Oregon Department of Forestry Oregon Board of Forestry Meeting, June 4, 2008

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Oregon Board of Forestry Meeting, June 4, 2008

Approved Minutes and Attachments

The following minutes and attachments for the Board's June 4, 2008 meeting were approved by the Board at their meeting on July 24, 2008.

Minutes [PDF; 18 pages; 1,033 KB]
Attachments:

Letter from the Eastern Oregon Forest Protection Association and the State Forester's response, re: Agenda Item F [PDF; 8 pages; 445 KB]
Juntura, Silver Creek, and Twickenham Rangeland Fire Protection Associations Budgets, re: Agenda Item G [PDF; 3 pages; 29 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 2 [PDF; 2 pages; 56 KB]
Wildfire Reduction Act of 2009 Policy Package, re: Agenda Item 3 [PDF; 8 pages; 1,930 KB]
Enhanced and Integrated Private Forests Program Policy Package, re: Agenda Item 3 [PDF; 10 pages; 725 KB]
Federal Forest Coordination Policy Package, re: Agenda Item 3 [PDF; 3 pages; 347 KB]
2009-11 Biennial Budget Reduction Summary, re: Agenda Item 3 [PDF; 3 pages; 213 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 4 pages; 201 KB]
Public Comment - John Warness, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 3 pages; 164 KB]
Public Comment - Lyle Defrees, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 1 page; 44 KB]
Public Comment - Phil Adams, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 2 pages; 138 KB]
Public Comment - Jim Carr, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 1 page; 58 KB]
Public Comment - John Rounds, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 1 page; 44 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 7 [PDF: 1 page; 171 KB]
Summary of Individual Board Member Evaluations, re: Agenda Item 9 [PDF; 7 pages; 444 KB]

Audio Meeting Files [MP3]

Consent Agenda [4,435 KB; 0:09:27 minutes]
Item 1 [8,923 KB; 0:19:02 minutes]
Item 1A [3,654 KB; 0:07:47 minutes]
Item 2 [5,518 KB; 0:11:45 minutes]
Item 3 [39,483 KB; 1:24:13 hours/minutes]
Item 4 [59,200 KB; 2:06:17 hours/minutes]
Item 5 [24,066 KB; 0:51:20 minutes]
Item 6 [8,278 KB; 0:17:39 minutes]
Item 7 [11,295 KB; 0:24:05 minutes]
Item 8 [2,673 KB; 0:05:42 minutes]
Item 9 [39,725 KB; 1:24:44 hours/minutes]
Item 10 [16,316 KB; 0:34:48 minutes

Pre-Meeting Staff Reports and Other Materials

Meeting Agenda [PDF; 2 pages; 150 KB]

Consent Agenda

Item A. Minutes and Attachments - April 29 and 30, 2008 Meeting and Workshop

Minutes [PDF; 12 pages; 691 KB]
Attachments:

Public Comment - Lisa Arkin, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 3 pages; 181 KB]
Public Comment - John Sundquist, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 3 pages; 184 KB]
Public Comment - David Eisler, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 1 page; 65 KB]
Public Comment - Reida Kimmel, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 1 page; 72 KB]
Public Comment - Robin Winfree, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 1 page; 64 KB]
Public Comment - Neal Miller, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 1 page; 47 KB]
Public Comment - Amy Pincus Merwin, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 3 pages; 270 KB]
Handout - Wayne Giesy, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 7 pages; 971 KB]
Hand-out - Chuck Willer, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 1 page; 468 KB]
Hand-out - Chuck Willer, re: Agenda Item 1A [PDF; 2 pages; 281 KB]
Staff Hand-out, re: Agenda Item 2 [PDF; 4 pages; 1,142 KB]
Staff Hand-out, re: Agenda Item 3 [PDF; 6 pages; 1,762 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 3 pages; 651 KB]
Public Comment - Steven C. Buttrick, re: Agenda Item 4 [PDF; 2 pages; 286 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 5 [PDF; 10 pages; 2,168 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 6 [PDF; 6 pages; 220 KB]
Staff Presentation, re: Agenda Item 7 [PDF; 6 pages; 1,069 KB]
Public Comment - Francis Eatherington, re: Agenda Item 7 [PDF; 4 pages; 238 KB]
Presentation - Group Decision-Making Options and Tools, re: Workshop Session 1A [PDF; 11 pages; 1,277 KB]
Presentation - Field and Program Level Core Processes, re: Workshop Session 2A [PDF; 3 pages; 119 KB]
Presentation - Agency Leadership Level Core Processes, re: Workshop Session 2A [PDF; 9 pages; 411 KB]
Presentation - Board Level Core Processes, re: Workshop Session 2B [PDF; 7 pages; 3,612 KB]
Presentation - Board of Forestry Strategic Planning, re: Workshop Session 2B [PDF; 7 pages; 288 KB]
Staff Hand-out - Issue Scan Overview, re: Workshop Session 3 [PDF; 8 pages; 489 KB]
Staff Hand-out - Work Plan System Approach Discussion, re: Workshop Session 3 [PDF; 1 page; 53 KB]

