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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.635 - Officers.

(1) The board of directors annually shall elect a chairperson.
(2) The board of directors shall meet regularly at least once each quarter, and at such other times as called by the chairperson. [1991 c.949 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.640 - General authority of institute.

The Oregon Forest Resources Institute shall enhance and provide support for Oregon’s forest products industry. In achieving these objectives the institute may:
(1) Increase public understanding of the practice of forestry and the use and benefits of forest products.
(2) Support education and cooperative efforts among private forest landowners and within the forest products industry to:
(a) Practice good stewardship of the land, and protect water and other public resources to the maximum extent practicable;
(b) Encourage the conversion of underproductive rural lands to forest uses, and provide information to private landowners on the means to facilitate such conversions;
(c) Encourage, facilitate and assist private forest landowners to meet or exceed state and federal regulations governing forest operations;
(d) Evaluate and communicate to private forest landowners the stewardship responsibility expectations of the public; and
(e) In cooperation with the State Forestry Department, Oregon State University and other appropriate government or private entities, serve as a clearinghouse for the dissemination of information to private forest landowners, through conferences, workshops and other means, about modern land management practices.
(3) Conduct research and help facilitate continued improvement in wood utilization and in secondary wood products manufacturing.
(4) Publish and sell publications and other materials relating to any program or function authorized by ORS 526.600 to 526.675. The institute may contract for the publication of the materials described in this subsection, including the research, design and writing of the materials. The contract may include, among other matters, provisions for advance payment or reimbursement for services performed under the contract. The price of such publications shall include the cost of publishing and distributing the materials. All moneys received by the institute from the sale of publications shall be deposited in the Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund. [1991 c.949 §11; 1997 c.15 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.645 - Additional powers.

In addition to the functions listed in ORS 526.640, the Oregon Forest Resources Institute may:
(1) Conduct research and disseminate reliable information based upon such research.
(2) Sue and be sued as an institute without individual liability for acts of the board of directors within the scope of the powers conferred upon it by law.
(3) Enter into contracts which the board of directors considers necessary to carry out the duties, functions and powers imposed upon the institute by law.
(4) Borrow money in amounts not to exceed 50 percent of the board of directors’ estimate of the institute’s revenue from the current year’s harvest.
(5) Appoint subordinate officers and employees of the institute and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation.
(6) Adopt, rescind, modify or amend all proper orders, regulations, rules and resolutions for the exercise of its duties, functions and powers. [1991 c.949 §12]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.650 - Expenditure of funds restricted.

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 526.645 (2), no funds shall be expended by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute for the purpose of supporting or opposing litigation or other legal action which is unrelated to the administration of the institute.
(2) No funds shall be expended by the institute for the purpose of influencing, or attempting to influence, any legislation or any rulemaking or other administrative activity of any state board, commission or agency. [1991 c.949 §13]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.655 - Acceptance of grants, donations and gifts.

The Oregon Forest Resources Institute may accept grants, donations or gifts from any source for expenditures for any purposes consistent with the purposes of ORS 526.600 to 526.675. All funds so received shall be handled as specified in ORS 526.600 to 526.675 for other moneys received by the institute. [1991 c.949 §14]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.660 - Application of budget and expenditure control laws.

The provisions of ORS 576.410 to 576.450 as set forth in the 2001 Edition of Oregon Revised Statutes, pertaining to budget and expenditure control, apply to budgets and expenditures of the Oregon Forest Resources Institute except that:
(1) All references in such statutes to the Director of Agriculture shall be considered references to the State Forester.
(2) All references in such statutes to the board shall be considered references to the State Board of Forestry.
(3) All references in such statutes to the commission shall be considered references to the board of directors of the institute.
(4) Copies of proposed budgets required as described by ORS 576.425 (1) as set forth in the 2001 Edition of Oregon Revised Statutes shall not be sent to county extension agents, but shall be available for inspection at the institute office and at the office of the State Forester in Salem.
(5) The State Forester shall examine and certify the budget in the manner provided under ORS 576.430 (2) as set forth in the 2001 Edition of Oregon Revised Statutes and make the determination in the same manner as a determination by the Director of Agriculture under ORS 576.445 (2) as set forth in the 2001 Edition of Oregon Revised Statutes. [1991 c.949 §16; 1995 c.225 §6; 2003 c.604 §102]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.665 - Exemption from certain financial administration laws.

