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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
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general tone after this summer
density” would also be re-
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moved from the plan, except
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in wildlife corridors.
lot of what people have said
here — we’ve got to do some-
Southworth asked the au-
thing.”
dience, including about 10
He added the revision
Forest Service employees, for
offers a wider discretion to
their questions and concerns
the districts to accomplish
regarding the Malheur; they
what needs to be done on the
were asked to include solu-
ground.
tions to the problems.
Beverlin said they are
Larry Blasing suggested
the Forest Service stop “mak-
looking at how they can adapt
ing the same mistakes and ex-
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pecting a different result.”
Taking turns speaking around the circle at the
He said 9.4 million acres
“Start working on this a public meeting on the revision plan are, from left,
Malheur National Forest Supervisor Steve Beverlin
burned across the West this
year.
piece at a time, and go back Larry Blasing, Mark Webb, Irene Jerome and Jim
answers questions at last Friday’s public meeting
Jim Boethin said he wants
in John Day.
and get rid of the eastside Sproul.
environmentalists to see what
screens — that will start re-
lieving a bunch of the prob- tion, taking into account local “train wreck.”
county and said he would sup-
Revision team leader Sa- the burned areas in Grant
lems,” he said.
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brina Stadler said she could County look like.
Eastside screens, origi-
He said that whatever ASQ homes, we damned near
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Beverlin said there is a relate, as the area she’s from
nally meant to be temporary, — or volume of board feet — burned a town, and that isn’t high chance such a plant in California also has a lot of business, huge business, and
were adopted in 1994 as a the Forest Service decides on, because of good management, would be built, and it would dead trees.
unnecessarily,” he said. “I
screening process to see that it “shouldn’t limit what we that isn’t because of good de- supply biomass to the Board-
“I feel for you all, how it look at Canyon Creek, the
proposed timber sales com- need to do on the ground.”
cisions,” he said.
man power plant as they tran- must feel to see your place place I grew up. It’s gone
plied with new environmental
forever — for my generation,
Jim Sproul said the plan is
His answer: “Coordina- sition to more green energy.
burn,” she said.
rules.
not going far enough.
tion, where local plans have
Tad Houpt said the solu-
Dave Traylor said, in the for my kids’ generation and
Mark Webb said timber
“That is not near enough equal footing,” he said. “Lo- tions are in the math.
past, it was loggers protecting generations after that. It’s
salvage should be treated the timber to be cut,” he said, cal knowledge is what’s need-
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His solution: “Harvest
same way as timber produc- adding the plan would be a ed to straighten this thing out. harvest more than it’s growing apparatus).
You can’t come out from the each year,” he said. “If you
“They went out and fought what is necessary and make it
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Peter Fargo, a Forest Ser-
Elaine Eisenbraun lauded the problem in 20 years — and walk away from it,” he
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He said Carnwath recently
perspective.
the forest which have burned,
He complained the Forest
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Grant County Commis- then burned again.
Service is answering to spe- presented a slide show reveal-
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ing how the landscape could
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ble new biomass plant for the preventable.”
said. “Look at the shape we’re due to the changing climate.
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in.”
Beverlin said they are ability to be nimble and re-
limited by rules, laws and sponsive in terms of manage-
ment,” he said.
screens.
Frances Preston chal-
“We have to balance it,”
he said. “We’re trying to man- lenged the County Court,
age the forest within the con- Beverlin and deputy Forest
Debbie Ausmus
Service Supervisor Ryan Nehl
straints we have.”
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she
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local residents’ wishes.
“It’s our responsibility to
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just who’s around this circle,
it’s how many people enjoy
our national forest,” he said.
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ously, there’s a weight in your
comments because you live
here, you know it and you live
it, and it personally affects
you — versus somebody that
isn’t here. We take that into
account.
“To do what we’ve done
in the past three years, and to
increase the pace and scale,
and three times the number
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— nobody else is doing that
in the nation,” he added. “In
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