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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2016
Oregon timber harvesting decreased in 2015, says forestry report
Book sale
this weekend
The Friends of the Siuslaw
Public Library will be sponsor-
ing a book sale today, Aug. 6,
and Sunday, Aug. 7, at 1460
Ninth St.
The sale opens to the public
on both days at 10 a.m., and
runs until 4 p.m.
The book sale will be held in
the Bromley Room of the
Siuslaw Public Library.
Memberships to the Friends
of the Library can be pur-
chased at the sale.
Marilyn Wetstein, chair-
woman of the book sales, urges
everyone to take advantage of
the excellent prices for books,
CDs and DVDs.
Since joining the Friends
just a year ago, Wetstein has
become an important contribu-
tor to the sales. The most
recent event she organized was
in February, which raised
$2,287.
“It’s a lot of work but highly
gratifying,” said Wetstein. “I
like to see books not on the
shelves but in peoples’ hands.”
A popular feature of the
book sales is the table of spe-
cial books run by Geraldine
Mcmahon. This table will be
set up in the library lobby and
Mcmahon will be on hand to
talk about the passion of her
life: books.
This sale has 230 boxes of
books to set out with another
20 boxes still on the shelves.
Duane
Fowler,
who’s
worked on the book sorting
and sales for 10 years, finds the
boxes stacked head high. These
all have to be moved into the
Bromely Room and onto the
tables. A cadre of hard work-
ing, dedicated volunteers takes
care of that chore on the Friday
before the sale.
Fowler is also active in
stocking the sale shelves in the
Friends Book Store inside the
library left of the entrance.
This corner store includes
greeting cards, books, maga-
zines, audio books and music
CDs.
Magazines sell for 25 cents
each or five for $1. Hardback
fiction is $2 and paperbacks
are $1. Nonfiction, children’s
books, audio books and CDs
are individually priced as are
the note cards which are made
from material culled from the
library.
decrease in harvest on national
forests in western Oregon.
State forestlands increased
from 230 million board feet in
2014 to 290 million board feet in
2015, for an overall 26 percent
increase in timber harvest.
Private industry harvest
decreased statewide by ten per-
cent from 2014 to 2015 to 2.36
billion board feet.
These decreases were present
on both sides of the Cascades,
but were most prominent on the
west side, as a percentage, where
private industry harvest declined
by approximately nine percent.
Non-industrial
private
landowners had an approximate
19 percent decrease in harvest,
statewide, for a 2015 total of 453
million board feet. Harvests on
Native American forestlands
decreased approximately nine
percent from 57 million board
feet in 2015 to 52 million board
feet in 2015.
The decrease in timber har-
vest was largely driven by the
slowdown in exports to Asia.
Along with the decrease in log
exports, the expiration of the
Softwood Lumber Agreement in
the fourth quarter led to an
increase in imports of lumber
from Canada, affecting demand
for Oregon logs.
Finally, an active fire season,
along with a wet and warmer
than usual winter, created issues
for logging and hauling.
The 2015 Oregon Timber
Harvest Report is available
online at www.oregon.gov/
ODF/Pages/Reports.aspx.
Note: One board foot of lum-
ber is one foot wide, one foot
long, and one inch thick, or the
equivalent in volume.
Construction of an approxi-
mately 1,800 square foot house
requires about 10,000 board feet.
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After two years at slightly
above 4 billion board feet,
Oregon’s timber harvest dropped
below that in 2015 to a number
on par with the 2012 harvest,
according to the Oregon
Department of Forestry’s annual
timber harvest report, issued last
week.
From 2014 to 2015, there was
an approximate decrease in har-
vest of eight percent, for a 2015
total of 3.79 billion board feet
harvested.
Decreases occurred across all
ownerships except for state-
owned forest lands.; approxi-
mately 49 percent, or 30.2 mil-
lion acres, of Oregon is forested.
Federal forest lands account
for 60 percent of these forest
lands, industrial forest lands for
19 percent, family forest land
owners own 15 percent, state-
owned forests comprise three
percent, and all other forest land
owners (counties, Tribal, etc.),
three percent.
Bureau of Land Management
recorded a decline of eight per-
cent from 2014 to 2015.
Likewise, the U.S. Forest
Service experienced an overall
statewide decrease of five per-
cent, from 386 million board
feet to 367.
However, the U.S. Forest
Service saw an increase of
approximately 14 percent on
Oregon’s east side, notably in
Grant and Harney counties,
where stewardship contracting
work is underway on the
Malheur National Forest — the
second consecutive year of
increases in locations where
these collaborative agreements
are in place.
These east-side harvest levels
were offset, however, by the