Except as otherwise provided in ORS 526.600 to 526.675, ORS 291.026, 291.201 to 291.222, 291.232 to 291.260, 291.322 to 291.334, 292.210 to 292.250, 293.260 to 293.280, 293.295 to 293.346 and 293.590 to 293.640 do not apply to the Oregon Forest Resources Institute or to the administration and enforcement of ORS 526.600 to 526.675. [1991 c.949 §17]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.675 - Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund; use of moneys; rules.

(1) The Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund is created in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Except as otherwise provided by law, all moneys received by the Oregon Forest Resources Institute shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to the fund. All moneys in the fund are appropriated continuously to the institute to carry out its duties, functions and powers. Interest earnings on all moneys in the fund shall be retained in the fund.
(2) The board of directors of the institute may repay moneys from the fund to persons who paid a privilege tax levied under ORS 321.017. The board may repay the amount of tax paid upon application by the person who paid the tax. The board shall adopt rules necessary for the implementation of this subsection. Rules adopted by the board shall include standards for the repayment of moneys and limits on the amount that may be requested. [1991 c.949 §20; 2003 c.423 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.695 - Definitions for ORS 526.695 to 526.775.

As used in ORS 526.695 to 526.775, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) "Contract" means the contract signed by the forestland owner and the State Forester, acting on behalf of the Forest Resource Trust pursuant to ORS 526.705.
(2) "Ecosystem services" means environmental benefits arising from the conservation and management of forestland, including, but not limited to, fish and wildlife habitat, clean water and air, pollination, mitigation of environmental hazards, control of pests and diseases, carbon sequestration, avoidance of carbon dioxide emissions and maintenance of soil productivity.
(3) "Forestland owner" means the individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, association, joint stock company, trustee, business trust or unincorporated organization holding fee simple ownership of land capable of producing forest products.
(4) "Forest products" includes, but is not limited to, trees, logs, poles, lumber, chips or pulp that flow from investment of the Forest Resource Trust.
(5) "Forest Resource Trust programs" means the voluntary cost share program established by ORS 526.703, the voluntary loan program established by ORS 526.705 and other programs administered by the State Board of Forestry to further the purposes of the Forest Resource Trust pursuant to ORS 526.695 to 526.775.
(6) "Qualified private or local government forestland owner" means a private or local government forestland owner that qualifies for a specific Forest Resource Trust program, as described in rules adopted by the board. [Formerly 526.735]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.700 - Forest Resource Trust; purpose; trustees; advisory committee; rules; duties.

(1) The Forest Resource Trust is established in the State Forestry Department. The Forest Resource Trust shall provide funds for financial, technical and related assistance to qualified private and local government forestland owners for stand establishment and improved management of forestlands for timber production as well as wildlife, water quality and other environmental purposes.
(2) The members of the State Board of Forestry shall have overall responsibility for management of the Forest Resource Trust. The board is authorized to establish policies and programs in addition to those created by ORS 526.695 to 526.775 to further the purposes of the trust.
(3) The board shall appoint an advisory committee consisting of no more than 15 members representing the public, nonindustrial private forestland owners, the forest products industry, forest consultants and contractors, the financial community, environmental and conservation organizations and other related interests including affected state agencies. The advisory committee shall assist the board in setting policy for the best use and investment of funds available to the trust and otherwise assist board members in the performance of their duties as trustees.
(4) In accordance with any applicable provisions of ORS chapter 183, the board shall adopt rules to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the Forest Resource Trust and to guide implementation of the Forest Resource Trust programs.
(5) The State Forester is responsible for implementing board policies and programs for the Forest Resource Trust. [1993 c.765 §57; 2007 c.201 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.703 - Cost share program; purpose; advance of moneys and assistance.

(1) The State Board of Forestry shall establish a voluntary cost share program to ensure that the purposes of the Forest Resource Trust are achieved. The purpose of the program is to provide financial and other incentives for stand establishment and improved management of nonindustrial private forestlands.
(2) In advancing moneys and providing other assistance for stand establishment and improved forest management, the State Forester shall:
(a) Give priority, to the extent possible, to lands zoned for forest use under county comprehensive plans and to other lands with moderate to high probability of success for long-term stand establishment and improved forest management activities; and
(b) Assist landowners in securing payments for ecosystem services. [2007 c.201 §2]
Note:
526.703 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 526 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.710 - State Forestry Department to assist board.

