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Oregon Logging Conference
Resolution # 2004-1
A Resolution Supporting Sustainable Management
of State Forest Lands
The Oregon Logging Conference Urges Governor
Ted Kulongoski and the Oregon State Legislature to fund the Oregon
Department of Forestry to implement sustainable Forest management on state
owned forestlands like the Tillamook and Clatsop and to increase harvest
levels from these lands to 329 million board feet per year.
WHEREAS, the Oregon Department of Forestry is one of the most
efficient and well-managed of all state agencies in Oregon government.
WHEREAS, the State of Oregon state forest lands comprise an area of
approximately 650,000 acres.
WHEREAS, State owned forest lands currently produce 176 million
board feet of timber per year.
WHEREAS, the State forest lands are biologically capable of
sustainably producing 493 million board feet of timber per year.
WHEREAS, the state’s own forest management plan promised to
sustainably produce 279 million board feet per year
WHEREAS, increasing the annual harvest on State owned forest lands
by 3 percent would sustainably produce 329 million board feet of timber
per year.
WHEREAS, the State of Oregon state forest lands are a $5 billion
asset that have the potential of providing an extra $107 million in timber
receipts a biennium to Oregon schools and other programs based on a
harvest level of 329 million board feet.
WHEREAS, increasing the harvest on State owned forest lands to the
level mandated by the state’s own management plan for the Tillamook,
Clatsop, and other state forest lands is a way to help schools, and
assorted state and local programs, and aid in Oregon’s economic recovery.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, members of the Oregon Logging Conference
request it to be a top priority of Governor Kulongoski and the 2004 State
Legislature to provide adequate funding to the Oregon Department of
Forestry to implement the state’s forest management plan and to direct the
Board of Forestry to increase the timber harvest on state owned lands to a
sustainable harvest level of 329 million board feet per year.
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