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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Private Forests News list members –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Peter Daugherty, deputy chief of the Oregon Department of
Forestry’s Private Forests Division, provided this update on transitions
within the Private Forests Division on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Kevin Weeks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>ODF Agency Affairs Office<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>(503) 945-7427<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> DAUGHERTY Peter <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 18, 2010 <br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Statewide Stewardship
Conference</span><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Salem will be hosting a Statewide Stewardship Forester
Conference near Salem in the second week of April (6, 7, and 8<sup>th</sup>). Please
mark your calendars for this meeting. We will be drafting an agenda and
sending out meeting location and logistics shortly.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Salem Staff Changes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Lanny Quackenbush has left ODF to join Department of State
Lands as their Eastern Region Manager working out of the Bend office. While I
would like to blame years of hearing “what’s good for Eastern
Oregon is good for the state” at EOA stewardship conferences for the
move, the fact is that DSL offered Lanny a permanent position, something the
Program did not. Lanny had a great deal of expertise that will be sorely missed
and his departure has left the Program with a number of holes to fill. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lorene Judge has joined the Private Forests Program and the
ODF Partnership Development Program as the Budget and Fiscal Manager. Lorene
comes to the Program with a wealth of budget and fiscal management skills, and
will provide leadership and management of the budgets for both programs. She
will serve as liaison to Private Forests Program for grant planning, application,
and implementation of selected grants administered by the Partnership
Development Program. Lorene will also manage planning and budgeting activities
of the Private Forests Program; supervise the Forest Health Management unit,
and carry out special projects to achieve Program and Department goals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We have also just learned that Susan Shaw (Salem Compliance
Audit Specialist) will be leaving the agency to join Weyerhaeuser at their
Albany office. We will miss Susan, but we are happy for her to be
practicing again in the geotechnical field. Fortunately, she will not be
going far and we are sure to continue to benefit from her expertise as a
partner and stakeholder. Her last day will be February 26 – stay
tuned for an invitation for a goodbye lunch.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Workload Adjustments,
Shifted Duties, and New Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u>Forests Health Management<b><o:p></o:p></b></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>As mentioned above, Lorene Judge will manage the Forests
Health Management (Insect and Disease) unit. While she has the necessary
management experience, she has quite a learning curve on the technical side of
the (e.g., SOD is not something you put in your front yard). To facilitate the
transition, I have asked Rob Flowers to take the lead on policy and technical
issues for the I & D unit. One task he is working on already is coordinating
current and future bark beetle grant work. He has been contacting stewardship
foresters to discuss the status of current grants and need for future
cost-share work.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the Sudden Oak Death (SOD) front, the Program is creating
a SOD field unit in Brookings, which will report to Jim Young at the Coos
District office. The department received $2.7 million in ARRA funds for SOD
eradication and host removal. The SOD program has grown sufficiently to warrant
a limited duration Forest Manager 1 position to direct the fieldwork. We will
be recruiting for this position as soon as possible. We expect to add
additional limited duration positions to do field verification of infections,
eradication and host-removal treatment layouts, contract administration, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u>Enforcement and Civil Penalties<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Marganne Allen will take on Lanny’s role as Civil
Penalty Administrator and has the authority to approve consent orders, but will
work with Districts to support solutions developed in District Reviews.
We will continue to follow the interim process outlined in prior Transition
updates, but the Program will focus on eliminating all but necessary steps in
the civil penalties process. We still have the short-term objective of moving
quickly and efficiently to process new and close out existing high-priority
cases. Marganne will make arrangements to provide Districts with a list
of cases and their status and from which priorities will be established.
The longer-term objective is to identify procedures and tools that would
streamline and improve the civil penalties process while maintaining the
objective of making positive changes in the resource protection behavior of the
person cited.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><u>Safe Harbor, Stewardship Agreements, and the Healthy
Forest Reserve Program<o:p></o:p></u></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Lanny was also leading the Program effort (with US Fish and
Wildlife) on developing a programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement (SHA) for Northern
Spotted Owls. When used in conjunction with a Stewardship Agreement, the
SHA can provide regulatory certainty for landowners. ODF and USFWS
collaborated with Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to link the SHA
with their Healthy Forest Reserve Program (HFRP), which provides payment to
landowners for spotted owl habitat. With the concurrence of Link
Smith and Dave Lorenz at ODF’s West Lane District in Veneta, Paul
Clements has agreed to step up to complete this work. In addition to finishing
the work on Stewardship Agreements and developing practices associated with the
HFRP, Paul will be drafting an agency directive and procedures on the use of
Stewardship Agreements. Paul will also use the work with NRCS to develop
concepts and procedures on how the department can work effectively with
NRCS. Paul will continue to work out of the West Lane office. Salem
will provide technical assistance as needed and the District will provide
supervision for this developmental opportunity.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>New Approaches<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>With the reduction of Salem technical staff, the Program
needs to rely on field expertise to complete some of its policy and procedures
work and to explore new ways of business. This approach has the added benefit
of better connecting Salem and the Field.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Peter
Daugherty<br>
Deputy Chief, Private Forests Division<br>
Oregon Department of Forestry<br>
2600 State Street<br>
Salem, OR 97310<br>
Office (503) 945-7482<br>
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