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5A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2016 Timber: Trump likely won’t bring new mills to Oregon wildlife, prioritizing preserva- tion of old-growth forests on which the owl relies. The plan also, on paper, allows for considerable log- ging, but those logging levels have never been met because of the environmental damage they were expected to cause. That has prompted increased criticism of the Northwest For- est Plan. Experts differ on how much harm the federal logging cut- backs did to timber employ- ment. Some studies found that jobs were lost because of mill automation not environmental rules. Federal officials have begun to consider revisions to the Northwest Forest Plan, Geisinger said. “It’s anti- quated,” he said of the plan. Continued from Page 1A long-standing key environ- mental laws. Enforcement of that law and the National Environmental Policy Act were key in the late 1980s and early 1990s to halting the intensive, widespread logging that had prevailed for decades on federal forests in western Oregon, western Washington and Northern California. The Northwest Forest Plan, implemented by the Clinton administration in 1994, has severely restricted logging on federal lands in the region ever since. But undoing the Northwest Forest Plan and rolling back environmental laws are not necessarily easy tasks — even with a Republican in the White House and a GOP-controlled House and Senate. Facts ‘incomplete’ ‘Cautiously optimistic’ Timber interests in Oregon welcome Trump as president. “We’re cautiously optimis- tic it’s going to present some opportunities for us to put people back to work in rural communities and certainly to improve the health of our for- est,” said Jim Geisinger, execu- tive vice president of the Asso- ciated Oregon Loggers. “For the last two decades, we’ve just seen too many catastrophic wildfires, too many mills close, too many rural communities fall apart socially and economi- cally, and I think this will be an opportunity to restore some of that.” The Salem-based trade association represents 1,000 logging companies in Oregon. For 40 years, Geisinger has been a voice for logging in the state, traveling to Washington, D.C., to speak about how fed- eral policies affect the industry. Cause for concern The worry among environ- mental groups contrasts the optimism of timber interests in regards to how Trump and the officials he appoints will man- age public forests. Possibilities for agricul- ture secretary, who over- sees the U.S. Forest Service, include Texas Agriculture Sec- retary Sid Miller, and possibil- ities for interior secretary, who oversees the Bureau of Land Management, include for- mer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Lucas Oil co-founder For- rest Lucas, according to news reports. All of them lean toward resource extraction rather than preservation. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a sheet of talking points and notes as he speaks during a rally in Eugene in the spring. He read statistics about Oregon, with timber topping the list. Federal forests in western Oregon are split between the Forest Service and the BLM. “We don’t think Trump has a mandate to weaken environ- mental protections or return to old-growth clearcutting on public lands,” Arran Rob- ertson, spokesman for Ore- gon Wild, wrote in an email. The Portland-based nonprofit group advocates for old-growth protection. “Clearly, those were not major issues in the presidential campaign,” he wrote. “How- ever, there are certainly folks in the logging industry who feel the time is ripe to repeal the Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, etc. … and prioritize their interests in public lands over other values (like tourism and recreation, clean drinking water and wildlife).” For decades, environmental groups brought and won law- suits based on the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmen- tal Policy Act and other envi- ronmental laws. “Everything appears to be on the table at this point,” said Josh Laughlin, executive direc- tor of environmental group Cascadia Wildlands in Eugene. “I would like to think that the decades of progress that have been made, in terms of safe- guarding the values that these unique landscapes in the North- west and that the laws pro- THE DAILY ASTORIAN T HURSDAY E VENING A (2) (-) (-) (6) (-) (8) (9) (10) (12) (13) (-) (20) (-) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) L KATU KOMO KING KOIN KIRO KGW KRCW KOPB KPTV KPDX KCPQ TBS KZJO ESPN ESPN2 NICK DISN FAM FMC LIFE ROOT FS1 SPIKE COM HIST A&E