Item B. State Forests Management - Issue 2,
Objective 1 - Adapting the Forest Management Plans,
Program Response to Recreation Assessment

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 133 KB]
Attachment 1: Summary of External Feedback on the Draft Action Plan for Addressing Findings and Recommendations in the Recreation Management Assessment (David Reed and Associates Report, May 2007) [PDF; 2 pages; 106 KB]

Item C. State Forests Management - Issue 2,
Objective 1 - Adapting the Forest Management Plans,
Issues List

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 82 KB]
Attachment 1: Board of Forestry Issues List: Development of Management Strategies for the Clatsop and Tillamook State Forests to Achieve the Performance Measure Targets [PDF; 6 pages; 457 KB]

Item D. Forest Regulation - Issue 6,
Regional Forest Practices Committee Appointments and Reappointments

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 67 KB]
Attachment 1: Northwest, Southwest and Eastern Regional Forest Practices Committees' Current Membership Lists: [PDF; 1 page; 30 KB]
Attachment 2: Biographical Sketches of Nominees [PDF; 1 page; 51 KB]

Item E. Forest Vitality - Issue 3,
Objective 5 - Forest Carbon Offset Markets,
WESTCARB Phase 1 Reports

Staff Report [PDF; 5 pages; 329 KB]
Attachment 1: Executive Summary - Wimrock International. 2007. Baseline Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals for Forest and Agricultural Lands in Oregon. Report #CEC-500-2007-025. Sacramento, California: California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research [PDF; 11 pages; 499 KB]
Attachment 2: Executive Summary - Winrock International. 2007. Carbon Sequestration through Changes in Land Use in Oregon: Costs and Opportunities. Report #CEC-500-2007-074. Sacramento, California: California Energy Commission Public Interest Energy Research [PDF; 11 pages; 541 KB]

Item F. Wildfire Risk Management - Issue 7,
Non-Operating Forest Protective Associations - Annual Letters to the State Forester and Responses

Staff Report [PDF; 1 page; 46 KB]
Attachment 1: Letters from the Forest Protective Associations and responses from the State Forester [34 pages; 1,756 KB]**

**Note: Pages 28 and 29 of Attachment 1 - Brown's response to Eastern Oregon Forest Protective Association and the Eastern Oregon Forest Protective Association annual letter - and Pages 33 and 34 - Brown's response to Oregon Forest Industries Council and Oregon Forest Industries Council annual letter - were not availalbe at the time of web posting; they will be provided at the Board meeting

Item G. Wildfire Risk Management - Issue 7,
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations - Annual Budget Approval

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 84 KB]
Attachment 1: 2008-2009 budget of the Burnt River Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 12 KB]
Attachment 2: 2008-2009 budget of the Crane Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 11 KB]
Attachment 3: 2008-2009 budget of the Fields-Andrews Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 15 KB]
Attachment 4: 2008-2009 budget of the Ironside Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 18 KB]
Attachment 5: 2008-2009 budget of the Post Paulina Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 14 KB]
Attachment 6: 2008-2009 budget of the Brothers Hampton Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 13 KB]
Attachment 7: 2008-2009 budget of the Silver Creek Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 8 KB]**
Attachment 8: 2008-2009 budget of the Twickenham Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 8 KB]**
Attachment 9: 2008-2009 budget of the Juntura Rangeland Fire Protection Association [PDF; 1 page; 8 KB]**

**Note: These budgets were not available at the time of web posting; they will be provided at the Board meeting

Item H. Forestry Program for Oregon Implementation - Issue 1,
Objective 4 - Adaptive Management,
Approval of the Charter for the Quality Assurance Program