To assist the State Board of Forestry in carrying out the duties of the Forest Resource Trust, the State Forestry Department shall:
(1) Identify potentially suitable lands, and educate the owners of those lands on Forest Resource Trust programs.
(2) Provide technical and other management assistance to participating landowners.
(3) Monitor compliance with Forest Resource Trust programs by participating landowners.
(4) Encourage involvement of the landowner.
(5) Encourage the use of private contractors, consultants, forestry extension programs, nongovernmental organizations and landowner cooperatives.
(6) Develop project plans in cooperation with landowners that establish clear benchmarks for compliance with terms of the plan.
(7) Release from financial obligation for any portion of the qualified private and local government forestlands included under Forest Resource Trust programs and irretrievably lost to insects, disease, fire, storm, flood or other natural destruction through no fault of the landowner.
(8) Secure provisions for access to the land by the State Forester.
(9) Give consideration to conservation plans or strategies adopted by the State Department of Fish and Wildlife when setting priorities for Forest Resource Trust programs. [1993 c.765 §59; 2007 c.201 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.720 - Forest Resource Trust Fund.

The Forest Resource Trust Fund is created in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. The Forest Resource Trust Fund shall consist of all moneys received from whatever source to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the Forest Resource Trust. All earnings on moneys in the fund shall be retained in the fund. All moneys in the fund are appropriated continuously to the State Forestry Department to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the Forest Resource Trust, including State Forestry Department administrative expenses. [1993 c.765 §61]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.725 - Agreements with private, governmental or other organizations; land acquisitions; investment of funds; forestry carbon offsets; trust on governmental agencies or officers not created.

(1) The State Board of Forestry or the State Forester may enter into agreements with private, governmental or other organizations and may accept contributions, gifts or grants from any source to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the Forest Resource Trust. All moneys received by the board or the State Forester pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the Forest Resource Trust Fund.
(2) The board may acquire, on behalf of the Forest Resource Trust, through exchange, lease or purchase, land only to the extent necessary to carry out the duties, functions and powers of the trust.
(3) Agreements with private, governmental or other organizations under subsection (1) of this section may specify the terms under which funds are invested and benefits accrue to the contributing party to the extent the agreement is consistent with the provisions of ORS 526.695 to 526.775.
(4) The State Forester may, on behalf of the Forest Resource Trust, market, register, transfer or sell forestry carbon offsets attributable to the lands enrolled in the stand establishment program under ORS 526.705. Prices for the transfer or sale of forestry carbon offsets may be negotiated but must be at or greater than fair market value.
(5) Nothing in ORS 526.695 to 526.775 is intended to create an enforceable trust on any agency or officer of the State of Oregon. [1993 c.765 §62; 2001 c.752 §7; 2007 c.201 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.730 - Report to legislature.

The State Board of Forestry, after consultation with the advisory committee appointed pursuant to ORS 526.700, shall prepare and submit a report to the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly that contains the following information regarding the Forest Resource Trust Fund:
(1) Program accomplishments;
(2) Financial assistance payments to participating landowners;
(3) Revenues received by the fund; and
(4) Expenditures made from the fund. [1993 c.765 §63; 2007 c.201 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.740 - Lien for moneys payable to trust by forestland owner; attachment to severed forest products and accounts receivable.

(1) From and after recording of the notice of lien pursuant to ORS 526.745, the Forest Resource Trust has a lien for the moneys payable to the trust by the forestland owner under the terms of the contract.
(2) The lien created by subsection (1) of this section constitutes a general lien upon all forest products grown or growing on the forestland described in the contract, whether standing on the forestland, severed and remaining on the forestland, severed and transported to another area for sale or processing, or made into forest products on the forestland. If the forest product is severed and delivered to a purchaser or mill, the lien continues against the forest product and the lien also attaches to accounts receivable evidencing indebtedness of the purchaser or mill. The lien attaches to the accounts receivable on the date on which the forestland owner sells the forest products and relates to the date on which notice of lien was filed under ORS 526.745. [1995 c.207 §3; 2001 c.51 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.745 - Notice of lien; filing.

