Oregon Forest Practices Seminars
Friday, February 20, 2009
Lane County Fairgrounds
8:30-10:30am

1. Rick Barnes, President, Barnes & Associates, Inc. of Roseburg, OR. Jack Tennehill Stewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Roseburg, OR Rick will be joined by a Stewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry

2. Slash Burning Done Right & Legal
Dave Cramsey, Forester, Roseburg Resources Co. of Veneta, OR. Link Smith, Unit Forester, Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Veneta, OR

"Logging Small Woodlands: Many Issues, Many People", Rick Barnes, President, Barnes & Associates, Inc. of Roseburg, OR; and Jack Tannehill, Stewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Roseburg, OR. This presentation will cover important forest practices and fire prevention aspects of what a logger should know about harvesting small timber tracts, of the non-industrial variety. Topics discussed will include landowner objectives, reforestation obligations, working near homes or urban interface areas, legal property and rights-of ways, and dealing with the many obstacles found when logging woodlots.

Rick Barnes is President of Barnes & Associates-a Roseburg forestry consulting firm providing professional forestry services to small woodland owners, industrial land owners and government agencies. Prior to starting his consulting business in 1992, he was Timber Manager for C&D Lumber Co. in Riddle for 10 years, and Timber Sale Administrator for Eugene F. Burrill Lumber Co. in White City for 4 years.

He graduated from Oregon St. University in 1978 with a BS degree in Forest Management, and completed his MBA at Southern Oregon St. University in 1981. Rick is a Certified Forester by the Society of American Foresters.

Rick and his wife Audrey own and manage their 1262 acre Nickel Mountain Tree Farm, certified under the American Tree Farm System. The property includes a 600 acre open-pit nickel mine, plus 660 acres of forest land. Once managed only for mining, the Barnes has restored the land into a productive forest.

He is actively involved with the American Tree Farm System, as a Qualified Inspector, District Chair, OR Tree Farmer of the Year judge. Rick is served as Society of American Foresters (SAF) Umpqua Chapter Chair, SAF State Chair, Foundation Chair, Council, and recognized as a SAF Fellow. Rick also served as Oregon Chair of the Assoc. of Consulting Foresters of America, and on the Douglas County Planning Commission. He is currently President of Douglas Forest Protective Assoc. Board, member of Douglas County Woodland Advisory Committee, Board of Forestry Committee for Family Forestlands, member of Douglas & Oregon Small Woodlands Associations, and member of Associated Oregon Loggers.

Jack Tannehill works with both small and industrial land owners, as a Stewardship Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF). The contract loggers have included the largest all the way down to the smallest. He began working as a Forest Practices Forester in ODF's Roseburg office in September 1990. Previously, he worked for Roseburg Forest Products as a Contract Logging Supervisor from 1971-90, and was responsible for large & small contract logging operations in the South Umpqua and Cow Creek drainages. During the winter, he also laid out roads and harvest units on company land.

Jack graduated from University of Idaho in 1971, with a Bachelors Degree in Forest Resource Management. He grew up on a homestead in Malta, Idaho, where his parents created a 260 acre farm out of desert sagebrush. Jack is married to his college sweetheart of 39 years, Cherill, and they have two daughters and one grand child.

Those logging jobs on small woodlot properties demand a whole different set of challenges for the harvest contractor. The landowner seldom has any understanding of forestry or their obligation to plant trees after logging. And the small tract is typically riddled with minor issues that can quickly explode into major problems, if they aren't addressed ahead of time. There are easements, fences, boundary misunderstandings, upset neighbors, favorite trees, powerlines, and unrealistic owner expectations-to name a few of the challenges. Key bases to cover are the contract agreements, surveyed boundaries, accurate maps, and preventing timber trespass.

As a forestry consultant, Rick will tell of his experiences working together with woodlot owners, loggers, timber purchasers and State Foresters. Jack shares his years of perspective about forest practices and fire prevention regulations-and how to best work with small woodland jobs to make sure proper notification, roading, harvest and reforestation happens. It takes a special logger to cover the many issues and people when contracting on small tracts.

"Getting Slash Burning Done Right & Legal", Dave Cramsey, Forester, Roseburg Resources Co., Veneta, OR.; and Link Smith, Unit Forester with Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Veneta, OR. Dave and Link will explain the many aspects of treating slash for burning, such as: notification, fees, piling, pile burning, unit burns, new smoke management rules, and monitoring. These fellas will talk about new methods, things that work or not, other options, working together to burn, best practices, rule considerations, unit differences, what to do during logging to make the slash treatment easier, and how changes in the smoke rules affect burning.

David Cramsey has been the District Forester for the Vaughn Area of Roseburg Forest Products since 1997. He manages industrial forestlands in Lane, Benton and Douglas Counties. Slash disposal and burning are principle considerations on RFP lands for purposes of long term fire prevention and silvicultural benefits. Cramsey was involved in the most recent review of Oregon's Smoke Management Plan and related rule changes, working directly with OR Forest Industries Council and OR Dept. of Forestry (ODF). Prior to working for Roseburg Forest Products, David was employed in a variety of reforestation, inventory and contract administration roles in Western Oregon and Northern California. He has a BS in Forest Management from Oregon St. University.

Link (Grant) Smith has been Protection Unit Forester for the Oregon Dept. of Forestry, Western Lane District for three years. He currently oversees both the fire and private forest programs at Districts' headquarters in Veneta. Prior to this, he spent seven years as a Stewardship Forester for the West Oregon District in Toledo. As Stewardship Forester, Link worked daily with harvest contractors and landowners to assure compliance with the Forest Practices Rules, reforestation, industrial fire prevention, and slash burning. He moved to the Oregon Department of Forestry in 1992, fighting fire for the Southwest Oregon District in Grants Pass. Link's fire and forestry career began in 1985 with the California Department of Forestry in Susanville, CA.

Link and Dave have prepared a great talk about slash burning. Many logging and forest contractors are involved in burning logging slash, long after the timber has been sent to the mill. Whether the harvest unit is on an industrial contract or a couple landing piles on a small woodlot job, there are many burn considerations, such as preparing slash, piling, broadcast, conducting a burn, and reporting burn results. As Oregonians are getting more sensitive to smoke pollution, the State's forest smoke management rules have gotten more complex-with a new revision in 2008. Oregon Dept. of Forestry regulates forest burning; and loggers who burn must work closely with their local ODF foresters for burning permits and schedules.

This presentation covers the need-to-know aspects of burning slash, from the perspective of the logger or a contractor that does some pile burning after the logging is done. Burning requires a whole different permit and rule system, so every logger should pay attention to how their logging job affects the slash clean-up work that follows harvesting. Maybe you'll hear a thing or two about what to do during logging to make slash disposal easier for planting and fuel reduction.