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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2017
Wildfi re season sparks calls for forestry reform
Lawmakers
seek changes to
federal policy
By GEORGE PLAVEN
EO Media Group
PENDLETON — Out
of the ashes of another
record-breaking wildfi re sea-
son across the West, Ore-
gon lawmakers are calling for
changes in the way national
forests are managed and how
the government pays for fi ght-
ing increasingly large, destruc-
tive fi res.
U.S. Rep. Greg Walden,
the state’s lone Republican
member of Congress, vis-
ited Pendleton and Hermiston
on Thursday where he touted
the Resilient Federal Forests
Act of 2017, which passed the
House Committee on Natural
Resources in June. The con-
troversial bill includes provi-
sions that would expedite cer-
tain forest thinning projects,
while establishing a pilot pro-
gram to resolve legal chal-
lenges through arbitration.
U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden
and Jeff Merkley, meanwhile,
joined a bipartisan group of
senators pushing to end the
practice of “fi re borrowing,”
where the Forest Service and
Bureau of Land Management
are forced to rob money from
fi re prevention programs to
pay for fi ghting wildfi res.
Their bill, the Wildfi re
Disaster Funding Act of 2017,
would make federal disaster
Genna Martin/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The Eagle Creek Fire was one of several devastating wildfires in Oregon this year.
funding available when the
cost of fi refi ghting exceeds
the 10-year average, thereby
maintaining the agencies’ bud-
gets for other conservation and
restoration programs.
In a statement Wednes-
day, Wyden said communi-
ties are put in danger and fi re
prevention work is left undone
because of the backward fi re
budgeting system.
“It’s past time for Con-
gress to make it a top priority
to end fi re borrowing, stop the
erosion of the Forest Service
becoming the ‘Fire Service,’
and start treating wildfi res like
the natural disasters they are,”
the Oregon Democrat said.
The Forest Service has
spent more than $2 billion so
far on wildfi res nationwide in
2017, setting a new record.
Nearly 8 million acres of for-
est have been consumed by
fi re this summer, including
678,000 acres in Oregon.
Lack of management
The problem, Walden said,
is a lack of active manage-
ment in the forests, which has
resulted in a buildup of overly
dense and dead tree stands
ready to burn.
“I don’t want to see our
forests continue to go up (in
fl ames) like they are,” Walden
said during a meeting Thursday
with the East Oregonian edito-
rial board.
More than three-quar-
ters of the Umatilla and Wal-
lowa-Whitman national forests
are at moderate to high risk for
uncharacteristic fi re, according
to the Northern Blue Moun-
tains Coalition, a group dedi-
cated to increasing forest thin-
ning and logging. Across the
country, 58 million acres of
national forests are at high or
very high risk of severe wild-
fi res — an area equal to the size
of Pennsylvania and New York
combined.
“We’ve got to deal with
these forests,” Walden said.
A version of the Resilient
Federal Forests Act has passed
the House each of the last four
years. It focuses on measures
to speed up the pace of res-
toration, providing categori-
cal exclusions for certain proj-
ects to expedite environmental
review.
Projects that would qual-
ify for categorical exclusion
include hazardous fuels reduc-
tion, salvaging dead trees, pro-
tecting watersheds or improv-
ing wildlife habitat. The bill
caps project sizes at 10,000
acres, or 30,000 acres if they
are developed by a multi-inter-
est collaborative group.
Beach cleanups target trash on the coast
Volunteers help
preserve the
environment
The Daily Astorian
Hundreds of volunteers
came to Cannon Beach, Sea-
side and Gearhart beaches Sat-
urday for the annual SOLVE
Beach and Riverside Cleanup .
More than 4,600 volun-
teers joined the event state-
wide, which collected an esti-
mated 72,000 pounds of trash
and marine debris from 140
project sites .
According to SOLVE,
cleanups took place along
all 362 miles of the Oregon
Coast.
In addition to removing
litter, invasive plants were
cleared from 2.5 acres of nat-
ural area.
In Seaside, SOLVE and the
Seaside Lions met at the Turn-
around at 10 a.m. and contin-
ued efforts through the early
afternoon.
In Cannon Beach, vol-
unteers joined SOLVE and
Pacifi c Alarms Systems for
the cleanup.
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Cleaning up in Seaside.
In Gearhart, cleanup teams
went to Del Rey Beach in
Gearhart. Among items sal-
vaged was a car exhaust pipe,
SOLVE reported.
The most common items
found during the event were
tiny bits of plastic, cigarette
butts, fi shing rope, glass bot-
tles and plastic bottles. Items
found by volunteers included
a door and $20 at the Salmon
Headwaters Cleanup at Tim-
berline, 20 large Styrofoam
blocks in the Multnomah
Channel and two bikes along
Bear Creek Greenway in
Medford.
SOLVE was originally
about stopping litter, but as the
years have passed, their mis-
sion has focused in on how
volunteers can make a differ-
ence with the environment and
build a legacy of stewardship,
Quintin Bauer, program direc-
tor of volunteers, told mem-
bers of the Seaside Downtown
Development Association this
spring.
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ple together and we want to
improve the environment,”
Bauer said. “We want to get to
the heart of this and stop peo-
ple from leaving their trash on
the beach.”
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Financial resources
tors has introduced the Wild-
fi re Disaster Funding Act to
ensure the fi refi ghting bud-
get does not eat into the fi re
prevention budget, and allow
projects to proceed with
greater fi nancial resources.
In the same joint state-
ment with Wyden, Merkley
— an Oregon Democrat —
said it is time to reverse what
has become a vicious cycle.
“The way we fund wild-
fi re suppression today is
counterproductive
and
crazy,” Merkley said. “As
this fi re season has proven
all too vividly, robbing from
forest health and fi re pre-
vention programs to pay for
suppression only creates a
vicious cycle of bigger and
bigger fi res.”
The bill would work by
capping the fi refi ghting bud-
get at the most recent 10-year
average, with any additional
funding for fi ghting wildfi res
coming from federal disas-
ter relief coffers. That would
place wildfi res more in line
with other natural disas-
ters, such as the hurricanes
that have devastated parts of
Texas and Florida.
Supporters include other
Western lawmakers from
across the political aisle,
including Idaho Republi-
cans Mike Crapo and Jim
Risch; Colorado Republican
Cory Gardner and Democrat
Michael Bennet; California
Democrat Dianne Feinstein;
Washington state Democrat
Maria Cantwell; and Utah
Republican Orrin Hatch.
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The bill also directs the Sec-
retary of Agriculture to estab-
lish a pilot program to resolve
lawsuits fi led against forest
management through arbitra-
tion, rather than heading to
court, and would prevent plain-
tiffs from recovering their attor-
ney fees in such cases under the
Equal Access to Justice Act.
Opponents of the legisla-
tion, however, claim it would
severely undermine environ-
mental review and cater to the
interests of the timber indus-
try. Steve Pedery, conserva-
tion director for Oregon Wild,
described the bill as a wish list
for timber lobbyists.
“It’s really about maximiz-
ing the profi ts of logging cor-
porations over the health of our
public lands, and the ability
for Americans to enjoy them,”
Pedery said.
Speaking earlier this month
to the House Energy and Com-
merce Committee, Walden
urged support for the bill as a
means to jump-start forestry
reform.
“Year after year, we have
catastrophic wildfi res on fed-
eral lands, some of which have
been set aside and managed in
a way that they have no man-
agement,” Walden said. “So if
you want to do something that
is extraordinarily important,
join us in reforming the way
we manage our precious pub-
lic lands and federal forests to
reduce the fuel loads.”
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