Central Oregon Bitterbrush Broads • Entered by Mary Fleischmann on January 30, 2024
Webinar’s on NWFP
January 20, 2024 – January 22, 2024
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 0.5 |
| Post Admin hours | 0.5 |
| Activity Hours | 2.75 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 3.75 |
Key Issue: Landscape Planning (Forest Plans, RMPs, TMPs, etc.)
Activity Type: Education & Outreach (tabling, films & lectures, regional B-walks/works)
Key Partners: Forest Service planners from California
Short Description of Activity
Various speakers/ forest managment personel discussing what the NWFP is, it’s purpose and what is in place currently.
Reflection/Evaluation
Somewhat educational but some of the terminology I did not understand. One of the biggest concerns we have is that much of the focus in Oregon is on the western forests which is very different than eastern forests, which do not have spotted owl population. Goal is for “desired conditions”, which is not well explained. The plans were approved 30 years ago and those conditions were not even the best back then due to logging and grazing. They shared that the amendment is to help the Forest Service to be more responsive to reviewing and monitoring…which remains to be seen. They need to comply wiht the ESA but also take into local economy.