[ODF_Private_Forests] OFRI Forest Facts & Figures booklet revised for 2013

[WEEKS Kevin]

OREGON FOREST RESOURCES INSTITUTE
News Release

February 12, 2013
For immediate release
Contact: Dave Kvamme - 971-673-2948

Forest Facts & Figures booklet freshly revised

PORTLAND, Ore. - The just-published third edition of Oregon Forest Facts and Figures packs an abundance of forest information into a pocket-size package. The booklet, published every two years by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute, has been fully updated and revised for 2013, and was released in early February.

"Those who regularly require factual information about Oregon's forests will find this book to be a handy, compact resource," said Mike Cloughesy, OFRI's director of forestry.

The 32-page booklet covers forest ownership and timber harvest, wood products manufacturing, the increasing fire risk in Oregon's dry forests and much more. It also includes new economic and employment data from OFRI's 2012 Forest Report<http://theforestreport.org/>, a comprehensive study of the forest sector economy in Oregon. Other data was gleaned from state and federal governments and other authoritative sources. Three pages of endnotes provide citations for all the information.

Not all the data has changed since the last edition. Oregon still has more than 30 million acres of forestland, for instance, covering nearly half the state. But the book updates the substantial improvements that Oregon's unique system of local watershed councils continues to make to watershed riparian zones and stream crossings. It also outlines the worsening fire risk on east-side federal forestland, and, at the same time, explains the accomplishments of government, conservation groups and local civic leaders in finding solutions.

"I'm dedicating this booklet to the 76,000 people who work in Oregon's forest sector," said Cloughesy who coordinated the revision. "They are the ones who will be on the front lines of restoring these forests. And at the same time, they will help heal many of our rural communities whose unemployment and poverty far outstrip that found in urban Oregon."

Download a PDF of the booklet or order a printed copy at http://oregonforests.org/content/ofri-resources. This spring, OFRI plans to release a mobile-app version of Oregon Forest Facts & Figures.

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