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Problems with Wyden-Merkley forest plan

Eastside Forest Bill Reintroduced: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) has reintroduced a bill in Congress that would permanently ban large tree harvest, and then promise to seek more acres of “thinning” in Eastern Oregon national forests. This slight of hand, would still subject the thinning projects to the same legal barriers and conflicting laws that currently hamstring federal timber harvest. S.220, ‘Oregon Eastside Forests Restoration, Old Growth Protection, and Jobs Act’. The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and is scheduled for a May hearing.

Court Rejects Industry Road Runoff Appeal: On May 17th, an 11-judge panel of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unexpected and damaging ruling that would define forest road runoff as a source of water pollution. The panel concluded that ditch water runoff from logging roads, on four Tillamook State Forest timber sales, is a so-called “point source discharge”—for which a federal Clean Water Act permit would be required from the EPA. The panel confirmed a 2010 Ninth Circuit ruling, which had reversed the district court’s ’08 rejection of the pollution claim brought by an environmental lawsuit (NEDC v. Brown). It is likely that the defendants and intervenors—Oregon’s State Forester and Forestry Board, four timber purchasers, OFIC and AF&PA—will appeal this wrong-headed decision, possibly to the US Supreme Court. This heinous ruling overturns a 35-year old precedent about every US forest road considered an unregulated non-point source. Stay tuned for more legal action and remanding this matter back to the District Court—because if this harmful ruling remains unchallenged, nationwide ramifications would result.

Coquille Tribe Seeks BLM Forests: The Coquille Indian Tribe has proposed managing nearly 60,000 acres of federal forests in Coos County. That eventually might mean more revenue for Coos County government, and more jobs in the local wood-products industry. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar endorsed an experimental project earlier this week, where the Tribe and Bureau of Land Management will collaborate on a so-called “pilot project” timber sale offered within the next 12 months. It’s an opportunity to explore timber sales with fewer federal restrictions.

Seneca Celebrates, Greens Protest: Seneca Sawmill Company held a ceremony and public tour of its wood-fired biomass cogen plant, recently built alongside its Eugene sawmills. When the plant fires-up, heat will be used in its lumber dry kilns and surplus electricity will be sold to Eugene Water & Electric Board. Three of a dozen protesters were arrested outside the facility for disorderly conduct during the ceremony.

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