(1) The State Forester may file a notice of lien under ORS 526.740 anytime after the contract is executed.
(2) The State Forester shall file the notice of lien with the recording officer of the county or counties where the forestland is located. The notice shall be in writing verified by the State Forester and shall contain:
(a) The name of each owner of the forestland identified in the contract;
(b) A legal description of the forestland identified in the contract in conformance with ORS 93.600;
(c) A description of the forest products to be covered by the lien;
(d) A statement that the lien includes a lien on accounts receivable from the sale of any forest products covered by the lien and that the lien on forest products and accounts receivable shall have priority as of the date of filing of the notice of lien under this section; and
(e) A statement of the amount of funds to be paid under the contract.
(3) Within 10 days after the State Forester files the notice of lien under this section, the State Forester shall send a copy of the notice to each of the following persons whose interest in the forestland referred to in subsection (2)(a) of this section is of record as of the date the State Forester files the notice of lien with the county recording officer:
(a) Each seller on a land sale contract covering all or any part of the forestland referred to in subsection (2)(a) of this section;
(b) Each mortgagee upon a mortgage covering all or part of the forestland referred to in subsection (2)(a) of this section; and
(c) Each beneficiary of a trust deed covering all or part of the forestland referred to in subsection (2)(a) of this section. [1995 c.207 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.750 - Recording of notice; fee.

The recording officer of the county shall record the notices made under ORS 526.745. The record shall be indexed in the same manner as the record of deeds and mortgages. The recording officer shall charge and collect from the Forest Resource Trust, for the benefit of the county, the fee established in ORS 205.320. [1995 c.207 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.755 - Foreclosure; costs.

(1) The lien created by and filed under ORS 526.740 and 526.745 shall be foreclosed in the manner provided by law for the foreclosure of liens generally.
(2) In all suits under ORS 526.695 and 526.740 to 526.775, the court, upon entering judgment for the plaintiff, shall allow as a part of the costs all moneys paid for the filing and recording of the lien, all moneys paid for sending notices of the lien to third parties pursuant to ORS 526.745 (3), all moneys paid for title reports and policies required for preparing and foreclosing the lien, and a reasonable amount for attorney fees at trial and on appeal to the party who prevails on the issue of the validity of the lien. [1995 c.207 §6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.760 - Priority; lien survives land foreclosure proceedings.

(1) The lien on forest products and accounts receivable created by ORS 526.740 is valid and shall have priority over all other liens, security interests and encumbrances on the forest products and accounts receivable covered by the lien even though it does not create a lien on the land on which the forest products are growing, except that ad valorem taxes and duly perfected liens, security interests and encumbrances which were perfected prior to the filing of the notice of lien under ORS 526.745 shall have priority over a lien created under ORS 526.740.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the lien upon forest products and accounts receivable created by ORS 526.740 shall survive the foreclosure of any land sale contract, mortgage, trust deed or other lien or encumbrance upon or security interest in the forest products or the forestland described in the notice of lien filed under ORS 526.745, and shall remain in full force and effect until released, fully satisfied or foreclosed. [1995 c.207 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.765 - Payment of funds advanced; release of lien.

(1) When the State Forester receives full payment of funds described in the notice of lien filed under ORS 526.745, or if the lien is released, the State Forester shall file with the recording officer of the county in which the claim is recorded a certificate declaring that full payment has been received, or that the lien has been released, and that the claim of lien is discharged. The certificate shall include the name of the forestland owner, the date of filing of the notice of lien under ORS 526.745 and a legal description of the land affected in conformance with ORS 93.600.
(2) Upon receiving the certificate, the recording officer shall enter it in full length in the book kept to record such liens. [1995 c.207 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.770 - Notice of forest products harvest; contents; forest products purchasers.

