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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Oregon
Department of Forestry – NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Benton
County landowner named to Forestry advisory committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>May 5,
2010<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Contact:
Kevin Weeks (503) 945-7427<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Forest
landowner Sara Leiman has been named to a seat on 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. Leiman co-owns and serves as general manager of her family forestland
business, Coast Range Conifers LLC based in Monroe, managing 2,814 acres in
Benton, Lane and Lincoln counties.<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. Leiman’s appointment to the Committee
was approved by the Oregon Board of Forestry at the Board’s April 22nd
meeting in Salem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Leiman holds
a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and
has served on the Board of Directors for the Oregon Forest Resources Institute
since 2004. She has also served on many regional and local leadership boards.
Leiman was named Benton County Tree Farmer of the Year in 2005.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Leiman
assumes a Committee seat representing forest landowners in northwest Oregon,
replacing Gary Springer who was recently appointed to the Oregon Board of
Forestry. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Oregon
Board of Forestry at the April 22, 2010 meeting also named McMinnville resident
Susan Watkins as vice-chair of the Committee for Family Forestlands. Watkins
moved to Oregon following a thirty-year career in municipal law in California
and Washington. After Ms. Watkins and husband Arnie Hollander planted their
small forest in Yamhill County in 1994, she became a Master Woodland Manager
and is responsible for managing her family woodland. As a landowner
representative, Ms. Watkins helped found the Family Forest Project, the public-private
initiative that produces the Ties to the Land succession planning materials for
landowning families. She has served on the Committee since September 2008.<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.
A 2005 study by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute found 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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