Flood of Information event

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Sandy River area residents, property owners invited to the Sept. 14 Flood of Information event to help prepare for winter

A Flood of Information:  Preparing for Winter on the Sandy River, is the theme of a public workshop /open house hosted by Clackamas County, the Villages at Mt. Hood, the Sandy River Basin Watershed Council and the Hoodland Fire District on Saturday, September 14.  The event will be held from 9 - 11:30 a.m. at the Resort at the Mountain, 68010 E Fairway Ave., Welches.

People who attend this free event will have access to information and resources from local, regional and state agencies and organizations on a variety of topics, including:

• The importance of flood insurance and changes in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) rates;
• Upcoming new flood insurance rate maps for the Sandy River Basin;
• Updates on post-flood repairs and mitigation projects;
• Emergency preparedness;
• Toxics reduction/energy efficiency, and
• Winter road maintenance.

Representatives from Clackamas County Planning and Zoning, and Emergency Management will share updated information and maps about the Sandy River's channel migration.  Water Environment Services staff will be there to show what the WES Outfall Project will look like, and discuss its timing and impact.  A FEMA flood insurance specialist will be available to answer questions on insurance policies and eligibility.

The public is welcome to stop by any time between 9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., talk with agency representatives, gather information and register for prize drawings. 

For more information, contact Jay Wilson, 503-723-4848 or jaywilson@clackamas.us.

COMMUNITY CRIME/ALERT

FYI

COMMUNITY CRIME/ALERT

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT:

·       Up Lolo pass, in the forest area, there is a band of drifters who have settled in. ·       There are, in estimate, 20-25 of these folks in multiple camp sites. ·       They sometimes move around, but in the deeper woods they have some semi-permanent spots. ·       Their leader is named Jeff. He is an old man with a limp and walking stick.   ·       Nothing is stolen by this band of thieves without Jeff knowing about it. He drives a grey Subaru wagon, very beat up. It is a community vehicle for the family, so he is not the only driver. ·       They do buy clothes from Goodwill in Gresham so that they can wear them in places to better fit in. ·       They do little theft at night and strike during the day.  ·       They have made claims that due to last year’s mild winter, they are going to try and stick around. ·       Their target this winter will be skiing and Snow Boarding gear. High dollar, easy to take, but the size makes them more vulnerable to being caught. ·       A few of them do take local jobs, they sell firewood, and they collect cans and bottles as well.

If you see suspicious activity call:

Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office at 503-655-8211 

Environmentalists press their case to limit logging on O&C forests in Oregon

Another good article on the issue of O & C lands.  This one is

 By Jeff Mapes, The Oregonian 

The article starts


Oregon environmental groups on Monday stepped up their campaign against legislation aimed at increasing timber harvests on western Oregon federal forests once owned by the now-defunct Oregon & California Railroad.
Portland-based Oregon Wild listed the O&C lands as No. 1 on its annual list of "10 Most Endangered Places" in the state.  Sean Stevens, the group's executive director, said it was a "no-brainer" to put the 2.8 million acres of forest lands at the top of the list given the threat posed in the legislation sponsored by Democratic Reps. Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader and Republican Greg Walden, all of Oregon.
That proposal would put about 1.6 million acres into a trust managed by a state board that is aimed at producing higher timber harvests.
Meanwhile, the Pacific Rivers Council released a nearly 10-minute video criticizing the O&C legislation, labeling it a threat to clean water used by some 1.8 million Oregonians.

the rest of the article is http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2013/08/environmentalists_press_their.html

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Logging Laws On The Line

Logging Laws On The Line

Aug. 26, 2013 | The Register-Guard

CONTRIBUTED BY:

DIANE DIETZ

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• The Oregon congressional delegation is pushing for more timber harvests off the 2.4 million acres of BLM forests in Western Ore. All the hard-fought rules governing logging on federal land in the Pacific Northwest for the past 30 years are up in the air.credit: Amelia Templeton

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The Oregon congressional delegation is pushing for more timber harvests off the 2.4 million acres of BLM forests in Western Ore. All the hard-fought rules governing logging on federal land in the Pacific Northwest for the past 30 years are up in the air. | credit: Amelia Templeton |rollover image for more

With some low-population Southern Oregon counties on the verge of insolvency, the Oregon congressional delegation seems determined to get more money-producing timber harvests off the 2.4 million acres of federal Bureau of Land Management forests in Western Oregon.

Their actions — including the advance of a sweeping logging bill in the House — has made timber executives, environmentalists and rural residents all anxious, because nobody knows whether the bill will become law, and if it does what it will look like.

All the hard-fought rules governing logging on federal land in the Pacific Northwest for the past 30 years are up in the air.

Some provisions in House Bill 1526 would take Oregon’s O&C; lands back to the peak logging of up to 1.6 billion board feet a year during the 1980s, before a string of court cases found that the harvest was breaking environmental laws and dropped the cut by 90 percent.

The sweeping bill would jeopardize salmon, spotted owls, old growth and watersheds — including those where most Oregonians draw their drinking water, said Sean Stevens, executive director of the Oregon Wild environmental group.

“It really is the worst attack on public lands across the country in a generation,” he said.

But county officials and timber executives fear provisions that would allow environmentalists to defeat the purpose of HB 1526 and keep the cut below 200 million board feet a year — leaving not enough logs for the mills or cash for the counties.

In the House, the O&C; plan is being championed by Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Springfield.

In the Senate, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, is working on a parallel but unspecified bill. He said his measure would ensure the logging and suppress the litigation on the 2.4 million acres of Oregon BLM forests known as the O&C; — short for Oregon & California — lands.

“The Oregon delegation is absolutely determined to fix this O&C; situation. The alternative to not passing legislation is just completely unacceptable,” Oregon’s senior senator said. “If a bill doesn’t pass, a bad situation gets worse. I’m not waiting for that catastrophe.”

The O&C; lands spread out across rural parts of Western Oregon in a checkerboard — from Columbia County to the north to the Oregon-California border to the south.

The lands exist as they are because in 1866, Congress gave the Oregon & California Railroad every other mile-square section of land, so the railroad could sell the land to settlers to finance construction of the rail line. Later, the lands reverted to the government.

Click here for a complete version of this article.

source:  http://earthfix.info/land/article/logging-laws-on-the-line/