Roy Keene, forest consultant and MGx contributor, spoke at a recent City Club luncheon in Eugene which aired on KLCC and you may listen to the entire program with guests Andy Stahl and Faye Stewart here. Below is a clip which speaks powerfully about the dangers of giving over more public land to private interests and the unfair tax valuation placed upon the rest of us while giving corporate timber operators tax relief. Keene also discusses raw log exports.
[audio:http://mgx.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Roy-Keene.mp3|titles=Roy Keene]Below are satellite images of the O&C checkerboard in 2011 and 1988 as a comparison to visually explain why private timber industry must now seek more public timber having logged all the private lands non sustainably.
Roy Keene of Eugene has worked as a forest consultant and timber broker in Oregon’s private forests for 35 years.
