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Logging
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tainty as to how much
harvesting
will
take
place.”
Most of the salvage
logging is to be prepared
and sold by June 30, 2021.
Oregon Department of
Forestry spokesperson
Jason Cox said there were
three active timber sales
which were being cut in
the forest at the time of
the fire, including one
that was in the footprint
of the fire.
"On the sales that we-
ren't in the burned areas,
those weren't affected,"
Cox said.
The forestry depart-
ment says it plants about
250,000 seedlings in an
average year, roughly
enough for 500 acres of
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initial planting. To ac-
complish the reforesta-
tion needs, it will need
about 3 million seedlings
and another 3 million to 4
million seedlings for
long-term reforestation.
Over 1 million acres of
Oregon forests were
scorched in the Labor Day
wildfires. An estimated
40% of the damage oc-
curred on private timber
land. Early estimates put
the economic impacts of
the wildfires at $1 billion.
Trees weren’t the only
structures damaged by
the wildfires.
In the 190 miles of road
inside the perimeter of
the wildfires in the San-
tiam State Forest, 79
miles of road have hazard
trees that need removal,
including 43 miles with
high numbers of hazard
trees.
There have been 19
sections of road that will
need some restoration
work, including debris re-
moval, road repair and
bank stabilization. And
112 of 1,254 culverts in the
fire-damage area need re-
placement and 234 more
will require maintenance.
The state opened a 30-
day public comment peri-
od on the plan Monday
and it runs through 5 p.m.
on Dec. 23. Comments on
the plan can be submitted
at
https://www.ore-
gon.gov/odf/recreation/
pages/comment.aspx, by
email
at
odf.sfcom-
ments@oregon.gov or in
writing at ODF Public Af-
fairs, 2600 State St., Sa-
lem, OR 97310.
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A burned
hillside outside
of Gates,
Oregon.
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JOURNAL
The Oregon Department of Forestry has developed a plan to salvage log parts of
the Santiam Forest damaged in the wildfires. ABIGAIL DOLLINS / STATESMAN JOURNAL
Mink
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Oregon has the na-
tion’s
fourth-largest
farmed mink industry, af-
ter Wisconsin, Utah and
Michigan. All three of
those other states have
had outbreaks on mink
farms.
State and national en-
vironmental groups have
been raising alarm about
possible infections Ore-
gon’s mink industry, the
Statesman
Journal
reported last week.
“This was so foresee-
able,” said Lori Ann Burd,
with the Center for Bio-
logical Diversity, one of
the groups urging Oregon
to take action. “We’ll cer-
tainly be following up
with the agency to de-
mand answers and to find
out what they’re doing to
mitigate this outbreak
and public health risk.”
In letters to Gov. Kate
Brown and state agen-
cies, the groups asked for
immediate inspections of
Oregon’s mink farms, as
well as quarantines and a
phased buy-out of the in-
dustry.
At that time, state offi-
cials said they did not in-
tend to take any of the
groups’
recommenda-
tions. Oregon’s state vet-
erinarian has been com-
municating with mink
farmers about the out-
breaks, Cantu-Schomus
has said.
“We have been en-
gaged with the Oregon
mink industry for some
time, providing informa-
tion on biosecurity to pre-
vent the introduction of
SARS-CoV-2 and were
ready to respond,” State
A mass grave is prepared as Danish health authorities, assisted by members of the Danish Armed Forces, work to dispose of dead mink in
a military area near Holstebro, Denmark, Monday, Nov. 9 2020. Denmark will cull about 17 million mink after a mutated form of
coronavirus that can spread to humans was found on mink farms. MORTEN STRICKER, AP
Veterinarian Ryan Scholz
said in a written state-
ment Friday.
“The farmer did the
right thing by self-report-
ing symptoms very early
and he is now cooperat-
ing with us and the Ore-
gon Health Authority in
taking care of his animals
and staff,” Scholz said.
“So far, we have no re-
ports of mink mortalities
linked to the virus but
that could change as the
virus progresses.”
In Wisconsin, about
3,400 farmed mink have
died over the past month
after contracting the vi-
rus. And in Utah, about
10,000 mink have died
since August.
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In addition to Den-
mark and the United
States, COVID-19 infec-
tions have been reported
in farmed mink in the
Netherlands, Spain, Swe-
den, and Italy and
Greece, according to the
World Health Organiza-
tion.
All of the mink in the
Oregon outbreak appear
to have recovered, Cantu-
Schomus said. ODA will
test the mink 7-10 days af-
ter symptoms resolve,
and, if necessary, con-
tinue testing every 14
days until no more infect-
ed mink are found.
The sample size will be
significantly larger and
will ensure with a 95%
confidence level that if
the virus was present it
would be detected, she
said.
“It is suspected that
infected workers intro-
duced SARS-CoV-2 to
mink on the farm, and the
virus then began to
spread among the mink,”
Cantu-Schomus said.
ODA is working with
OHA, the Oregon Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife,
U.S. Department of Agri-
culture and the Centers
for Disease Control to in-
vestigate transmission
dynamics among mink,
other animals around the
farm, and people, she
said.
Last week, ODA offi-
A mink at a Denmark estate where all minks must be culled due to a government
order on November 7, 2020. Ten samples from mink in Oregon were found to be
positive for SARS-CoV-2, the animal virus linked to COVID-19.
OLE JENSEN / GETTY IMAGES
cials said they had no
plans to do inspections or
test mink unless symp-
toms were reported. Can-
tu-Schomus was unable
to say Friday whether
that is still the case.
Michael Whelan is ex-
ecutive director of Med-
ford-based Fur Commis-
sion USA, a national non-
profit representing mink
farmers.
He said the group is of-
fering free COVID-19 test-
ing to farm operators and
employees.
“All we can do is just
keep reminding the farm-
ers that this is serious
and they have to screen
all people that get any-
where near the mink,”
Whelan said.
Cantu-Schomus was
unable to say how many
farmed mink there are in
Oregon.
“There is no evidence
that animals, including
mink, are playing a sig-
nificant role in the spread
of COVID-19 to people,”
she said. “Currently in the
U.S., there is no evidence
of
mink-to-human
spread. However, investi-
gations are ongoing.”
Tracy Loew is a report-
er at the Statesman Jour-
nal. She can be reached at
tloew@statesmanjour-
nal.com, 503-399-6779 or
on
Twitter
at
@Tracy_Loew.