(1) No harvest or removal of forest products on forestland covered by a contract between the forest landowner and the Forest Resource Trust shall occur without the landowner or the timber owner first notifying the State Forester in writing, on forms prepared by the State Forester, of intent to harvest or remove forest products. Notice shall be made in the same manner as notice provided under ORS 527.670 (6).
(2) The notification shall specify where and when the harvest or removal of forest products will take place, the nature of the harvest or removal of forest products and where and to whom the forest products will be sold or delivered and shall include maps or other information as required by the State Forester. Upon receipt of notification pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the State Forester shall notify the landowner, and any person to whom the forest products will be sold or delivered, of the repayment obligation specified in any contract between the forest landowner and the State Forester. The landowner shall make payment to the State Forester. Such payment shall be deposited in the Forest Resource Trust Fund. If payment is not made within 60 days of harvest or removal of forest products, the lien shall be delinquent and may be foreclosed in the manner described in ORS 526.755. [1995 c.207 §9]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.775 - Execution of judgment against other property when forest products and accounts not subject to lien.

Notwithstanding ORS 526.695 and 526.740 to 526.775, if the forest landowner and the State Forester entered into a contract as provided in ORS 526.705 and the contract is terminated or breached, and there are no forest products or accounts receivable subject to the lien created under ORS 526.740, any judgment entered against the landowner for breach or termination of the contract may be executed on any property of the landowner. [1995 c.207 §10; 2007 c.201 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.780 - Agreements for forestry carbon offsets; requirements; creation; disposition of revenues.

(1) The State Forester may enter into agreements with nonfederal forest landowners as a means to market, register, transfer or sell forestry carbon offsets on behalf of the landowners to provide a stewardship incentive for nonfederal forestlands.
(2) The State Forester may enter into an agreement described in this section if all of the following criteria are met:
(a) The agreement must ensure continuous management of the nonfederal forestlands at a standard that, in the judgment of the State Forester, would not occur in the absence of the agreement.
(b) Any forestry carbon offsets managed by the agreement must be attributable to the subject nonfederal forestland as determined by the forestry carbon offset accounting system established in ORS 526.783.
(c) Prices for the transfer or sale of forestry carbon offsets may be negotiated on behalf of the nonfederal forest landowner and must be at or greater than fair market value.
(d) The agreement must provide for the following distribution of proceeds from the transfer or sale of forest carbon offsets attributable to the subject nonfederal forestland:
(A) Not less than 50 percent to the nonfederal forest landowner;
(B) Not more than 25 percent to the State Forester to fund programs providing coordinated technical, financial or management planning assistance to nonindustrial private forest landowners; and
(C) Not more than 25 percent to the State Forester to fund administration of the forestry carbon offset program.
(3) All revenues received and any interest earned on moneys distributed to the State Forester under subsection (2)(d)(B) and (C) of this section shall be credited to the State Forestry Department Account and may be expended only for the purposes stated in subsection (2)(d)(B) and (C) of this section.
(4) A person or governmental agency may create a forestry carbon offset by performing, financing or otherwise causing one or more of the following activities:
(a) Afforestation or reforestation of underproducing lands that are not subject to required reforestation under the Oregon Forest Practices Act;
(b) Forest management activities not required under law existing at the point of creation of the forestry carbon offset, including but not limited to the following practices:
(A) Stand density control treatments in overstocked, underproducing stands of timber;
(B) Silvicultural practices that increase forest stand biomass, including but not limited to structure based management, variable retention, uneven age management, longer rotation ages and no harvest reserves;
(C) Expanded riparian buffers and other leave areas; and
(D) Deferred harvest rotations past 50 years or the age of economic maturity, whichever is longer; and
(c) Other activities as defined by rule by the State Board of Forestry. [2001 c.752 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.783 - Development of forestry carbon offset accounting system.

As a means of consistently reporting forestry carbon offsets created through programs established under ORS 526.725, 526.780 to 526.789, 530.050 or 530.500, the State Forester shall develop a forestry carbon offset accounting system for the registration, transfer or sale of forestry carbon offsets. The forestry carbon offset accounting system shall:
(1) Use accepted principles and standards relating to creating, measuring, monitoring, marketing, verifying, registering, transferring and selling carbon offsets used as mitigation for carbon dioxide emissions; and
(2) Be consistent with any rules adopted by the State Board of Forestry under ORS 526.786. [2001 c.752 §3; 2007 c.201 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.789 - Effect of state forestry carbon offset program.

