay Districts. The pilots are now completed and information learned from these efforts will help to inform the RMP revision process. 

What plan(s) is the BLM  revising? 
The six western Oregon BLM districts completed RMPs in 1995 that incorporated the land use allocations and Standards and Guidelines from the Northwest Forest Plan. In 2008, the BLM completed RMP  revisions for the six western Oregon districts. 

Ongoing litigation is seeking to set aside the 2008 Western Oregon RMPs (WOPR). The BLM intends to revise its RMPs  notwithstanding the pending litigation. The BLM will continue to manage these
lands in accordance with the existing RMPs until the revised RMPs are completed
and a Record of Decision is signed.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Extends Public Comment Period On Proposed Spotted Owl

5/25/2012

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Good  Afternoon-
Please  see below for an advanced copy of the Service's news release concerning the extension of the public comment period on the  proposed Northern spotted-owl critical habitat. In addition,  the Service is
announcing a series of public meetings and hearings seeking input on the proposal. If you have any          questions please let me know. 

Have a great day,
-Roya
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Roya Mogadam
Congressional and Legislative Affairs
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
roya_mogadam@fws.gov
703.358.2128 (work)
202.657.2989 (cell)

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service  Extends Public Comment Period
On Proposed Spotted Owl  Critical Habitat, Announces
Public Meetings  Schedule

New deadline is July 6, 2012 
 
        The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is extending the   public comment period through July 6, 2012, on the proposed        revision to the critical habitat designation for the northern  spotted owl, a threatened species protected under the Endangered  Species Act.  The Service will host three open meetings and one        public hearing to seek input on the proposal.  Documents for  review and explanatory information are available at www.fws.gov/oregonfwo  on the “Spotted Owl Main Info Site.”

Public meeting and hearing schedule:

        Monday, June 4, 2012, in Redding, CA:  3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PDT, Redding Convention  Center, 700 Auditorium Drive Redding, California 96001;        530-229-0036.


        Tuesday, June 12, 2012 in Tacoma, WA:  3:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PDT, University of  Washington, Tacoma Campus, 1900 Commerce St., Jane Russell        Commons, Tacoma,
Washington; 253-692-4306.

Wednesday,  June 20, 2012 in Portland, OR:  2:00 p.m. to  4:00  p.m. PDT, Oregon Convention Center, Room C-120, 777 NE  Martin Luther King Blvd., Portland, Oregon; 503-235-7575.   This meeting will precede
the public hearing at the same  location and on the same date. 
 

Also on Wednesday June 20, 2012 in Portland, OR:  a   public hearing will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. PDT.    The  public hearing will be held in Room C-120 at the Oregon    Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Blvd., Portland,        Oregon; 503-235-7575. 
 

Persons with disabilities needing reasonable accommodations to participate in the public meetings are invited to contact Angela  Butsch, 1-888-812-5739 or 503-231-6263 (TTY).  Reasonable  accommodation requests should be received at least 3 business        days prior to the meeting to help ensure availability; 2 weeks’        notice is requested for ASL/ESL interpreter needs. 

Comments on the critical habitat proposal can be provided either  of the following ways:  

               
Electronically:  Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal:  http://www.regulations.gov. 
     In the Keyword box, enter Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2011–0112, which    is the docket number for this rulemaking.  Then, in the Search        panel on the left side of the screen, under the Document Type        heading, click on the Proposed Rules link to locate this        document.  You may submit a comment by
clicking on “Send a        Comment or Submission.” By hard copy:  Submit by U.S. mail or hand–delivery        to: Public  Comments Processing, Attn: FWS–R1–ES–2011–0112;        Division of Policy and  Directives Management; U.S. Fish and        Wildlife Service; 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, MS 2042–PDM; Arlington,        VA 22203.

The  original 90-day public comment period on the proposed critical   habitat, which began on March 8, is extended through July 6 to  coincide  with upcoming public comment periods on an economic   analysis and
environmental assessment related to the critical     habitat proposal.   Those two documents are expected to be   published in the Federal  Register in late May and both  will be available for a 30-day public review and comment   period (see attachment for a full schedule of all  spotted owl recovery-related public information forums).

