Murrelet populations are declining steadily, as is their breeding habitat. Oregon has the opportunity to provide for these birds while also ensuring timber jobs through either thinning young plantations or entering into an agreement called a “habitat conservation plan” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Read MoreThey aren’t pretty pictures with damaged creeks, road failures and landslides and call into question the tribe’s forest management practices despite their commercial FSC certifications. Eatherington sent the link to the photos to Jason Robison in order to give the tribe an opportunity to dispute any captions attributed to the photos. Robison didn’t deny any of Eatherington’s claims but instead responded with a list of bizarre questions.
Read MoreCommissioner Cam Parry traveled to Washington, DC last week along with Coquille tribal representatives, according to an email, “speaking to representative & senate staff (along with resource foks) about the concept of joint management of 51,000 acres of Wagon Road land with the Coquille Tribe.
Read MoreQuackenbush says only 18% of the forest is locked, however, Francis Eatherington of Cascadia Wildlands says when including the marked timber sales and buffer zones that closer to 80% of the Elliott is now restricted from public use.
Read MoreCoos County commissioners are working toward transferring management and or title of federal BLM timberland known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road to the Coquille Tribe. The reason given is the tribe, as a sovereign nation, will be able to cut critical habitat more aggressively.
Read MoreThe disregard for private property and older public rainforests comes at a time when ODF wants to double the logging on the Elliott as part of its proposed Forest Management Plan, which remains under heavy scrutiny by the public and groups like Cascadia Wildlands. The state is expected to make a final decision on the clearcutting increase by the end of the year.
Read MoreAfter days of unanswered phone calls to Jim Young of the local district Oregon Department of Forestry office, Barbara Shamet has taken her plea to court. This morning Shamet dropped of a petition for an injunction to stop the logging at the Millicoma Between Sale citing a 2009 pre-op report that lists this location as a ‘high landslide hazard’ that threatens her home.
Read MoreThe question becomes who is ODF really working for? Clearly they are not working to obtain the maximum amount of revenue for the Common Schools Fund and they seem to have no conscience about creating a high landslide hazard by clear cutting a rainforest with high carbon sequestration value that will endanger adjacent homeowners.
Read MoreHow did the Millicoma Between timber sale occur outside of the public view and in apparent disregard of public safety? An Alleghany family may find their drinking water destroyed and their home threatened by mudslides unless the public have a chance to weigh in on what appears to have been a backroom deal between ODF and the timber company logging the Millicoma Between sale.
Read MoreOregon Dept of Forestry’s plan to convert the Elliott State Forest from a Habitat Management Plan which requires scientists and biologists to sign off in favor of a Forest Management Plan which does not require scientific support. If the proposed plan goes into effect it will break, after only fifteen years, a sixty year commitment by ODF to protect habitat.
Read MoreYou claim the foreign corporation can not do anything on my property until they get my consent. What you really mean is, with a wet-land fill permit on my property, they can force consent with eminent domain easier, paying us an unfair low payment for their forced used of our land — forced use perhaps by a foreign government
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