Nothing in ORS 526.005, 526.725, 526.780 to 526.789, 530.050 or 530.500 shall prohibit any person or governmental agency from marketing, selling or transferring forestry carbon offsets independently from the State Forester program established under ORS 526.725, 526.780 to 526.789, 530.050 or 530.500. Rules adopted by the State Board of Forestry pursuant to ORS 526.786 may not prohibit any person from marketing, selling or transferring forestry carbon offsets using principles and standards different than those adopted by the board. [2001 c.752 §5]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.801 - Definitions for ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992.

As used in ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992:
(1) "Export" means that unprocessed timber is loaded on a vessel or other conveyance with a foreign destination or is present at a facility such as a port or dock with intent to load it on a vessel or other conveyance with a foreign destination.
(2) "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a public or private corporation, an unincorporated association or any other legal entity. "Person" includes any subsidiary subcontractor, parent company or other affiliate. Business entities are considered affiliates when one controls or has the power to control the other or when both are controlled directly or indirectly by a third person.
(3) "Private lands" means lands within the State of Oregon owned by a person. "Private lands" does not include federal lands or nonfederal public lands, or any lands the title to which is:
(a) Held in trust by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe or individual.
(b) Held by any Indian tribe or individual subject to a restriction by the United States against alienation.
(4) "Public body" means an agency of the State of Oregon or of any other political subdivision.
(5) "Public lands" means lands owned by the State of Oregon or by any other political subdivision.
(6) "Unprocessed timber" means trees or portions of trees or other roundwood not processed to standards and specifications suitable for end product use. "Unprocessed timber" does not include timber processed into any one of the following:
(a) Lumber or construction timbers, meeting current American Lumber Standards Grades or Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau Export R or N list grades, sawn on four sides, not intended for remanufacture.
(b) Lumber, construction timbers, or cants for remanufacture, meeting current American Lumber Standards Grades or Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau Export R or N list clear grades, sawn on four sides, not to exceed 12 inches (nominal) in thickness.
(c) Lumber, construction timbers or cants for remanufacture, that do not meet the grades referred to in paragraph (b) of this subsection and are sawn on four sides, with wane less than one-fourth of any face, not exceeding eight and three-fourths inches in thickness.
(d) Chips, pulp or pulp products.
(e) Veneer or plywood.
(f) Poles, posts or piling cut or treated with preservatives for use as such.
(g) Shakes or shingles.
(h) Aspen or other pulpwood bolts, not exceeding 100 inches in length, exported for processing into pulp.
(i) Pulp logs or cull logs processed at domestic pulp mills, domestic chip plants or other domestic operations for the purpose of conversion of the logs into chips.
(j) Firewood cut in pieces 48 inches or less in length. [1991 c.942 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.806 - Prohibition against export of unprocessed timber; prohibition against certain public timber purchases.

(1) It is unlawful to export unprocessed timber originating from public lands in Oregon.
(2) All unprocessed timber that originates from public lands is prohibited from export.
(3) In addition to all other requirements of law, no person who is prohibited from purchasing timber directly from a public agency may purchase public timber from any other person. Acquisitions of Western Red Cedar that are domestically processed into finished products to be sold into domestic or international markets are exempt from the prohibitions contained in this subsection. [1991 c.942 §§3,5,6]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.811 - Exemption from export prohibition.

The prohibitions against export contained in ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992 shall not apply to specific quantities of grades and species of unprocessed timber originating from public lands which the United States Secretary of Agriculture or Secretary of the Interior has determined by rule to be surplus to the needs of timber manufacturing facilities in the United States. [1991 c.942 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.816 - Certification by bidders for public timber.

In addition to all other requirements of law, any person submitting a bid for the purchase of public timber must certify to the following:
(1) The person will not export directly or indirectly unprocessed public timber;
(2) The person will not sell, transfer, exchange or otherwise convey unprocessed public timber to any other person without obtaining a certification from the person of the person’s intent to comply with ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992; and
(3) Unless exempted by rule of a public agency, the person has not exported unprocessed timber from private lands in Oregon for a period of not less than 24 months prior to the date of submission of the bid. [1991 c.942 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.821 - Political subdivisions to establish rules.

All political subdivisions engaged in selling public timber shall establish, by rule, the standards and procedures to implement the provisions of ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992. [1991 c.942 §8]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.826 - Barring timber export violators from unprocessed public timber purchases.

