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Timber: Three possible initiatives seek to restrict logging
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Even so, only 25 per-
cent said that clearcutting
was acceptable compared
to 45 percent who found it
unacceptable.
About 24 percent had a
neutral opinion and 6 percent
said they didn’t know, which
is a sizable amount of people
who can be swayed in an elec-
tion, said Mike Cloughesy, the
institute’s director of forestry.
On the ballot?
Public perceptions of for-
estry practices could impact
Oregon’s timber industry in
2016, as three prospective bal-
lot initiatives seek to restrict
logging and aerial spraying of
herbicides this year, he said.
Educating people about
legal requirements to protect
waterways and wildlife, as
well as practices that reduce
soil disturbances, can improve
their perception of clearcut-
ting, said Cloughesy.
The industry may also
consider using techniques to
make clearcuts less jarring
aesthetically, he said. “It’s
important that we do visual
management.”
It’s not always economi-
cally feasible to harvest trees
in way that’s pleasing to the
eye, but the added investment
can be worthwhile in areas that
are highly visible to the public,
according to experts at a recent
timber industry conference on
visual management.
Photos of denuded hillsides
and landslides have commonly
been used by environmen-
tal groups in campaigns, such
during elections for Washing-
ton’s Commissioner of Public
Lands, said Gordon Bradley, a
retired University of Washing-
ton forestry professor.
“This imagery is not with-
out consequence,” he said.
ate a transition to the unhar-
vested area, he said.
Another possibility is to
leave enough trees throughout
the harvest area so the change
in color and texture isn’t as
pronounced as with a clear-
cut, Bradley said.
Research has shown that
people tend to rate harvest
areas as visually accept-
able even when up to 70 per-
cent of the trees have been
removed, he said. “There’s a
signiicant amount of activ-
ity that can take place on the
landscape.”
‘Eye of the beholder’
Though it’s often said that
“beauty is in the eye of the
beholder,” research has shown
that people have similar pref-
erences and dislikes for cer-
tain landscape features, Brad-
ley said.
A guiding principle is
to “minimize discordance”
between the harvest area and
the surrounding landscape, he
said.
Clearcuts that have geo-
metric shapes with straight
lines and sharp corners are
more likely to contrast with
the organic, undulating shapes
of the hills and horizon, Brad-
ley said.
Irregularly shaped clear-
cuts that complement the scen-
ery and emulate natural mead-
Challenges
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Multiple ages of trees grow in Oregon’s Coast Range. For-
estry experts say the visual impacts of clearcutting can
be reduced to improve public perceptions of the industry.
ows are less visually grating,
he said.
“Squares stand out, but so
do triangles,” Bradley said.
“You want what you’re adding
to the landscape to it.”
Reducing the disparity
between the clearcut and sur-
rounding forest can also be
accomplished by “feathering”
the edges, or leaving enough
trees around the border to cre-
From the operational stand-
point, retaining trees within a
harvest area complicates log-
ging and timber extraction,
said Loren Kellogg, a retired
Oregon State University for-
estry professor.
Pulling logs out with a
cable is challenging when you
have to circumvent trees, par-
ticularly on steep slopes where
safety is already a concern, he
said.
Visual management gen-
erally involves more time and
planning, he said.
“All this stuff is going to
cost more to do it,” Kellogg
said. “The person doing the
work has to get compensated
for it.”
Retaining trees and man-
aging multiple ages within the
same stand also has implica-
tions for growth, said Doug
Maguire, an OSU forestry
professor.
As more trees are left on the
landscape, their shade slows
the regeneration of the next
generation of forest, he said.
Widely dispersed trees are also
more prone to being knocked
over by wind.
“It depends on how much
productivity you’re willing to
trade off,” Maguire said.
Greenwood
Resources,
which owns forests in North-
west Oregon near coastal
resort communities and sce-
nic highways, evaluates each
logging site based on its expo-
sure to the public, said Mark
Garrigues, a forester with the
company.
The harvest plans are ana-
lyzed to determine whether
they’ll disrupt the natural con-
tours of the skyline or other-
wise affect the “viewshed,” he
said.
While these considerations
haven’t stopped any opera-
tions, they do allow foresters
to modify their plans to reduce
visual impacts, Garrigues said.
“We’re not trying to hide what
we’re doing, we’re just trying
to take other views and per-
spectives into account.”
Gearhart: ‘We’re a small community with limited resources’
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Jesse said numbers are
slightly more than $250,000
for those 10 employees, or
$25,400 a year per employee,
averaging
$12.21
per
employee hour of work.
“We’re a small community
with limited resources,” Jesse
said. “Out of the total budget,
it’s a huge amount of money.”
The plan, contracted with
Citycounty Insurance Ser-
vices, “does have the best
rate for the type of plan we
have, but it was made to be a
Cadillac plan, so we’re going
to be making adjustments,”
Sweet said.
The employees’ health
care plan is set to expire at
the end of the year and would
be reviewed then, he added.
Other increases
The planning budget sees
increases as a result of trans-
portation system planning,
park master planning and
legal fees, Sweet said.
“That’s in anticipation of
some of the short-term rental
conversations we’re having
now,” Sweet said.
Building inspection fees
will jump by more than a
third in anticipation of new
rules on short-term rentals,
with a part-time administra-
tive assistant planned to han-
dle some duties.
The City Council is in the
midst of public hearings on
registration and licensing of
transient properties — those
rented for less than 30 days
— which could be adopted
this year.
Part-time Building Ofi-
cial Jim Brien will be used as
a consultant in the irst year
before considering money for
a full-time code enforcement
oficer, Sweet said.
“Until I know what nor-
mal is, I don’t want to hire
someone,” Sweet said. “I’ve
put aside $40,000 in code
enforcement. It depends if the
council allows 35 permits, or
allows everybody to do it or
somewhere in between. If
we go to zero permits, we’ll
have to igure out how to ind
funding, but that’s for con-
versations later. I’m basing
this on our best guess at this
point.”
City revenue is derived
from property tax, franchise
fees for companies such as
utilities and transient rental
tax dollars, Sweet said. He
anticipated about $140,000 in
vacation rental income based
on the 73 short-term rental
properties tallied by the city.
“If the number goes to
zero, we’ll have to discuss
that,” Sweet said.
The
city
receives
$200,000 from condos and
hotels, he added.
Nonprofit support
Gearhart’s budget includes
funds for a wide variety of
Clatsop County nonprof-
its, including social services,
environmental management
and hazard mitigation.
A budget line of $10,000
addresses a mapping of sen-
sitive areas such as wet-
lands and fens. The North
County Land Conservancy
will inventory land in Gear-
hart and provide informa-
tion on how they perform and
what the city can do to main-
tain them, City Administra-
tor Chad Sweet said. “It’s not
regulatory, but when there is
an incursion in these areas,
the city can do what it needs
to repair them.”
The city will provide sup-
port of $2,000 for the Oregon
Badge Foundation in honor
of Jason Goodding, the Sea-
side police oficer killed in
February.
The budget also includes
expenditures for the Seaside
Youth Center, Animal Con-
trol, the South County Food
Bank and the Harbor.
Hazard mitigation reserve
funds increase from $5,000
to $10,040, to be used on
signs, cache storage, maps or
projects with the city’s Com-
munity Emergency Response
Team.
The budget was unani-
mously approved by the City
Council and the Budget Com-
mittee and will be presented
for a reading at a future City
Council meeting for a vote by
the council alone.
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