Coquille Valley Wildlife Area temporarily closes June 1

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.

Coos Bay/North Bend: Wednesday, May 4, North Bend Public Library, 1800 Sherman Avenue, North Bend

Fish and Wildlife Commission delists wolves statewide in split vote (4-2) ‏

Official Inquiry:

Where did the wording originate for the portions of H.R.2647 that concern the Coos Bay Wagon Road Land? 

Why was the CBWR land added to this bill? 

Who did Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff meet with to discuss adding the language concerning the CBWR land?   

Who has Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff met with from Oregon concerning H.R. 2647, or the sections in H.R. 2647 concerning the O&C Land & CBWR Lands? 

Who has Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff, met with from Oregon, in particularly from Coos County, concerning any public lands? 

Where is the authority documented in the US Constitution giving your office, the US Congress, and the federal government to not only own this land, but allow another “sovereign nation” manage those lands? 

Link to the Bill in question, H.R. 2647
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2647/text