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### Knoppow, Brianna

From: Chumble, Prasad

Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 3:41 PM

To: Knoppow, Brianna Subject: FW: Follow-Up Material from March 24th Meeting

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From: ABRAHAM Kyle * ODF [mailto

Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 3:19 PM

To: Chumble, Prasad

Cc: Chip Murray >; DAUGHERTY Peter * ODF ; Gary Schiff

> Subject: Follow

‐ Up Material from March 24th Meeting

Hi Prasad,

Hope you are doing well.

I wanted to thank you and Allison for the excellent discussion last week. I appreciated hearing various ways in which States approach water quality protection from forest roads. During the discussion there were a few follow-up items that I promised to send your way.

Please find two Compliance Audit Reports, one from 2002 and on e more recently from 2013. As we discussed, the 2014 final report is under review and should be available shortly. In the meantime, an attachment from a Board of Forestry Staff Report from September 2015 describes key points between the 2013 and 2014 final reports. The field guide (monitoring protocol) for the compliance aud it is also included for your information.

During our discussion we also talked about how operator tr aining increases awareness of BMPs and may be leading to higher compliance rates with BMPs over time. We recently received a copy of the 2015 annual report from Associated Oregon Loggers with whom ODF has an MOU for operator trai ning. In the brief report you will find that ODF and AOL have performed logger training for over 15 years with this program.

We also discussed linkages between state forestry department s and environmental quality agenci es. In Oregon’s case, this is the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon Depa rtment of Environmental Qua lity. The two agencies have a long history of working together to achieve natural resource pr otections. This relationship is illuminated in the attached MOU. The MOU describes how the Board of Forestry is r esponsible for establishing BMPs to insure, to the maximum extent practicable, nonpoint sources of pollution do not impair the water quality standards established by the Environmental Quality Commission.

To help break up all the pages of text that I have sent you I’ve also included a few photos from a recent field tour that was hosted by the Tillamook State Forest regarding the concern about l e gacy roads. Legacy ro ads pose a unique situation in that attempts to reduce sediment delivery risk likely involve removing vegetation and 40+ y ear old trees. As mentioned during our discussion, if a road is reconstructed under Oregon’s BMPs that road is required to be brought up to current

standards and where inactive roads exist there is also a regulatory requirement for BMPs.2 Thanks for the opportunity and I am happy to provide any ot her information or attempt to answer follow-up questions.

Take care,

Kyle Abraham Water Quality Specialist

Private Forests Division Oregon Department of Forestry 2600 State Street. Salem, Oregon 97310