{"id":363,"date":"2012-11-01T22:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/?p=363"},"modified":"2012-11-01T22:04:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T05:04:46","slug":"forest-management-planning-in-the-forest-grove-watershed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/treetopics\/2012\/11\/01\/forest-management-planning-in-the-forest-grove-watershed\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest management planning in the Forest Grove Watershed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been immersed in the subject of forest management planning.\u00a0From developing\u00a0a website<\/a> that helps landowners navigate the process of creating a forest management plan; to collaborating on a revised set of management planning guidelines<\/a> for Oregon; to teaching Mentored Management Planning<\/a> workshops; this has been a major theme of my work over the past year.<\/p>\n

So I was interested to come across a recent\u00a0article about management planning<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the Oregonian.\u00a0The article described the\u00a0management plan that is in place for the city of Forest Grove’s\u00a04,200 acre forested watershed, and the positive\u00a0impacts that having the plan has had on the land. Though this forest is much bigger than those that\u00a0most small\u00a0woodland owners\u00a0manage, the\u00a0article\u00a0demonstrated\u00a0many of the same principles of forest management planning that I use in my courses.<\/p>\n

Management planning starts with identifying goals<\/strong> for the site. The number one goal in the case of Forest Grove\u2019s watershed is, not surprisingly, protecting drinking water quality. Biodiversity and sustainable timber management are secondary goals. These goals drive all of the actions called for in the plan \u2013 such as road rehabilitation, erosion control, and carefully planned timber harvests.<\/p>\n

Forest management planning has evolved over time. In the 1970’s and ’80’s, most forest management plans were concise timber <\/em>management plans – laying out succinct timelines for planting, weed control, thinning and clearcut harvest to optimize\u00a0wood production.\u00a0 Nowadays we take a much more holistic approach. Today’s plans consider all the different resources<\/strong> on a given piece of land \u2013 timber, of course; but also recreational resources, streams, fish and wildlife, roads, aesthetics, soils, and much more. We recognize that most landowners value many other aspects of their property as least as much as the timber resource. Well-constructed plans reflect the suite of\u00a0values of the landowner and place emphasis on\u00a0them appropriately.<\/p>\n

The other important management planning principle that I took note of in the article was the fact that the plan is being updated<\/strong>, ten years after it was originally written. It is a good idea to revisit one\u2019s plan after a time, both to check that the goals are still relevant and to recognize the progress that has been made towards achieving them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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