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Build
a three-dimensional model of a forested area undergoing logging.
Describe the changes that occur in the landscape, as well as the
equipment, its use, and its impacts.
Evaluate
methods available for logging, including clearcut and selective
cut activities. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Begin
a dialogue between yourself and another person, one of you living in
the city and one in a logging community. Include for example,
considerations of typical activities, pace of life, amount of time spent
outdoors, viewscape, common sounds, concerns and values, and recreational
opportunities. What do you share? What would you miss if you were to
exchange places with one another?
Write
a fictional account that portrays how the physical characteristics
of a place affect logging activities there. Explain the limitations
imposed (e.g., steep slopes, unstable soils), and how they have
contributed to the situation today. Consider how the use of the resource
has affected the culture of logging, as well as the resource itself.
Prepare
and deliver a speech that discusses the Oregon Forest Practices Act
and coastal salmon restoration.
Sponsor
a panel discussion on forest management with representatives of the
USDA Forest Service, the Oregon Department of Forestry, and the forest
industry, and an environmental advocate. Note the panels respective
interests in multiple use, in producing sustainable revenue for counties,
schools, and local tax units, in producing timber to support mills, and
in conserving wilderness and roadless areas. What are the consequences
of ownership (e.g., private, public) of commercial timber on management,
harvest, and regional economies?
Chart
the history of USDA Forest Service management activities in
Oregon3. Note the shift in major harvest from private to
public lands after World War II, and today back to private sources.
Search
for practices that can be used to help mitigate environmental
impacts resulting from logging activities. Choose and area thats
being logged and survey the degree to which these practices are used.
Have
a poster contest in support of environmentally sensitive forest
management.
Learn
about the major kinds of forests that grow in Oregon, and the
relative success of reforestation efforts on each.
Prepare
an essay on the role of women in logging. Do the contributions of
women today differ from those historically? If so, in what ways?
Discuss
the kinds of traditions that exist in logging. Consider your own
family traditions. Have any been given up? What kinds of traditions
would you like to continue?
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