    
    A critical habitat designation identifies areas within the range  of a species at the time it is listed under the Endangered  Species Act that have the physical or biological features        essential for the conservation
of a species and that may require   special management.  For the spotted owl, these features include        particular forest types of sufficient area, quality, and configuration to support the needs of territorial owl pairs   throughout the year distributed across the species’ range,  including habitat for nesting, roosting, foraging, and        dispersal.   Federal agencies must avoid activities that  jeopardize listed species and  must ensure any action they        authorize, fund, or carry out does not destroy or adversely modify designated critical habitat.  A critical habitat  designation that includes private or other non-federal lands has  no direct effect on land uses unless there is a federal   connection, such as an activity that is funded or permitted by a        federal agency.  


        America’s fish, wildlife and plant resources belong to all of  us, and ensuring the health of imperiled species is a shared responsibility. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working to actively engage conservation partners and the public in the        search for improved and innovative ways to conserve and recover imperiled species. To learn more about the Service’s Endangered  Species program, go to http://www.fws.gov/endangered/.
       

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife,    plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the  American people. We are both a leader and trusted partner in    fish and wildlife conservation, known for our scientific          excellence, stewardship of lands and natural resources, dedicated professionals and commitment to public service. For          more information on our work and the people who make it  happen, visit www.fws.gov.  Connect          with our
Facebook page at
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YouTube Channel at
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The I Spy Radio Show

5/25/2012

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A “Best of” Show: The Growing Threat of Socialism
The I Spy Radio Show
www.kykn.com
karla@ispyonsalem.com

Saturday, 11a.m.-noon (West Coast time).
Listen live on KYKN (1430-AM) or, if you’re outside of the Salem (Oregon) listening area, go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button. 
 www.kykn.com
Guest:  Trevor Loudon, Investigative Journalist and author of Barack Obama and the
Enemies Within


This week:
  Trevor Loudon, investigative journalist from New Zealand, has been touring the US to warn people about the very real threat of socialists and communists and how they’ve managed to quietly influence and infiltrate society
and politics right here in America.  We go in depth with him about issues he doesn’t usually bring up in his presentations. You’ll hear why socialists target  healthcare and the environment—and firsthand stories about living in New Zealand under fully socialized medicine. We talk about Russia and even some predictions
of what Obama may do in order to try and win his second term presidency. 
 
Then,  starting June 2nd, listen to our three-part series on the federal land grab. The federal government owns or controls over 30% of American land.  This three-part series will cover how we got to where we are with the federal
government overreach, the Progressive Movement, and the erosion of our property
rights.  


Part I & II, our guest will be Dr. Michael Coffman, creator of the famous Wildlands Map.  


Part I will detail the history of our property rights starting in the early 1700’s all the way to today.  Part II is all about the outcomes and how it impacts us today.  Then in Part III, we take a look at the example of how this plays out by going to Coos Bay, OR where they’re currently fighting off a major land grab to
seize water ways.  


Have you heard our very popular “I Spy Minute,” aired weekdays at 10:00 a.m. during
KYKN’s peak listenership?
We’re looking for personal and corporate sponsorships to help keep these educational and informative minutes on the air. Are you a business owner (or know one) that would like “prime real estate” to advertise? We have two :30 ad spots following the I Spy Minute available,  but you need to contact karla@ispyonsalem.com or
marcia@ispyonsalem.com to take advantage of these.


The show will be aired on KYKN(1430-AM), this Saturday at 11:00 a.m., West Coast time.  If you’re outside of the Salem listening area, just go to www.kykn.com and hit the listen live button.  Busy on Saturday?  Not a problem. 
After the show airs, you can go to our webpage www.ispyonsalem.com and download it from our “past shows” page.

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Another Opinion on the O&C Land

4/23/2012

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Another Opinion on the O&C Land
The Walden/DeFazio scheme is an impossible dream.  This is being sold to the timber guys as a quick fix.  Can't happen. It would transfer stands of timber more than 125 years old to the USFS.  Stands younger than 125 years would go into a state trust to be administered by a board of trustees appointed by our environmental governor.  Stands of timber do not follow survey quadrangles meaning that each would have to be surveyed to effect a transfer.  How long will that take?  Are we to suppose that the folks who have blocked harvesting for 16
years will start harvesting if they are in charge?  The plan rewards the enviros for withdrawing all of this from timber production by creating 64000 acres of new wilderness and mining withdrawals that  accomplishing nothing beneficial. 
The wilderness lands cannot be seen by tourists on the Rogue.  The streams to be protected are not used by salmon/steelhead - too warm.  There is nothing in the scheme to recommend it but false promises.  I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.  If we must do away with the 1937 Act (why?), the best approach is the Hastings Bill HR 4019.

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