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 99 KB]
Attachment 1: Oregon Department of Forestry Quality Assurance Program and Audit Committee Draft Charter [PDF; 10 pages; 670 KB]

Item I. Forest Regulation - Issue 6,
Objective 3 - Effective and Efficient Implementation of the Forest Practices Act,
Adopt Temporary OARs Amending OAR 629-623-0400 and delete OAR 629-623-0500 - Intermediate Down Slope Public Safety Risk Sites

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 113 KB]
Attachment 1: Proposed Temporary Rule Language [PDF; 2 pages; 95 KB]

Action and Information

Item 1 and 1A. State Forester and Board Member Comments and Public Comments on Non-Agenda Topics [PDF; 2 pages; 47 KB]

Item 2. Forest Vitality - Issue 3,
Objective 5 - Forest Carbon-Offset Markets,
Forest Resource Trust Program - Proposed OAR Amendments

Staff Report [PDF; 4 pages; 221 KB]
Attachment 1: Forest Resource Trust Final Draft Rule Amendments - Showing Mark-up (OAR Chapter 629, Division 22) [PDF; 21 pages; 1322 KB]
Attachment 2: Forest Resource Trust Final Draft Rule Amendments - Clean Copy (OAR Chapter 629, Division 22) [PDF; 17 pages; 956 KB]

Item 3. Forestry Program for Oregon Implementation - Issue 1,
Objective 1 - Sustainable Forest Management,
2009-11 Biennial Budget Development - Policy Packages and Reductions

Staff Report [PDF; 1 page; 62 KB]
Attachment 1: 2009-11 Biennial Budget Policy Packages - Summaries of Key Packages**
Attachment 2: 2009-11 Budget Reduction Summary**

**Note: These attachments were not available at the time of web posting; they will be provided at the Board Meeting

Item 4. Wildfire Risk Management - Issue 7,
2008-09 FY District Budgets and Estimated Rates

Staff Report [PDF; 4 pages; 230 KB]
Attachment 1: FY 09 Budget Summary by District and Area [PDF; 1 page; 205 KB]
Attachment 2: April 3, 2008, Klamath Forest Protective Association Letter, re: Rising cost of fire protection [PDF; 2 pages; 109 KB]
Attachment 3: April 20, 2008, State Forester response letter to Klamath Forest Protective Association [PDF; 5 pages; 412 KB]
Attachment 4: April 14, 2008, Walker Range Forest Protective Association, re: Rising cost of fire protection [PDF; 2 pages; 97 KB]
Attachment 5: April 22, 2008, State Forester response letter to Walker Range Forest Protective Association [PDF; 5 pages; 409 KB]
Attachment 6: April 24, 2008, Northeast Oregon Budget Committee, re: Response concerning Northeast Oregon District Fire Protection Budget Committee meeting [PDF; 2 pages; 121 KB]
Attachment 7: April 21, 2008, Central Oregon District Budget Committee, re: Rising cost of fire protection [PDF; 2 pages; 61 KB]

Item 5. Mary Rellergert Forestry Education Award Presentation

Staff Report [PDF; 1 page; 37 KB]

Item 6. Emergency Fire Cost Committee Report

Staff Report [PDF; 1 page; 57 KB]
Attachment 1: Emergency Fire Cost Committee Report to the Oregon Board of Forestry [PDF; 3 pages; 185 KB]

Item 7. Wildfire Risk Management - Issue 7,
Oregon Forestland Classification Review - Final Report

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 185 KB]
Attachment 1: 2007 Oregon Forestland Classification Review: Final Report - Executive Summary [PDF; 17 pages; 1,650 KB]

Item 8. Final Order - John Ford

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 87 KB]
Attachment 1: Amended Proposed Order in the Matter of John and Marian Ford [PDF; 13 pages; 658 KB]

Item 9. Forestry Program for Oregon Implementation - Issue 1,
Objective 4 - Adaptive Management,
2008 Board Governance Performance Evaluation

Staff Report [PDF; 1 page; 59 KB]
Attachment 1: Summary of 2008 Individual Board Member Self-Evaluation Responses**

**Note: This attachment was not available at the time of web posting; it will be provided under separate cover prior to the Board meeting

Item 10. Forest Regulation - Issue 6,
Work Plan Revision

Staff Report [PDF; 2 pages; 114 KB]
Attachment 1: Forest Regulation Work Plan - Issue 7 (Current) [PDF: 19 pages; 1,179 KB]

Page updated: August 13, 2008

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