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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon
Department of Forestry<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NEWS
RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Grant
County landowner named to Forestry advisory committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>March 8, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact:
Kevin Weeks (503) 945-7427<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>A forest
researcher based near the Grant County community of Long Creek has been named to
the Committee for Family Forestlands, an advisory group that provides
information about the concerns and interests of small-acreage and family forest
owners to the Oregon Board of Forestry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Roje
Gootee co-owns and manages Rush Creek Ranch, 2443 acres of forest and rangeland
in the foothills of eastern Oregon’s Blue Mountains. Purchased in
depleted condition in 1997, the property is responding to ongoing forest,
range, and riparian restoration efforts, and in 2004, earned American Tree Farm
System (ATFS) certification for forest management standards. Dr. Gootee works
as an independent consultant specializing in natural resource stewardship and
policy.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Membership of
the 10-person 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. Dr. Gootee’s appointment to the
Committee was approved by the Oregon Board of Forestry at the Board’s
March 3<sup>rd</sup> meeting in Salem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Gootee
holds a baccalaureate degree in Forest Management from Utah State University
and a PhD in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences from Washington State
University. Her research focuses on the social and legal interface between
private forests and environmental regulatory policy. Dr. Gootee’s
research results have been presented in a variety of professional and academic
settings including Yale University and international conferences in Ireland and
France. She is committed to improving public understanding of environmental
issues and working toward socially and ecologically sustainable policy
solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Gootee
assumes a Committee seat representing forest landowners in eastern Oregon,
replacing Klamath County resident Ned Livingston at the conclusion of
Livingston’s term on July 1, 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Small-acreage
private woodland owners and forest-owning families manage 4.7 million acres of
Oregon’s forests, about 15 percent of the state’s forest footprint.
More than half of Oregon’s family forest owners are over 65, with many in
their 70’s and 80’s. Many thousands of acres of Oregon’s
forest land are poised to change ownership within the next decade, with
economic pressures driving both new and long-time forest owners to consider
converting their forest to other uses, including residential development or
commercial land.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Additional
information about forest management is available on the Oregon Department of
Forestry website, <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/ODF">www.oregon.gov/ODF</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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