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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Oregon Dept. of Forestry issued this news release today.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:13.0pt'>Forestry Board to meet June 6 in Salem</span></b><span style='font-size:13.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>For immediate release Major media distribution<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>May 24<b><span style='color:#0033CC'>,</span></b> 2012 Contact:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><i> </i> Rod Nichols, 503-945-7425, <a href="mailto:rnichols@odf.state.or.us">rnichols@odf.state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Dan Postrel, 503-945-7420, <a href="mailto:dpostrel@odf.state.or.us">dpostrel@odf.state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Budgets for local wildfire protection will top the agenda when the Oregon Board of Forestry meets on June 6 in Salem. Agenda highlights include: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Forest protection district budgets </b>– Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) staff will present proposed budgets for the fiscal year beginning July 1 for the board to consider for approval. Local forest protection associations develop the budgets in collaboration with the ODF district offices. The budgets fund basic wildfire prevention and suppression services provided by the districts on the 16 million acres of private and public forestlands protected by the department. Landowners and the state share these protection costs.<span style='color:#0033CC'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Final orders on Forest Patrol Assessment appeals</span></b><span style='color:black'> – The board will announce final </span>orders for several landowners who requested a board hearing over the addition of their<span style='color:black'> lands to the Forest Patrol Assessment rolls. Landowners who own forestland within Oregon’s forest protection districts pay an assessment that helps fund wildfire protection on their lands. Land uses may change over time, and county classification committees examine the properties within their boundaries periodically to keep pace with those changes. As a result of these reclassification efforts, some lands may be removed from the assessment rolls while others are added. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><span style='color:black'>Institute for Natural Resources review follow-up<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>ODF staff will discuss the results of meetings held this winter with the Institute for Natural Resources Science Advisory Team and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to discuss and clarify points made in the team’s January 2011 scientific review requested by the Board of Forestry. The review examined the analysis considered for evaluating state forest management plan alternatives. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b>2013-15 ODF budget development<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>The board will receive an update on the planning and development of the next department biennial budget. The final-draft request budget will be presented to the board for consideration and approval at its July 27 meeting. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b>Public comment<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'>The meeting is open to the public. During a general comment period at about 8:30 a.m., public comment<span style='color:black'> will be received on forestry-related items that are not included in the agenda. Time will also be provided for comment on specific agenda items as the board takes them up. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><b>Meeting time and location<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>The board meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Tillamook Room – Building C, at the Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters office, 2600 State St., in Salem.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>More information<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>More information on the Board of Forestry can be found at: <a href="http://www.oregonforestry.gov">www.oregonforestry.gov</a>. Background information on the June 6 meeting, including staff reports, is available through the 2012 “Meeting Schedules” link on the website.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Special needs<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Accommodations for people with disabilities, and special materials, services or assistance can be arranged by calling the department’s Public Affairs Office at least 48 hours before the meeting, 503-945-7200, text telephone 503-945-7213. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>###<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p></div></body></html>