[ODF_Private_Forests] District fire budgets on Forestry Board's June 8 agenda

[WEEKS Kevin]

Oregon Dept. of Forestry issued this news release today.

District fire protection budgets on Board of Forestry's June 8 agenda
May 31, 2011
For immediate release
Contact:      Rod Nichols
                     Oregon Department of Forestry
                     503-945-7425

The Oregon Board of Forestry will consider approval of yearly budgets for the state's 12 wildfire protection districts at its June 8 meeting in Salem.

The budgets, a combination of state funds and assessments paid by owners of forest and grazing lands, total about $40.7 million, a 4 percent increase from current levels. The new budgets are for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2011.

The department protects about 16 million forested acres, most of them privately owned, from fire.

The board meeting, scheduled to begin at 8 a.m., will be held by telephone conference call. Members of the public who would like to listen are welcome in the Tillamook Room of the Oregon Department of Forestry's Salem headquarters, at 2600 State St.

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