TLC DISC NGEO TNT AMC USA FOOD HGTV FX CNN FNC CNBC BRAV TCM SYFY RFD (2) (4) (5) (-) (7) (-) (3) (10) (12) (-) (13) (20) (22) (29) (30) (31) (32) (34) (35) (36) (38) (39) (43) (44) (45) (46) (47) (48) (49) (50) (51) (52) (53) (54) (56) (57) (58) (61) (63) (64) (65) (162) 6 The GOP held onto its slim majority in the Senate in last week’s election. Republicans have 51 out of the 100 seats and may win one more in a Decem- ber run-off in Louisiana. Dem- ocrats have 46 seats, and inde- pendents hold two. Trump talks timber AP Photo/Ryan Kang Protesters hold up signs in protest of a visit by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in Eugene in May. vide, will be upheld through the power of the people.” Oregon’s delegation Both senators and four out of five Oregon congressmen are Democrats. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, is the lone Republican representing Oregon. Some in the past have care- fully calibrated their positions, calling for more logging on fed- eral lands, but also increased environmental protections — two seemingly contradictory goals. “Sen. (Ron) Wyden will continue to stand up for clean air and clean water, will keep working to find real solutions to bring jobs back to rural areas and continue fighting to protect Oregon’s and the nation’s trea- sured public lands,” Keith Chu, a spokesman for the Oregon Democrat, wrote in an email. Resistance in Congress could be enough to stop changes to environmental laws, Travis Joseph, president of the American Forest Resource Council, wrote in an email. The Portland-based asso- ciation advocates for sus- tained-yield timber harvests in public forests. “Even under Republican control, it’s difficult to imagine Congress will make major revi- sions or changes to (the) ESA or the Clean Water Act,” he wrote. “Those changes would take 60 votes in the Senate, and those votes aren’t there. How- ever, federal timber harvests can be meaningfully increased in a manner that is entirely con- sistent with the ESA and Clean Water Act.” During his May visit, Trump read to the audience at the Lane Events Center facts his statisti- cians compiled for him about Oregon. Timber topped the list. “Timber is a crucial industry but it has been hammered by — oh, why are we surprised? — by federal regulations, right?” Trump said. “Oregon lost three- fourths of its timber mills since 1980. Is that possible? Three- fourths? That is a lot of timber mills, right?” Since then, Trump has pro- vided no specifics about how he would change regulations. Protection of the northern spotted owl — which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 — and old-growth timber contributed to the timber indus- try’s drastic decline in Oregon. Ruling in a lawsuit brought by environmental groups, a federal judge halted most log- ging on federal lands west of the Cascades summit. Then, the federal government put the Northwest Forest Plan in place to protect the owl and other LISTINGS A - Charter Astoria/ Seaside - L - Charter Long Beach Trump’s choices for pub- lic-lands posts will lead that revision. “It’s too early to tell what a Trump administration will look like, who will serve in key posi- tions and what the priorities will be,” wrote Joseph of the Amer- ican Forest Resource Council. “But the Northwest Forest Plan is already being revised by the Forest Service, and the Trump administration will play a sig- nificant role in the development of a new plan.” The numbers Trump used about timber when he visited Oregon — three-fourths of the mills closed since the 1980s and half of the timber jobs cut since 1990 — are reasonably correct, “but they are incom- plete,” said Ernie Neimi of Nat- ural Resource Economics in Eugene. For decades, Neimi has fol- lowed the timber economy in Oregon. He said the state used to have many more smaller mills. As the industry moved to larger mills and more automa- tion, the number of mills and jobs dropped. Even if Trump, his Cabinet and lawmakers change federal forest regulations, Geisinger said he doesn’t expect to see new mills opening around Oregon. Instead, he said timber com- panies would likely first add shifts and then upgrade their existing mills if the federal government allows more har- vest on public lands. It typi- cally costs millions of dollars to build and equip a new mill. “People are not going to make that investment with a veiled promise that the timber is going to be there,” he said. Evening listings THURSDAY N OVEMBER 17 PM 6:30 7 PM 7:30 8 PM 8:30 9 PM 9:30 10 PM 10:30 11 PM 11:30 KATU News at 6 Jeopardy! 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