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Articulate
your views on the use and management of public lands for the
forest industry. Include your position on below-cost timber sales.
What kinds of practices do you support? What kinds of limits do you
believe to be necessary? Write a letter expressing your views and
your justification for them to your legislator.
Obtain
literature about the forestry industry in Oregon from a variety of
sources, e.g., the USDA Forest Service, the Association of Forest
Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, the Oregon Department of
Forestry, the Southern Oregon Timber Industries Association, and the
Native Forest Council. Identify how the different groups present their
viewpoints, analyze the effectiveness of their presentations.
Evaluate
that support change in forest management, and in the marketing
of forest products11.
Draw
a map of your watershed and plot the locations of major land use
activities. Find out how these activities are managed. Define their
potential environmental impacts, as well as steps that are being, or
can be, taken to mitigate the impacts.
11Such programs include those sponsored by The Rogue
Institute for Ecology and Economy in Ashland, and The Ecoforestry
Institute in Glendale.
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