Jim PaulFormer DirectorDept of State Lands

Elliott State Forest

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Dmitri PalmateerChief of StaffOregon State Treasurer

Peter HarkemaDirectorOregon Consensus

Land Board’s Direction

• Keep the forest in public ownership and ensure public access and recreation opportunities

• Decouple the forest from the Common School Fund by compensating the fund for the value of the forest and releasing it from its obligation to generate revenue for schools.

• Complete a Habitat Conservation Plan to ensure at-risk species protection and the ability to actively manage the forest to be financially self-supporting.

• Manage the forest to provide multiple public benefits including research, recreation, species conservation, active forest management, education, and tribal partnerships

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Geoff HuntingtonElliott Project ManagerDept. of State Lands

North American Research Forests

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Research Design – “Blocked” Conservation Research Watersheds

• Over 34,000 acre reserve(shown in dark green)

• Manage for ”old forest” conditions

• No harvests. Limited thinningof young plantations forconservation purposes

• Grow an older more complexforest over time

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August 25 Watershed Assignments

Conservation Research

Watershed (CRW)

Creation of a New Reserve Network

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The Elliott’s ~34,000 acre

Conservation Research

Watershed and the recently

established Devil’s Staircase

Wilderness Area are nearly

adjacent and together, would

create a ~66,000 acre

reserve. The largest in the

Oregon Coast Range.

Left: Size of the four largest

wilderness areas in the Oregon

Coast as compared to the

Conservation Research Watershed.

Allocation of Treatments

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Land Allocation

Extensive (Sharing)

Triad-E

Triad-I

Intensive (Sparing)

Unassigned

Multi. Obj. All

Cons. Emph. All

Elliott Total

Northern Spotted Owl Protected StandsMultiple Objective Watersheds Only

DRAFT8/22/2019

Land AllocationTotal Acres

MMMA

MMMA Percent

Extensive (Sharing) 8,966 516 6%

Triad-E 11,502 2,756 24%

Triad-I 11,679 3,818 33%

Intensive (Sparing) 10,506 1,986 19%

Unassigned 9,348 2,013 22%

Multi. Obj. All 52,001 11,089 21%

Cons. Emph. All 30,481 4,619 15%

Elliott Total 82,482 15,708 19%

Marbled Murrelet Management Areas

DRAFT8/22/2019

Elliott State Research Forest

83,000 Acres Challenges Ahead

• Habitat Conservation Plan

• Forest Management Plan

• Recreation Planning

• Decoupling from CSF

• Legislation

• Restarting Forest Operations

• Social License to Manage