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Public vs. Private logging
The Oregon Department of Forestry supposedly enforces the Oregon Forest Practices Act.
This clearcut did not include the required two trees per acre retention - this photo was taken standing on Oregon Highway 34, one of two major routes between Corvallis and the Coast. The ODF regional office is about three miles east of this clearcut, so it’s clear there isn’t any substantial enforcement of the law. The photo on the bottom shows a clearcut permitted directly above Interstate 5 in Douglas County about four years ago -- not far from the clearcut that caused a landslide in 1996 that killed four people. I hope if this cut slides onto the road in a few years that no one is injured by this intentional negligence.
one of the other compromises that the Democratic Party's environmental groups have made is to focus solely on public lands while ignoring the larger scale deforestation on private corporate timberlands ALL of the herbiciding and most of the logging in Cascadia is on private land, and nearly all of the environmental efforts (such as they are) are focused on public lands. Most of the forest biofuel threat is going to be from private land.
The only groups I know of in the Willamette Valley that highlight corporate land deforestation in detail are the Coast Range Association -- www.coastrange.org -- and Gary Kutcher's failed initiative efforts. Forestland Dwellers also highlights the toxic spraying on "private" land. NONE of the statewide "environmental" groups publicly chastise Kulongoski for refusing even the most basic enforcement of the pathetically weak Oregon Forest Practices Act, or objected loudly to the "renewable energy" standard allowing clearcutting to be considered green power. The Earth doesn't care about the public / private difference. Yes, the big trees are mostly on public land and the "law" is stronger on public land, but there's still more logging on "private" land. |
