Salem, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Oregon District, Upper Willamette Field Office will hold a public meeting on the Marcola Sunrise Timber Management Project on Jan. 23, 2020.
The BLM proposes to implement forest management actions including timber sales on approximately 3,700 acres of BLM administered lands located approximately eight miles northeast of Springfield, Oregon. Project actions are expected to include regeneration harvest and commercial thinning.
The meeting will be held at the Mohawk Valley Grange, located at 93727 Marcola Road in Marcola, Oregon, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The public meeting will be an open house format where attendees can view project maps, as well as ask questions of the project team, and provide comments on the project.
Public comments are being accepted during the scoping period from January 7 through February 5, 2020 at:
Mail:
Northwest Oregon BLM, Upper Willamette Field Office Attn: Nicholas Mitrovich
3106 Pierce Parkway, Suite E Springfield, OR 97477
Fax:
(541) 683-6981
Email:
blm_or_no_marcola_sunrise_ea@blm.gov
Please include Marcola Sunrise EA in the subject line.
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.
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
