From: tomg@hpcvusc (Thomas J. Gilg)
Subject: fyi: Oregon Trout Alert, Salmon Council Plan
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:40:12 GMT

Passing this stuff on for those interested:

   1. Oregon Trout Action Alert - Oregon Department of Forestry Rulemaking
   2. Council adopts plan to save salmon runs

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com

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Oregon Trout Action Alert - Oregon Department of Forestry Rulemaking

The Oregon Department of Forestry is drafting stream and riparian
protection rules for forest practices on state and private lands.
These rules will provide specific guidelines for operators to
insure that riparian habitat is both protected and restored.

The most critical issues concern protection for standing trees in
riparian areas.   We need a rule which provides for a NO-CUT BUFFER.
Leaving trees near a stream uncut is without any doubt the most
efficient, and probably the only way to achieve the following:

   o Protection of stream structure as it exists today from
     further degradation;
   o Improvement of stream structure (currently substantially degraded
     in nearly every watershed in Oregon);
   o Provision for the essential, continual addition of woody debris
     to forest land streams.

Please write: Ms. Janet McLennan, Chair of the Oregon Board of
Forestry, 2600 State Street, Salem, OR 97310 (378-2560).  State
your support for a no-cut buffer.   Point out that such a buffer
can only be effective if it is retained through all future harvest
cycles.

Note: The Riparian Protection Rules are being formulated as a result
of the 1991 Forest Practices Act revisions which the timber industry
wanted and passed.   Now that scientific information has been collected
and put to use, the industry does not like the message that the Draft
rules have brought.

Industry has asked for and received a three month delay from the Board
of Forestry, despite the legislative mandate to adopt these rules by
September 1, 1992.   The delay and the Regional meetings are intended
to allow industry time to weaken the draft rules.

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Council adopts plan to save salmon runs

Boise (AP) - In what chairman Ted Hallock called a "world-class
action," the Northwest Power Planning Council in Wednesday adopted
a comprehensive strategy to rebuild Pacific Northwest salmon runs.

   But in breaking the impasse that thwarted approval of the plan
last month, council members accepted a compromise on the targets
for annual salmon returns two decades from now while putting off for
a year final decisions on exactly what methods will be pursued to
achieve those targets.

   Although the deal set a specific target of 50,000 returning wild
spring chinook each year, conservationists said the council avoided
the important decision about how to get there, and they threatened
to go to court to force more definitive action.

   The plan is prompted by the National Marine Fisheries Service's
declaration of the Snake River Sockeye salmon as endangered and the
spring-summer and fall chinook salmon as threatened.

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