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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015
Timber: Some of the trees in the sale are more than 120 years old
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North Coast State Forest
Coalition, authored by co-
ordinator Chris Smith and
Trygve Steen, a professor
of environmental science at
Portland State University.
“These stages of ecological
succession are exceedingly
rare on (Board of Forestry)
lands on Oregon’s North
Coast and provide import-
ant conservation benefits.”
Smith said the Home-
steader timber sale is one
of the first the coalition
has ever opposed. The co-
alition usually advocates
for conservation at a higher
level, he said, and trusts the
management process stem-
ming from those decisions.
The coalition gathered
more than 1,600 comments
against the Homesteader
timber sale, part of which
it contends is valuable po-
tential habitat for the en-
dangered marbled murrelet,
whose presence has nixed
many a logging operation
on the West Coast, along
with the northern spotted
owl.
Years of work go into
deciding a timber sale. The
forestry department sur-
veyed between 2012 and
2014 for endangered spe-
cies in the Homesteader
area. Williams and Goody
said there were no marbled
murrelet found.
“We have surveyed this
area for 17 years without
seeing a marbled murrelet,”
Goody said, adding no spot-
ted owls have been sighted
either.
The report says the tim-
ber sales in Homestead-
ers would also hurt near-
by property values on the
Nehalem River, and that
there are less ecologically
valuable stands nearby that
could be substituted.
Many different biologists
and wildlife experts with
the forestry department and
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife played a part
in deciding the terrestrial
anchors, Goody wrote in
response to the coalition’s
study. “Since there are
many mature forest stands
Submitted Photo
Conservationists believe the large, old trees in these ar-
eas are of special significance.
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Area 2 of the proposed Homesteader timber sale.
on the Astoria district, some
are necessary to contribute
towards meeting economic
mandates required by state
law.”
What is old growth?
The coalition count-
ed some of the trees in the
Homesteader sale at more
than 120 years old. As only
0.1 percent of state forests
are old growth, the coali-
tion’s report says, the older
trees in Homesteader should
be spared. And the older
trees, the report adds, are
too large in diameter and
full of loose knots from old
branches to be optimal tim-
ber.
Williams said the trees
are at least 114 years old,
whereas the department’s
forest management plan
determines old growth at
175- to 200-year-old trees
on land that hasn’t been
managed for timber. Home-
steader, he added, was one
of the earlier tracts around
Jewell managed for timber.
“While these trees do not
meet the (forest manage-
ment practices) definition
of old-growth we will eval-
uate and look for opportuni-
ties to retain many of these
older trees as scattered
green trees or in clumps
throughout the sale areas to
provide a larger landscape
Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Dan Goody looks for a springboard notch in a Douglas Fir
that Goody estimates was cut down in the 1940s. Goody
said that studying these older trees is important because
it helps them determine what grows naturally in the forest
and how to best approach forestry efforts.
shoots for timber harvests
of 74 million board feet
a year, Goody’s and Wil-
liams’ department follows
the greatest permanent val-
ue rule, which sets a balance
of revenue, recreation and
conservation.
“You’re almost a social
manager walking the fine
line,” Williams said.
One of the great things
about the state forest,
Goody said, is it’s open to
everyone wanting to come
recreate.
Williams overseas the
recreation activities of the
forestry department, which
includes about 20 miles of
perspective,” Goody wrote
in his response to the coa-
lition. “The Astoria district
contains
approximately
14,000 acres of stands of
trees 80 years old and older.
The majority of these stands
(63 percent) are designated
for wildlife and conserva-
tion values.”
The forestry department
now prepares the vari-
ous proposed timber sales,
cruising to determine the
amount of timber and ready-
ing the infrastructure for
logging.
While
Balance
their
district
Submitted Photo
Members of the North Coast State Forest Coalition and
a professor of environmental science from Portland
State University contend that older trees in the Oregon
Department of Forestry’s Homesteader area would make
low-quality logs because of the old branches causing
loose knots throughout, and that they would be better left
standing for habitat conservation.
trails; even more off-road
vehicle tracks in places like
Nicolai Mountain; several
campgrounds; horse trails;
archery; hunting; and the
Astoria Demonstration For-
est behind the forestry de-
partment’s office, showing
forest management practic-
es on a smaller scale.
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