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<div><b>Oregon Dept. of Forestry issued this news release today.</b></div>
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<div><font size="2"><b>Forestry Board begins recruitment for a new Oregon state forester</b></font></div>
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<div><font size="2">For immediate release Major media distribution</font></div>
<div><font size="2">November 5, 2010 Contact: Rod Nichols, 503-945-7425 office, </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The Board of Forestry launched a plan Friday to recruit candidates for the position of Oregon state forester, with a goal of having a new state forester in place early next year. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The Board adopted the recruitment plan, which includes a nationwide search, at its regular business meeting in Brookings.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The new forester will succeed Marvin Brown, who served in the position from 2003 until his resignation last month. </font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Oregon’s state forester carries out the Board’s overarching policies through leadership of the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF). The state forester serves as director of the department, which provides services including preventing and
fighting wildfires, managing state-owned forests, enforcing natural resource protection laws on private forestlands, advising landowners, and providing urban forestry assistance.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2"> The agency has 647 employees and a two-year budget of $303 million.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The state forester also assists and represents the board and department in identifying and resolving policy issues and in working with interest groups, the state legislature, and others.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">"We’re committed to working with our many partners and stakeholders to find the best person available for this position,” board Chair John Blackwell, of Portland, said. “The state forester is a vital advocate for the protection and sustainable
management of Oregon’s forests.”</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">The recruitment process includes a survey to collect public input, as well as stakeholder and ODF employee forums with the finalists, and an opportunity for the incoming governor or his representative to meet with the finalists.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2">Nancy Hirsch, chief of ODF’s State Forests Division, has been designated to serve as acting state forester until the position is filled. </font></div>
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