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John Kitzhaber says. “Trouble is brewing in par adise,” Kitzhaber told a national foresters’ group Monday. “Land management practices over the last century have changed the face ofthe state.” Speaking at the Society of American Foresters’ annual meet ing in Portland, Kitzhaber said overgrazing and cutting of old growth timber threaten the ecolog ical stability of forests as well as delicate plants and animals. “Conversion of native grass lands to agricultural uses and har vesting of old growth forests has destroyed habitat that many sen sitive species depend on for their survival,” he said. Kitzhaber said one thing he’s learned in 19 years in public office is that “forestry has the power to change the world, to make it a bet ter place for the creatures that pop ulate this planet.” He said the Northwest Forest Plan adopted by President Clinton in 1994 has had some good effects but remains controversial. “Although things are much calmer in the woods and in the communities than they were sev en years ago,” he said, “there is still a great deal of tension sur rounding the plan. “The plan creates this tension by on the one hand acknowledg ing that any additional harvest of old growth forests will further threaten sensitive species... while on the other hand expecting this same old growth forest to provide 80 percent of the projected timber volume over the next 20 years.” Kitzhaber said the plan meets only two of four natural resources principles followed in Oregon. Thqse are to use the best science available and employ a “land scape” approach of considering all factors in a forest decision, such as health of streams and other wildlife habitat, not just managing on a project-by-project basis. Kitzhaber said the plan also falls short because it “has not had ecosystem restoration as its prima ry goal” and because it was devel oped in a closed setting without enough input from affected par ties. Bill Banzhaf, executive-vice president of the 16,000-member organization, said it has no basic quarrels with any of the forest management principles cited by Kitzhaber. “His comments on ecosystem health seemed in the context of re alizing the need for a healthy for est products industry,” Banzhaf said. A broad “landscape” approach to forest problems also is desir able, he said, “as long as the inher ent rights of property owners are understood.” Banzhaf said public feedback is necessary in forming agreements like the forest plan. “We have always felt problems like this need to include a commu nity component,” he said. “There were some political solutions in the forest plan and those are now coming back to roost. ’ ’ The governor said he wasn’t suggesting that the federal plan be discarded but rather that it needs revisions. “Although the plan is far from perfect, we should not forget that it ended the gridlock that ruled the federal forests in the Northwest six years ago,” he said. Senate votes down logging funds cut By John Hughes The Associated Press WASHINGTON— The Senate voted 54-43 Tuesday to reject a proposal that would have cut $33.6 million from the Forest Service timber and roads budget to help complete surveys of rare plants and animals in the Pacific Northwest. The proposal by Sen. Richard Bryan, D-Nev., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., also required the Forest Service to finish a plan for car rying out the surveys by mid February — nearly four months sooner than the agency planned. Republicans argued that reduc ing the fund that the Forest Ser vice uses to prepare timber sales would hurt the agency’s ability to prevent forest fires and harm the logging industry. “The amendment will throw a monkey wrench into a program that is already in trouble,” Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said on the Senate floor today. The Forest Service’s failure to adequately conduct surveys for 77 rare species prompted U.S. District Judge William Dwyer of Seattle to put 217 million board feet of timber sales on hold last month — an amount equal to one-fourth of the total annual harvest allowed under the North west Forest Plan. Wyden said Forest Service of Keep MUSIC in your life at the University of Oregon Do you sing or play an instrument? Use it or lose it! 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UO Music website: http://musicl.uoregon.edu Faculty Concert: Tuesday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m., Beall Concert Hall (UO students free) ficials told his staff they need about $10 million to get the sur veys on track and to help devel op methods for finding some of the obscure organisms. In addition, he said placing a stringent timetable on complet ing the surveys would help the environment and timber workers. “We would finally have some real accountability and some real deadlines to make sure that these important obligations — both in terms of environmental protec tions and in terms of meeting economic needs for rural com munities — are addressed,” he said Monday. Bryan and Wyden tried to amend their proposal to a $14.1 billion interior appropriations bill pending on the Senate floor. They would have cut the For est Service fund for preparing timber sales by $32 million and reduce funding for new road con struction by $1.6 million. In addition to the $10 million the senators would use for sur veys, they would send $10 mil lion of the cuts to the U.S. Trea sury, use $5.3 million for road maintenance and spend $8.3 mil lion for fish and wildlife pro grams. The Senate last week amended the Interior bill with a proposal by Craig and Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash., that allows the agencies to meet the survey requirements next year with existing data rather than through new re search. Environmentalists want House conferees or the Clinton adminis tration to reject the Craig-Gorton amendment, saying it would en courage the Forest Service to skip the surveys in an effort to boost logging. The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan, written in the wake of fights over the threatened north ern spotted owl, broadly dictates the level of logging and other ac tivities on Forest Service and Bu reau of Land Management land in western Washington, western Oregon and northern California. The plan requires agency offi cials to examine the levels of mollusks, lichens and fungi in expected habitat areas to make sure that logging qr other activi ties won’t harm the species.
