[ODF_Private_Forests] House Agriculture survey on climate change published

[WEEKS Kevin]

Private Forests News list members:

Policy information on climate change that may be of interest to private forest landowners --

On Thursday June 4th, Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.), chair of  the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, announced the publication of the Committee's climate change survey. The Committee received more than 200 responses to the questionnaire, which was sent to conservation, forestry, research, energy, business, and nonprofit groups and was also made available to the general public.

In March 2009, the Agriculture Committee created the climate change questionnaire and distributed it to over 400 organizations to gather input on proposals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For years, farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners have been participating in programs that result in carbon reduction, and the goal of the questionnaire was to identify ways that these practices could be recognized and incorporated into climate change legislation.

The survey results are available on the House Agriculture Committee website's Publications page: http://agriculture.house.gov/inside/publications.html.

Kevin Weeks
Public Information Officer / Private Forests Division
Oregon Department of Forestry
(503) 945-7427
kweeks at odf.state.or.us<mailto:kweeks at odf.state.or.us>

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