NOVEMBER 2007: FORUM
Timber wars could use a cease-fire
Kudos to Oregon
Business for its insightful article about timber
issues in Oregon and how they are impacting Oregon communities
[TIMBER WOES
CONTINUE IN EAST, October].
The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a new forest
management plan that would better balance the economic needs of
using our forestlands as a tax base with the demands of
conservation groups.
Locking up these lands for non-use, as the conservation groups
have been very successful in doing for years, has resulted in
the mismanagement of forestlands in Oregon, leading to the
increase in wildfires in recent years.
In an increasingly global economy, we need to seek a less
adversarial approach to the raw material needs of our local
wood products businesses, to keep Oregonians working here
instead of shipping our jobs overseas and importing our wood
products.
Suzanne L. Penegor
Owner, Great Northwest Trucking Services
Eugene
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