Senator Wyden and the Coos County Budget
Senator Wyden’s bill does not fix this problem. Wyden’s website says his bill will double the timber harvest on the O & C lands “compared to the last 10 years
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Possible preview of Wyden's forest resources bill
May be an elaborate hoax but here is a preview of Wyden’s forest resources bill
Read MoreConversations on the forest, tax equity and accountability
efforts are being made to place a statewide initiative on the 2016 ballot to address timber tax equity and accountability
Read MoreCounty contingency planning doesn't include tax equity for citizens
It is time to force this issue either through a citizen initiative or polite protest or downright civil disobedience or all of the above.
Read MoreDecades of evading laws led to timber woes
All that is really needed is to remove political expediency from the process and require the BLM to finally, after three decades, complete an O&C management plan in full compliance with NEPA and the ESA.
Read MoreMesserle exaggerates federal control in Coos County
Messerle is reported to have repeated the meme of lousy federal management at the recent GOP forum last week. Here are some facts. More than 899,000 acres are classified as forest, most of it privately owned and less than 252,000 acres are federal. Of the BLM lands including the Coos Bay Wagon Road the agency has met 150% of its ASQ for the last several years and magically still has trees standing so who is really the better steward of the land?
Read MorePrivatizing public lands is not the answer
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
Read MoreO&C/CBWR drama playing out to be more of a farce
There is a legislative hearing before the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands scheduled in Washington DC on September 22, 2011. If anyone has seen a legislative environmental impact statement regarding any of the many proposals floating about pertaining to changes in the management of the CBWR and the O&C, please let me know. I must have missed them.
Read MoreCongress should remove supervision of land issues from short-term political appointees
The post-war years saw a great boom in housing starts, and timber prices rose accordingly. The golden era of O&C timber receipts flowing to the counties had begun in a volume that exceeded all prior expectations.
Read MorePoor BLM logging practices cost counties timber revenues
The timber industry continues to pressure our management agencies to sell more timber in today’s soft market. It’s not because they’ve run out of their own trees. They push for more public logging because they make huge profits from the subsidy-laden manner in which our timber is sold.
Read MoreThe proper way to handle the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands
ather than spending time and effort pursuing what I believe to be a fruitless search for major legislative changes at the Federal level, Coos County should insist, demand, and facilitate the development by the BLM of a new management plan for the O&C/CBWR lands – one that fully complies with the letter and intent of NEPA and the ESA.
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