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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.
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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-
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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
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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.
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