Published in Ode magazine, April 2009 If a tree falls in a sustainably managed forest, does it have market value? Peter and Pam Hayes would like the answer to be an unequivocal “yes.” The Hayes manage Hyla Woods, an 800-acre, family-owned forest in the northern Oregon Coast Range that produces sustainably managed timber certified by [...]
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A Forest is Forever
Posted in Essays, Profiles, Trees, tagged Hyla Woods, logging, oregon, sustainable forestry, Trees on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Oregon/Washington Bureau of Land Management is not being a very good neighbor
Posted in Essays, Trees on March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dave Eisler is a private land owner whose 80 acres lie in the valley bottom of the coast range of the Siuslaw National Forest between Eugene and Florence. His neighbor is the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an arm of the US Department of the Interior, which owns 2.5-million forested acres mixed like a checkerboard into the area between the Willamette and Rogue Valleys and the Cascade and Coast Ranges. Eisler’s property is sandwiched between two BLM late successional reserves—a mixture of old growth trees and multi-age tree stands that have been preserved to cultivate old growth habitat.
However, the old growth stands that flank Eisler’s property are in serious jeopardy. In August, 2007, the BLM proposed a revision to their longstanding forest management plan. Their current plan takes its mandate from the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) which was adopted to protect local economies dependant on timber dollars and wildlife dependant on old growth habitat that were threatened by heavy logging.
Have a Nice Day, Mrs. Kaye
Posted in Essays on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
(Originally published in Oregon Humanities magazine) For my husband and I, deciding to marry was easy. It was deciding how we would marry that got complicated. Who should officiate? A Rabbi or a Unitarian Minister? We chose a Justice of the Peace. Would there be a diamond? A white dress? A tuxedo? None of the [...]
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