State to enter new planning phase
Fciitar's Note This is the first in .——
a series of articles on the Land
Conservation and Development
Commission.
By GREG WASSON
Of the Emerald
Escapees from California and
the East worked with Oregon
residents — who wanted to
avoid repeating the horrors the
transients had fled — to pass
Oregon’s revolutionary land
use legislation in 1973: SB 100.
The legislation established an
appointed board, the Land
Conservation and Development
Commission, and charged it
with developing state-wide
goals for the use of every
square-foot in Oregon.
The goals, which reflected
what the Commission had
decided after hours of public
testimony, were to achieve an
optimum mix of agricultural, re
sidential, industrial and forest
land.
Once these goals were es
tablished, localities were
required to drav/ up more de
tailed plans for their area and
submit them to the LCDC. The
agency was to ensure that local
plans met state-wide goals.
That process is almost com
plete. And with the state about
to enter a new phase of land-use
planning, the LCDC is poised to
accept a new role. The question
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of what that role shall be figures
to be a major legislative battle
this session.
Needless to say, there have
been large Oregon interests
unhappy with the idea of the
state having any say in how
localities use their land.
In 1976, opponents, backed
largely by development and
realty interests, attempted a
repeal at the ballot box. They
failed. Two years later they tried
again and lost by an even
greater margin
According to House Majority
Leader Grattan Kerans, D
Eugene, those endorsements at
the polls were expressions by
the voters that the beaches of
Lincoln County belong to every
one in the state, not just the
people who live there.
“We have, through those
referenda, declared that we are
in the same lifeboat together —
we're in a lifeboat called Earth —
and we've only got the one ves
sel."
Kerans allows that the LCDC
is, in part, a redefinition of the
word independence. But, he
says, that redefinition is neces
sary
"The question is one of do we
have the independence to des
troy permanently the vessel that
we’re in or should we owe our
allegiance to another, and I
think higher, form of
independence, and that is the
ability to succeed ourselves
with future generations."
According to Eldon Hoet,
Forum debates fate of timber
By GABRIEL BOEHMER
Of the Emerald
Forest service and timber in
dustry representatives and con
servationists traded opinions on
the future of the Willamette Na
tional Forest Wednesday even
ing.
The cutting of old-growth
timber in the 1.6 billion-acre
Willamette National Forest has
sparked conservationists’ inter
est in the forest’s resource
management plan.
The timber industry is asking
the forest service to allow in
creased cutting of old-growth
timber. Conservationists claim
the timber should be protected
as a national resource and that
some wildlife depends on its
protection for survival.
The National Forest Man
agement Act (NFMA) of 1976
requires the planning process
for the Willamette forest to be
completed by 1985.
Conservationists say they
doubt the plan will be put into
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effect by that time.
"I’m afraid it’s going to turn
out like the space shuttle and be
three years behind schedule,"
says Sierra Club representative
Jack Desmond.
Planning has been hindered
by confusion over the definition
of old-growth timber, Desmond
explains.
"Nobody really agrees what
old growth is."
Getting the forest service to
acknowledge old-growth timber
as a national resource is the top
priority of the conservationists
involved in the planning
process.
"With the forest service plan
we have a chance to change the
forest plan of the Willamette,"
Desmond says.
The forest service has defined
approximately 395,000 acres of
Willamette National Forest
timber as old growth, but
Oregon Wilderness Coalition
associate conservation director
Andy Kerr believes there could
be as much as 1,000,000 acres.
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Kerr attributes the difference
in figures to the "inherent bias
of the bureaucracy.”
The majority of the forest ser
vice staff is employed for
timber-cutting issues and not
for recreational or resource is
sues, he claims.
legislative liason for the LCDC,
most opposition to the concept
of state-wide planning comes
from those with a financial in
terest in development.
Hoet says that the LCDC
process took the decisions out
of the backroom and put them in
the cold light of the hearing
process, a process that makes
some uncomfortable.
Tomorrow: The three major
legislative plans to redefine the
LCDC.
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