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Oregon’s Western Forest Management Plan (FMP) covers approximately 613,000 acres and represents a model for how the Oregon Department of Forestry approaches public forest management. These forests, including the Tillamook, Clatsop, and Santiam state forests, have the potential to be transformed to prioritize clean water, abundant fish and wildlife, and climate change response. Please take this survey to ensure these values are prioritized over outdated practices focused on logging and natural resources extraction. While this survey takes time to fill out, the Oregon Department of Forestry’s last survey only had 50 responses! Every single response helps influence the process! 

This Oregon Department of Forestry public survey covers Draft Strategies associated with each Goal under the Western Forest Management Plan. These strategies are intended to provide specific direction for the management of west-side state forests. The survey will first ask you to select the goals most important to you, then ask for your relative sense of satisfaction with the current strategy language tied to a given goal, and offer you a chance to input specific comments (and move on to other goals/strategies). Please look over the survey and provide feedback on the goals and strategies that are most important to you — you do not need to fill in feedback for every Goal and Strategy. Use your best judgment to rank each strategy as sufficient or insufficient; if you don’t have a strong opinion, you can select the “don’t know” option. You will be given a chance to write specific comments under each Goal — this comment text is the most important feedback.

Below is an outline of the goals we find most important and/or need the most work, with recommendations for what you could helpfully input into the comment box under each goal. Feel free to copy and paste (or adapt) this text for your own use in the comment boxes. I very much appreciate your time and effort on this survey — the results are critical for determining the ODF’s future direction in managing Oregon’s State Forests. Responses are due by Friday, January 7, 2022.

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Forest Resilience Goal 1: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Climate Change Goal 2: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box: 

Carbon Goal 3: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Wildfire Goal 4: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Restoration Goal 5: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Generally speaking, the Wildlife and Aquatics / Riparian Goals seem well crafted. There are, however, some areas where improvement is needed through revision.

Wildlife Goal 6: Maintain, protect, and enhance functional and resilient systems and landscapes that provide the variety and quality of habitat types and features necessary for the long-term persistence of native wildlife species.

Pollinators & Invertebrates Goal 7: Provide suitable habitats across the landscape that contribute to maintaining or enhancing native, sensitive, and endangered pollinator and other invertebrate populations. 

Aquatics & Riparian Goal 9: Protect, restore, and maintain dynamic, resilient, and functioning aquatic habitats, including high water quality and healthy stream flows, that support the life-history needs of aquatic and riparian-dependent fish and wildlife species. 

Drinking-Water Goal 10: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Soil Goal 12: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

Transportation System Goal 15: Bullets for input into Survey Comment box:

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