Northwest Oregon: Shotcash Timber Sale Project public meeting
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Salem, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Oregon District, Upper Willamette Field Office will hold a public meeting on the Shotcash Timber Sale Project on May 9, 2019. It will be conducted at the Mohawk Valley Community Grange, located at 93727 Marcola Road in Marcola, OR, from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m.
The project is located approximately five miles north of Marcola, Oregon. It will promote job creation and support the local economy, generating approximately 59 million board feet.
In fiscal year 2017, BLM’s timber harvest produced over $560 million in total economic output in Oregon (direct, indirect, and induced economic effects), which is approximately $2.5 million per one million board feet harvested. One million board feet is enough lumber to frame 63 family sized residential homes. The BLM estimates that approximately 13 local jobs are created or maintained, and $647,000 of non-federal employment income is introduced into the local economy per million board feet of timber harvested.
The Shotcash Timber Sale Project is designed to achieve land management objectives set forth in the Northwestern and Coastal Oregon Resource Management Plan, signed into effect on August 5, 2016. In developing this plan over the course of four years, the BLM held 41 public meetings and numerous other stakeholder meetings, and considered over 7,000 public comments. The approach to forest management adopted in the management plan is commonly referred to as Ecological Forestry. In it, timber harvest practices are designed to emulate natural disturbances, create complex habitats providing benefits for native species, and support natural ecological processes.
The Shotcash Timber Sale Project Environmental Assessment evaluates a no-action alternative and three harvest alternatives. One of the harvest alternatives includes a combination of regeneration harvest (approximately 1,080 acres) and thinning harvest (approximately 145 acres), another alternative would implement only regeneration harvest (approximately 1,230 acres), and the third alternative would implement a combination of regeneration (approximately 750 acres) and thinning harvest (approximately 135 acres) under the scenario of no new road construction.
The meeting will be an open house where attendees can view maps, ask questions of the project team, and provide comments on the project alternatives. The public scoping meeting for this project was held on May 31, 2018.
Comments can be sent from May 20 through June 19 to blm_or_shotcash@blm.gov with Shotcash Environmental Assessment in the subject line. For additional information about submitting comments, please consult the full scoping document and project vicinity map: https://eplanning.blm.gov/eplanning-ui/project/106490/510
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment – including your personal identifying information – may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
The BLM manages more than 245 million acres of public land located primarily in 12 western states, including Alaska, on behalf of the American people. The BLM also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of America’s public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.