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Forest Resources Planning Program
Program Mission:
To lead strategic planning, to provide credible and objective analyses for the Board of Forestry and the
Department of Forestry, and to actively promote policies that encourage sustainable forest management and
further the objectives, policies, and programs of the Forestry Program for Oregon and all
Oregon forestlands.
Vision:
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To be the preferred provider of quality information, policy, planning services, and visionary
ideas for forestry decision makers in Oregon
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To be the catalyst and facilitator for coordinated forest policies between department programs
and field personnel
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To be a champion for the goals of the
Forestry Program for Oregon
This is what we do:
- One of the goals of the Oregon Department of Forestry's Forest Resources Planning program is to assist the Board of Forestry
in revising the Forestry Program for Oregon
and emphasize sustainability as a Board of Forestry
goal. Towards this goal we undertake and assist in projects such as the
Forest Assessment Project which culminated
in the
2001 Symposium held in October at Oregon State University and the recently released
Forest, Farms,
and People: Land Use Change on Non-Federal Land in Western Oregon 1973-2000. Currently
we are undertaking a similar project covering Eastern Oregon, which will,
when completed, provide information on land use activities for all of
Oregon.
- We work in cooperation with other state and federal programs in promoting
Board of Forestry policies.
- Our program strives to provide quality information, policy and planning services as well as visionary ideas
for
forestry decision makers. This includes providing feedback and ideas to the Board of Forestry and direct interaction with
state legislators.
- We work closely with other Oregon Department of Forestry programs in creating
strategic goals and plans.
- With the adoption of sustainable forest manage as a goal by the Board of
Forestry, we are developing technical and policy tools to help Oregon
achieve this goal
- Additionally, we develop landscape-scale monitoring tools using the core indicators of
sustainability to aid in the implementation of sustainable forestry.
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