[ODF_Private_Forests] ODF - Committee for Family Forestlands to be a phone meeting

[WEEKS Kevin]

Oregon Department of Forestry
NEWS RELEASE

Thursday’s Committee for Family Forestlands to be a phone meeting

December 17, 2008
Contact: Kevin Weeks (503) 689-6879 

The Committee for Family Forestlands will conduct a conference call meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday December 18, 2008 based at the Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters in Salem, 2600 State Street.

Committee members will hear reports from ODF staff, review a presentation from the Oregon Forests Resource Institute about Oregon’s family forestlands, discuss the 2009-2011 proposed budget reduction plan for the Oregon Department of Forestry, and discuss Committee responses or policy implications for Oregon’s family forests resulting from proposed ODF service reductions.

The membership of the Committee includes family forest landowners, forest industry representatives, environmental community and public members, and staff representing the Oregon Department of Forestry, Oregon State University and the Oregon Forest Resources Institute. The 10-member Committee for Family Forestlands serves an advisory role to the Oregon Board of Forestry regarding issues of concern to Oregon’s family-owned forests.

The public is invited to participate in the advisory committee meeting. In the interest of public safety during the winter storm, public members wishing to join the meeting should listen in to the conference call. For information on joining the conference call, please call (503) 689-6879.

Small-acreage private woodland owners and forest-owning families actively manage 4.7 million acres of Oregon’s forests, about 15 percent of the state’s forest footprint. Additional information about the Committee for Family Forestlands is also available on the Oregon Department of Forestry’s web site at: http://www.oregon.gov/ODF/BOARD/CFF/cff.shtml

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Kevin Weeks
Public Information Officer
ODF Agency Affairs Office / Private Forests Division