Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Oregon District, Upper Willamette Field Office will hold a public meeting on the King Mosby Timber Management Project on Jan. 29, 2020. The meeting will be held at the City of Cottage Grove City Hall, 400 Main Street, Cottage Grove, Oregon, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The public meeting will be an open house format where attendees can provide public comments on the Environmental Assessment.
The project is located approximately eight miles southeast of Cottage Grove in Lane County. A 30-day public comment period previously ended on Jan. 19, 2019. Using the input received, the BLM has developed several project alternatives, including a no-action alternative and five action alternatives.
Commercial timber sales are an important tool used to accomplish BLM's forest management objectives in western Oregon. These objectives include production of a sustained-yield of timber, fish and wildlife habitat enhancement, dry forest restoration, wildfire hazard reduction, road maintenance and improvement, and protection of clean water. For every one million board feet of timber harvested on BLM lands in Western Oregon, 13 local jobs are created or maintained, and an estimated $647,000 of non-federal employment income is introduced into local economies. One million board feet is enough lumber to frame 63 family sized residential homes.
A copy of the planning document and related information is available at https://bit.ly/2LuCf1R.
Additional information about the western Oregon timber sale program is available online at: www.blm.gov/programs/natural-resources/forests-and-woodlands/oc-lands.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
