USFS announces local listening session on forest planning
Release Date: Apr 14, 2015
The U.S. Forest Service is hosting listening sessions on forest planning in local communities across Oregon and Washington. The Siuslaw National Forest and Pacific Northwest Research Station will host an open, public listening session on April 27 from 6-8 p.m. at the LaSells Stewart Center on the Oregon State University campus (875 SW 26th St., Corvallis, OR), so the community can share ideas for how to approach forest planning across this broad region.
After sessions in Seattle, Portland, and Redding, CA, the Forest Service heard a strong desire to engage local communities across the Northwest, and the Corvallis session is one of at least a dozen additional sessions planned over the next few weeks.
After an introduction from Forest Service staff, participants will break into small groups to address the following questions:
- What would you like the Forest Service to consider in revising forest plans in the Northwest?
- How should the Forest Service incorporate and apply science in plan revision?
- How should the public be engaged in the process?
“Forest plans provide the long-term direction guiding management of each national forest, and involve issues at both the local and regional scale,” said Siuslaw National Forest Supervisor Jerry Ingersoll. “This is an opportunity for people who care about their national forests to share ideas about the planning process before we even begin forest plan revision here. Feedback from the public is a critical piece of designing a regional approach to planning.”
Additional details will be posted on the Forest Service Region 6 website as they become available: www.fs.usda.gov/detail/r6/landmanagement/planning/?cid=stelprd3831710.