A public agency may debar any person who violates any provision of ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992, or any rule adopted pursuant thereto, from entering into any contract for the purchase of unprocessed timber from public lands for a period of not more than five years. Such person shall also be precluded from taking delivery of public timber purchased by another party for the period of debarment. [1991 c.942 §10]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.831 - Contract cancellation for timber export violation.

A public agency may cancel any contract entered into with a person found to have violated any provision of ORS 526.801 to 526.831 and 526.992, or any rule adopted pursuant thereto. [1991 c.942 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.900 - Review of state regulations and policies affecting implementation of conservation strategies.

(1) The State Forestry Department and the State Department of Agriculture shall, in consultation with relevant state agencies and other public or private organizations, review state statutes, rules, policies and programs that affect landowner decisions to implement conservation strategies.
(2) The review conducted under subsection (1) of this section shall include:
(a) Establishing a statewide strategy for the implementation and coordination of incentives, regulatory disincentives, expedited permit processes and related taxes.
(b) The development of a stewardship agreement program for rural lands that establishes a baseline management standard for landowners and a voluntary higher standard that provides natural resource benefits and regulatory certainty for landowners. [2001 c.708 §17]
Note:
526.900 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 526 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.991 - Criminal penalty for large commercial event offense.

An organizer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the organizer:
(1) Accepts money or other items of value in an exchange described under ORS 526.287 (2)(a) prior to the issuance of a large commercial event permit required under ORS 526.291; or
(2) Recklessly allows the violation of a term or condition of a large commercial event permit issued to the organizer by the State Forestry Department. [2015 c.713 §7]
Note:
See note under 526.287.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 526 - Forestry Administration › Section 526.992 - Criminal and civil penalties for timber export violation.

(1) A person who, with willful disregard for the prohibitions contained in ORS 526.801 to 526.831 against exporting public timber, exported or caused to be exported unprocessed timber originating from public lands in violation of this chapter is guilty of a Class C felony and may be assessed a civil penalty not to exceed $500,000 for each violation or three times the gross value of the unprocessed timber involved in the violation, whichever amount is greater.
(2) If the agency concerned finds, on the record and after an opportunity for a hearing, that a person has violated any provision of ORS 526.801 to 526.831 or any rule issued pursuant thereto relating to lands which the agency administers (notwithstanding that such violation may not have caused the export of unprocessed public timber in violation of this chapter), such agency may:
(a) Assess against such person a civil penalty not more than $75,000 for each violation if it is determined that the violation was casual or involuntary.
(b) Assess against such person a civil penalty not more than $500,000 or three times the gross value of the unprocessed timber involved in the violation, whichever amount is greater, if it is determined that the person committed such violation willfully. Any person who willfully commits such a violation is guilty of a Class C felony.
(3) Any civil penalty imposed under this section shall become due and payable when the person incurring the penalty receives a notice in writing of the imposition of the penalty. The notice may be personally served on the person incurring the penalty or may be sent by registered or certified mail.
(4) The person incurring the penalty shall have 20 days from the date of receiving the notice to make written application for a hearing.
(5) Any person who makes application as provided for in subsection (4) of this section shall be entitled to a hearing. The hearing shall be conducted as a contested case hearing pursuant to the applicable provisions of ORS 183.413 to 183.470.
(6) Judicial review of an order made after a hearing under this section shall be as provided in ORS 183.480 to 183.497 for judicial review of contested cases.
(7) When an order assessing a civil penalty under this section becomes final by operation of law or on appeal, and the amount of penalty is not paid within 10 days after the order becomes final, the order may be recorded with the county clerk in any county of this state. The clerk shall thereupon record the name of the person incurring the penalty and the amount of the penalty in the County Clerk Lien Record.
(8) All moneys recovered pursuant to this section shall be paid into the State Forestry Department Account and may be used only to pay the expenses of administration, investigation and enforcement of ORS 526.801 to 526.831 by the State Forester or any law enforcement agency. [1991 c.942 §9; 1999 c.59 §165]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 527 - Pest Control; Forest Practices › Section 527.260 - Injuring forest tree of another or extracting pitch without, or in violation of, a permit prohibited; permit to extract pitch.

