Wednesday, April 29, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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Lecture targets forest management practices
By Jodi schneider McNamee
Correspondent
Dealing with fire in the
forest is a hot topic in Sisters.
On Tuesday evening at
The Belfry, Sisters Science
Club hosted the last Frontiers
in Science lecture series of
the year: “Sustainable Forest
Management Practices, or…
Why is there Smoke in My
Blue Sky?”
The 7 p.m. symposium
was free to the public and
every seat in The Belfry was
taken.
John Bailey, associate
professor of silviculture at
the Oregon State University
College of Forestry, began
with a focus on fire history
and fire ecology during the
past century and how that
affects the restoration treat-
ment practices in our forests
today.
“Fire is a natural and inte-
gral part of our forests in this
part of the world, there was a
lot of fire for centuries. Fire
was all over the place, all of
the time. Fire scars are unde-
niable evidence,” said Bailey.
After 1900 though, fire
suppression was the order of
the day.
“There was a lot of natu-
ral historic fire in this area
on a regular basis before the
times of fire exclusion, and
we are now paying the price.
Climate change will only
make it worse,” Bailey said.
Bailey discussed the new
research behind ways to man-
age Pacific Northwest forests.
“There is emerging sci-
entific consensus that fuels
management and restora-
tion treatments in second
growth, old clearcuts (also
known as plantations) and
other younger forests can be
done in a manner that will
reduce fire hazard as well as
landscape-level fire risk, and
which accelerates the devel-
opment of old forest habi-
tat. Such conditions reflect
the evolutionary history and
ecology of frequent low- and
mixed-intensity fire in dry
conifer forests and allow us
to restore fire as a fundamen-
tal process in sustaining a
resilient forested landscape in
Central Oregon.”
The Sisters Ranger District
is in the planning stages to
restore 25,000 acres on Green
Ridge, north of Sisters. Will
Brendeke, a silviculturist at
Sisters Ranger District, dis-
cussed the forestry aspect of
the Green Ridge Landscape
Restoration Project.
“In the past 100 years, the
forests of Green Ridge have
been altered by timber har-
vest, livestock grazing, fire
suppression, and fire exclu-
sion,” Brendeke said. “These
activities have changed the
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patterns of vegetation, fuels,
and disturbed regimes to the
degree that the landscape can
no longer function as it did
historically. To restore struc-
ture and function of these
dynamic, disturbance-prone
forests we propose to con-
serve habitats and restore the
ecological structure, compo-
sition, and processes of the
eastside forests, including
fire by thinning prescribed
fire, road closures, weed pre-
vention and other restoration
activities.”
Many folks were engaged
in discussion directly fol-
lowing the lecture on how
they felt about what Bailey
and Brendeke had to say in
relation to sustainable forest
management in the Sisters
area.
“The message for me by
the Forest Service was that
some level of forest fire is
good for the overall health
of the forest,” said Sisters
resident Doug Smith, owner
of Central Oregon Timber
Frame. “Man does not
have the budget or physical
resources to extinguish all
fires in the forest. Therefore,
we as the public users of for-
est lands need to understand
and support a forest manage-
ment approach that estab-
lishes a balance of effort to
fight some fires and coexist
with others.”
Sisters High School
teacher Jon Renner said,
“I think it’s really great
that these foresters attend
town meetings like this and
try to explain some of the
complicated issues that they
face every day, especially in
a community like ours that
(is) so close to the forests. We
the message for me
by the forest service was
that some level of forest
fire is good for the overall
health of the forest.
— doug smith
have people living in the for-
est and it’s important for peo-
ple to know this information.
And to have these guys come
in here and have a question-
and-answer period is terrific.”
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National Day of Prayer
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