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| About the Oregon Board of Forestry |
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- Board Members
- 2009 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, Staff Reports, Audio Meeting Files, and Minutes
- 2008 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, Staff Reports, Audio Meeting Files and Minutes
- 2007 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, Staff Reports, and Minutes
- 2006 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes
- 2005 Meeting Schedule, Agendas, and Minutes
- Enjoying Oregon´s Forests
- Forest sustainability
- Forestry Program for Oregon
- 2001 symposium
- Your comments
- Links
The Oregon Board of Forestry...
- Supervises all matters of forest policy within Oregon
- Appoints the State Forester
- Adopts rules regulating forest practices
- Provides general supervision of the State Forester´s duties in managing the Oregon Department of Forestry.
The seven-member citizen Board is appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the state Senate. No more than three members may receive any significant portion of their income from the forest products industry. At least one member must reside in each of the state´s three major ODF administrative regions east, south and northwest. The term of office is four years and no member may serve more than two consecutive full terms. The State Forester serves as secretary to the Board.
It is the Mission of the Oregon Board of Forestry to... lead Oregon in implementing policies and programs that promote environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable management of Oregon´s 28 million acres of public and private forests.
To achieve our mission, it is the Vision of the Board of Forestry that Oregon will have...
- Healthy forests providing a sustainable flow of environmental, economic, and social outputs and benefits.
- Public and private landowners willingly making investments to create healthy forests.
- Statewide forest resource policies that are coordinated among Oregon´s natural resources agencies.
- A Board of Forestry recognized as an impartial deliberative body operating openly and in the public interest.
- Citizens who understand, accept, and support sustainable forestry and who make informed decisions that contribute to achievement of the vision of the 2003 Forestry Program for Oregon.
- Adequate funding for the Department of Forestry to efficiently and cost-effectively accomplish the mission and strategies of the Board of Forestry, and department personnel policies that encourage and recognize employees, allowing them to meet their full potential in providing excellent public service.
Board of Forestry Advisory Committees
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| 2009 Board of Forestry Issue Scan |
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Conducted every two years, the issue scan provides the public with an opportunity to provide input for the Board’s use in planning its work and updating its overarching strategic document, the Forestry Program for Oregon.
The bigger picture. The issue scan is one of several key information sources that the Board uses in setting its work priorities. Others include:
- The Forestry Program for Oregon. The Forestry Program for Oregon is built on seven strategies or goals, adapted from internationally recognized criteria, for discussing and assessing sustainable forest management. The current Forestry Program for Oregon was released in 2003; an update is due for completion in 2011. In its update, the Board has agreed to continue with the seven overall goals, but expects to revise the underlying objectives.
- Oregon Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management. These indicators, organized around the Forestry Program for Oregon goals, are intended as measuring sticks to evaluate progress toward forest sustainability. They were developed by a broad-based work group, and are intended for wide use among policy makers and the forestry community.
- The Board’s current work plans. These plans form the basis of Board work.
Useful documents
2009 Board of Forestry Issue Scan
The open comment period for the 2009 Board of Forestry Issue Scan closed on May 22, 2009. After they have been compiled and are ready for consideration, comments will be posted and available on this web page.
Next steps
Department staff will analyze the submitted comments, with emphasis on their context within existing goals, strategies, indicator data, department work and Board work plans. A work group, which the Board has named using its existing issue scan procedures, will review the material and make recommendations to the Board later this year.
At its September 9 meeting, the Board will review the issue scan input and the working group recommendations, along with other information, including a progress review of current work plans and work products, and the department’s annual key performance measure report.
The Board may choose to prioritize the issues, bundle them into larger categories, request more information on some issues, or choose to take no action on certain issues at that time. The Board will then work toward a consensus on priority issues, and proceed with its work planning and Forestry Program for Oregon revision processes.
Work group members. The following group, including representatives of various interest groups as indicated in parentheses, has been named. The three committees named are existing advisory groups to the Board.