(1) No person shall willfully and unlawfully:
(a) Bore or cut any forest tree belonging to another for the purpose of extracting pitch;
(b) Cut, injure or deface any such tree for the purpose of taking any part of it; or
(c) Injure or destroy any such tree.
(2) The State Forester, with the consent of the owner of the land, shall issue permits for the extraction of pitch from forest trees. The terms of the permits shall clearly describe the area to which the extraction shall be confined and state the precautions necessary, in the judgment of the State Forester, to be taken by the permittee, so that the extraction will not result in an increased fire hazard to life and adjoining property.
(3) No person shall:
(a) Bore or cut any forest tree for the purpose of extracting pitch without having first obtained a permit to do so; or
(b) Willfully or negligently fail to comply with the terms of the permit. [Amended by 1995 c.79 §299]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 527 - Pest Control; Forest Practices › Section 527.310 - Definitions for ORS 527.310 to 527.370.

As used in and for the purposes of ORS 527.310 to 527.370:
(1) "Control" means reduction of resource losses or pest occurrences to an acceptable level by direct and immediate application of effective prevention, suppression or eradication strategies, or any combination thereof.
(2) "Eradication" means the implementation of strategies through host or pest destruction or removal, or by the use of pesticides, to contain or completely eliminate exotic pests in a specific area, or both.
(3) "Exotic" means any pest that has been accidentally or deliberately introduced into an area where it does not naturally occur.
(4) "Forestland" means any nonfederal land which has enough timber or forest growths, standing or down, to constitute, in the judgment of the State Board of Forestry, forest pests of a nature to be harmful, detrimental and injurious to the management objectives for the site.
(5) "Integrated pest management" means a coordinated decision-making process that utilizes the most appropriate of all reasonably available means, tactics or strategies blended together to minimize the impact of forest pests in an environmentally and economically sound manner to meet site specific management objectives.
(6) "Native" means any pest that is indigenous or naturally occurring in a particular area.
(7) "Owner" means any person owning nonfederal forestlands or timber as shown on the latest records of the tax collector of the county in which the forestlands or timber is situated. Where timber is owned entirely separate and apart from the land whereon it grows or is situated, "owner" means any person owning such timber as shown on the latest records of the tax collector of the county in which the timber is situated.
(8) "Pest" means any forest insect or disease which causes or may cause damage that prevents or interferes with management objectives in a specific area.
(9) "Pesticide" has the meaning given that term in ORS 634.006.
(10) "Prevention" means the implementation of strategies designed to minimize the impact of a pest before an outbreak occurs, including but not limited to, release or enhancement of natural enemies and silvicultural activities to increase tree vigor or otherwise reduce tree susceptibility to pest damage. "Prevention" requires the incorporation of integrated pest management into overall forest resource management in order to create ecological conditions unfavorable for the reproduction or survival of pest organisms.
(11) "Strategies" may include, but are not limited to, physical and biological methods and application of pesticides.
(12) "Suppression" means the implementation of intervention strategies designed to reduce native pest populations to acceptable levels necessary to meet forest resource management objectives in a specified area. [Amended by 1967 c.87 §1; 1991 c.686 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 14 - Drugs and Alcohol, Fire Protection, Natural Resources › Chapter 527 - Pest Control; Forest Practices › Section 527.315 - Process components.

The integrated pest management process shall consist of:
(1) Defining the management unit or area of concern.
(2) Defining site specific management objectives that are compatible with the ecosystem of concern and that are achievable within the economic, logistical and regulatory constraints that apply.
(3) Establishing or maintaining routine detection and monitoring systems of major pests and their damage through ground and aerial surveys.
(4) Evaluating forest and pest conditions on specified site.
(5) Establishing pest population thresholds or acceptable levels of damage, or both, but not taking action until those levels are exceeded or where historical documentation has verified a reoccurring problem.
(6) Developing and evaluating potential strategies.
(7) Considering the following in selecting a strategy:
(a) Effectiveness;
(b) Operational feasibility;
(c) Cost-effectiveness;
(d) Ecological soundness;
(e) Environmental impact; and
(f) Site specific resource management objectives.
(8) Implementing the strategy selected.
(9) Timing actions for maximum effectiveness by monitoring pest, host development and weather.
(10) Monitoring and evaluating results of activities and strategies.
(11) Keeping current, accurate records.
(12) Structuring the program so that it can be adjusted to meet changes or varying situations. [1991 c.686 §3]