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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=MsoTitle><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Smoke management committee meets Dec. 4 in Salem<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Nov. 29<b><span style='color:#0033CC'>,</span></b> 2012 Major media distribution<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Contact:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:ideograph-numeric'><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></i><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Rod Nichols, 503-945-7425, <a href="mailto:rnichols@odf.state.or.us">rnichols@odf.state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The Smoke Management Review Committee will receive subcommittee reports on a smoke monitoring data system, and tracking of alternatives to prescribed forest burning when it meets on Dec. 4 in Salem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Other agenda items include:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='margin-left:37.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Managing burning on poor/marginal days<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='margin-left:37.5pt;text-align:left;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>§<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Proposed smoke management budget/field coordinator position<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Committee includes representatives of the public, federal agencies, the forest industry, air quality regulators and small woodland owners. The members are knowledgeable about smoke management issues and Oregon’s Smoke Management Plan. The Oregon departments of Environmental Quality and Forestry provide staff support to the committee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Oregon’s smoke management program has two goals: remove excess forest fuels and prevent wildfire smoke emissions.<b><span style='color:#0033CC'> </span></b>After timber harvest, forest landowners may reduce the risk of wildfire through controlled or “prescribed” burning of unmarketable tree residue commonly known as slash. This removes potential fuel for a wildfire. It also prepares the logged site for replanting by releasing nutrients and removing vegetation that would otherwise compete with the young trees. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Burning in the fall shortly after wildfire danger subsides reduces smoke emissions and enables more complete removal of slash.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Department of Forestry meteorologists monitor weather conditions throughout spring and fall as they coordinate hundreds of burning requests from private and public forest landowners. This oversight helps minimize smoke intrusions into communities. Management of forest fuels through prescribed burning greatly reduces the risk of large wildfires that can pump thousands of tons of carbon into the atmosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The meeting is open to the public, and public comment will be taken at 10:40 a.m. and 1:50 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>For more information on Oregon’s Smoke Management Plan, go to the Department of Forestry’s website, <a href="http://www.oregon.gov/odf/Pages/fire/fire.aspx#Smoke_Management_Information">www.oregon.gov/odf/Pages/fire/fire.aspx#Smoke_Management_Information</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>###<o:p></o:p></span></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>