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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:14.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Oregon Department of Forestry – NEWS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Forestry Board to hold executive session February 19<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Released -- </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>February 13, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Contact: Dan Postrel <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Public Affairs Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> Oregon Department of Forestry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> (503) 945-7420<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=bodywellcontenttable1><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Oregon Board of Forestry will hold an executive session at 3 p.m. Feb. 19 to discuss pending litigation. The meeting will be a telephone conference call, originating from the Clatsop Room, in Building C at the Oregon Department of Forestry headquarters, 2600 State St., in Salem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=bodywellcontenttable1><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The meeting will be closed to the public, under provisions of Oregon law that provide for such sessions on specific, limited topics. [Oregon Revised Statute 192.660(h)] <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=bodywellcontenttable1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=bodywellcontenttable1><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>About the board: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>The Board of Forestry consists of seven citizens nominated by the governor and confirmed by the Oregon Senate. Board functions include appointing the state forester, providing broad oversight of the Department of Forestry, adopting rules governing timber harvest and other practices on state and private forestland, and promoting sustainable management of Oregon’s 30 million-acre forestland base.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=bodywellcontenttable1 align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>###<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>