- Larry Giustina, Board of Forestry member
- Peter Hayes, Board of Forestry member
- Commissioner Tim Josi, Tillamook County (Forest Trust Land Advisory Committee)
- Susan Watkins, woodland owner (Committee for Family Forestlands)
- Tally Patton, Weyerhaeuser Co. (Northwest Regional Forest Practices Committee)
- Paul Adams, Oregon State University College of Forestry (Academia)
- Bob Van Dyk, Wild Salmon Center (conservation community)
- Barrett Brown, Oregon Motorcycle Riders Association (forest recreation community)
- Scott Fogarty, Friends of Trees (urban forestry community)
- Bobby Brunoe, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs (public member)
Information on previous issue scans
2007 Board of Forestry Issue Scan
2005 Board of Forestry Issue Scan
Questions?
If you have questions about the 2009 Board of Forestry Issue Scan, please contact:
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| Board of Forestry Decision System Process |
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In order to fairly utilize the time commitments required of a member of the Oregon Board of Forestry, it is incumbent that the Board structures its activities to be as efficient and productive as possible. A well-defined systems-based approach to decision-making can offer the ability to manage an increasingly more lengthy and complex set of issues.
In this context, a systems-based approach is defined as one that ensures that the Board’s work reflects the following specific characteristics that lead to an effective forest policy setting body:
- Provides transparency for all Board activities
- Outlines a predictable sequence of events for any decision-making effort
- Is a process that is agreed to and understood by all Board members
- Facilitates the Boards ability to exercise leadership, manage conflict, and create a high level of forward thinking
- Encourages policy-making that is adaptive and responsive to rapidly changing needs and concerns
- Utilizes both Board and staff time as efficiently and effectively as possible
- Fully integrates the use of sound science
- Is recognized by stakeholders as a place to be fully heard and understood
- Maintains the Board’s commitment to consensus decision-making
- Allows new Board members to effectively contribute as quickly as possible
- Is focused on creating results
- Is efficiently documented
- Supports continuity
- Fully aligns with the Board’s statutory responsibilities
Here is more information about the Board of Forestry Decision System:
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| Board of Forestry Work Plans |
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Here are the latest versions of the Board of Forestry Work Plans:
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| Sustainable Forestry Indicators |
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Summary
In 2003, the Oregon Board of Forestry revised its strategic forest policy document, the Forestry Program for Oregon, and incorporated into state policy an internationally recognized framework for measuring and discussing sustainable forest management.
In March of 2005, the Board of Forestry's ad hoc Sustainable Forest Management Advisory Committee was appointed from a broad range of stakeholders and given the charge to:
1. Coordinate with technical experts to reach both strong policy and technical consensus on a set of recommended sustainable forest management indicators for use in measuring Forestry Program for Oregon implementation progress.
2. Solicit and summarize broad stakeholder input on both the usefulness of the recommended indicators and potential desired future outcomes for these indicators.
3. Provide advice to the Board of Forestry both on recommended indicators and desired future outcomes.
4. Provide advice to the State Forester on future Forest Assessment Project priorities.
The committee developed indicators for biological diversity, forest ecosystem health, social and economic benefits, forest productive capacity, soil and water resources, and legal and institutional frameworks (matching the seven strategies in the Forestry Program for Oregon).
Additional information about the committee and the project, including background, project planning, committee membership and meeting information, and core indicator development, can be accessed on the web page for the Sustainable Forestry Indicators Project. Information on the final indicators that were endorsed by the Board of Forestry, including data reporting and trends, can be found on the website for Oregon's Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management.
About the photos used on this web page:
All of the photos on this web page were taken by Arlene Whalen, Public Affairs Specialist with the ODF Agency Affairs Program, at the Hinkle Creek Research and Demonstration Area in southern Oregon. Hinkle Creek is a cooperative research project jointly being conducted by Oregon State University and Oregon Department of Forestry on private lands owned and managed by Roseburg Forest Products.
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