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Town hall session takes up BLM forest plan.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Town hall session takes up BLM forest plan.(Environment)(Officials discuss the pros and cons of increased logging on public land)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard

Taxing the federal government for the land it owns in Lane County, cutting more trees on public lands to help prop up county budgets, paying counties for carbon credits when they don't cut trees on public lands - these were just a few of the ideas that surfaced at a town hall meeting in Eugene on Thursday.

The topic: a proposed increase in logging on Bureau of Land Management forests that may help fill fiscal gaps for Western Oregon counties.

The 90-minute session featured speakers such as Lane County Commissioner Peter Sorenson, Jackson County Commissioner Dennis C.W. Smith, Cascadia Wildlands Project Executive Director Jay Lininger and Bureau of Land Management Eugene district Manager Ginnie Grilley. About 70 people attended.

Since the Northwest Forest Plan in 1994 drastically reduced the amount of logging on public lands,...

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