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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019
New council will advise
governor on wildfi re response
Recommendations
expected to Brown
by this fall
By CASSANDRA
PROFITA
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
Gov. Kate Brown says
the state needs to do more
to reduce the threat of
wildfi re. She spoke Mon-
day at the fi rst meeting of a
new council she created to
improve the state’s wild-
fi re response capabilities.
The 19-member coun-
cil is made up of repre-
sentatives from the tim-
ber industry, a variety of
businesses, environmental
groups, local governments,
fi refi ghting and public
health agencies. The group
will meet regularly before
making recommendations
to the governor this fall on
how the state can improve
its approach to wildfi re.
“We know many thou-
sands of acres of forest-
land are unhealthy due to
past management prac-
tices, and we know we
must do more,” Brown
told the council. “Every
single fi re season since
I became governor has
been a historic fi re sea-
son. Each season we’ve
seen unprecedented dam-
age to our homes, liveli-
hoods and Oregon’s natu-
ral environment.”
Brown said bigger and
more frequent wildfi res are
putting lives at risk while
wildfi re smoke is com-
promising public health.
She created the Wildfi re
Response Council to make
sure the state is following
all the best practices and
investing in the tools, tech-
nology and resources it
needs to prepare for wild-
fi res and fi ght them.
“I am personally and
professionally not will-
ing to accept this pattern of
wildfi re and drought, and
I don’t think anyone else
in the room is, either,” she
said. “We have to be pro-
active to get ahead of this
threat.”
Oregon Fire Marshall
Jim Walker and State For-
ester Peter Daugherty
also spoke to the coun-
cil and emphasized the
need to re-evaluate how
the state responds to wild-
fi re and how that response
is funded.
“We’re a can-do agency,
but we are challenged by
the increasingly complex
wildfi re season,” Daugh-
erty said. “Fire is our No.
1 priority, but as our staff
spend more time fi ght-
ing fi re our resources are
increasingly stretched and
other work is left behind.”
He and other leaders
talked about the long-stand-
ing collaboration between
the Oregon Department of
Forestry and the U.S. For-
est Service and a desire to
increase the pace of for-
est restoration through an
ongoing federal forest res-
toration program.
Oregon has two dozen
forest collaboratives that
work with local communi-
ties on ways to reduce wild-
fi re risk.
Daugherty noted this
year Oregon updated its
smoke management rules,
which should allow for
more prescribed burning to
reduce fi re risk on forest-
land throughout the state.
The council’s agenda
included a presentation
from U.S. Forest Service
scientist Paul Hessburg,
who said prescribed burn-
ing creates 50 to 90 percent
less smoke than wildfi res.
He also noted Ore-
gon needs to dramatically
increase the acreage it is
treating with prescribed
burns to cover 40 to 50
percent of the landscape
to reduce the risk of cata-
strophic fi res in the future.
Right now, he said, the
number of acres burned by
wildfi re is expected to triple
or quadruple in the next 30
years.
“This isn’t settling out,”
Hessburg said. “It’s just
increasing right now.”
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A worker at Rogue Farms cuts hop vines in preparation for harvest.
US hop stocks dip 2 percent as
supply, demand align in market
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Capital Press
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Over
widely available but still
growing to meet demand,
many breweries scrambled
to contract those new variet-
ies so they would not be at
the mercy of a short market
and an over-reliance on spot
hops, she said.
This was at the same
time the Brewers Associa-
tion projected that craft beer
would have a 20% market
share by 2020, which was an
overestimation, she said.
“So, in a sentence, we
had an overcorrection hap-
pening at the same time as a
market slowdown — still a
growing market, but growth
had slowed down consider-
ably,” Brophy said.
The National Agricul-
tural Statistics Service report
shows 130 million pounds
held by dealers and growers
on March 1 and 35 million
pounds held by brewers. That
compares to 132 million and
37 million held a year earlier.
A lot of breweries are
taking advantage of more
frequent just-on-time ship-
ments to save on space, Bro-
phy said.
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Precipitation
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Year to date .................................... 13.93"
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 74°/41°
Normal high/low ........................... 54°/39°
Record high ............................ 74° in 2019
Record low ............................. 27° in 1971
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MOXEE, Wash. — U.S.
hop stocks totaled 165 mil-
lion pounds on March 1,
down 2% from 2018 after
three years of increases.
“With any swing in the
market, history has shown
time and time again there is
bound to be an overcorrec-
tion. This is a sign the mar-
ket is balancing back out,”
said Jaki Brophy, spokes-
woman for the Hop Growers
of America and the Wash-
ington Hop Commission,
both in Moxee.
Washington state pro-
duced 73% of the nation’s
hops in 2018, with Idaho at
15% and Oregon at 12%.
Production was pushed
upward for years by 20%
annual growth in the craft
beer industry. But the
growth of craft beer has
slowed to 5% a year since
2015, resulting in the growth
of hop inventories.
In
December,
Pete
Mahony, vice president of
supply chain and purchas-
ing for John I. Haas Inc. in
Yakima, said hop consump-
tion appeared to be keeping
pace with supply, a positive
sign.
The industry hopes that’s
the case, preventing oversup-
ply and a downturn in prices,
but there are a lot of variables,
Ann George, administrator of
Hop Growers of America and
the Washington Hop Com-
mission, said in December.
The supply of some
aroma hop varieties is still
expanding to meet craft
brewery demand, while the
supply of other varieties is
shrinking because it has met
demand, she said.
In 2015, few hops were
available on the spot (uncon-
tracted) market because of
“lower yields due to unfa-
vorable weather and too
many new or fast-growing
breweries relying too heavily
on spot hops either due to a
lack of knowledge in the hop
procurement process or an
unexpected quick growth in
their brewery,” Brophy said.
Additionally, with more
varieties becoming more
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