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Posted on 03/10/2023 4:10:34 AM PST by george76
School leaders in rural northwest Oregon are worried about big budget cuts. The Oregon Department of Forestry is working on a plan to protect habitats for endangered species across 640,000 acres of state forest. The loss of timber revenue will affect local schools.
The Jewell School District expects to be the most heavily impacted because it gets almost all of its funding from timber revenue. It could see budget cuts of 40 percent. The Jewell School District has about 150 students and a budget of $5 million. District superintendent Cory Pederson estimates the cuts will bring his annual budget down to $3 million.
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The Oregon Department of Forestry voted to continue with its draft habitat conservation plan. The 70-year plan would designate no-logging areas in Clatsop and Tillamook counties, decreasing timber revenue for communities such as Jewell.
The ODF’s Jason Cox says the plan would keep Oregon in compliance with the endangered species act but doesn’t have final approval yet.
“Its whole intent is to be able to continue supporting rural communities through harvesting timber along with protecting those values that I was talking about… our mission is to provide social and economic benefits to all Oregonians,” says Cox.
Schools in Oregon are funded by local sources such as timber revenue and property taxes as well as state funding. When schools see a drop in local funding, the state typically ups its contribution. But residents in the Jewell area don’t think that increase in state funding will be enough.
>>The Jewell School District has about 150 students and a budget of $5 million.
$33K per student - I think I see the problem.
Professional “owl terrorists” scare off barred owls with shotguns in the name of conservation.. In the Pacific Northwest, the barred owl is being shot to save the spotted owl. Is it working?
The northern spotted owl is again in trouble. The biggest threat to their survival this time is not a logger with a chainsaw. It is a bigger, more aggressive owl.
Exactly. That’s well over twice the national average. A 40% cut would still be above average funding.
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( x Oregon State BLM & usfs Silviculture N.T.E 180 dislocated timber worker who saw the fraud first hand having been on a spotted owl nest survey ( having wildlife biologist confess how he cooked the numbers) then lost his car, truck, mororcycle, sailboat, apartment and marriage as a result. Spit )
WHY should Oregon worry about a butterfly effect that doesn't exist ?
GOD will not allow His creation to be destroyed without his permission . . . . EXCEPT in the matter of His gift of free will in man.
Wake the F UP, people !
It always was about the barred owl intruding into spotted owl territory. It never was about loss of habitat. This goes way back, when. bunch of jackass college students from some ngo drove around in the forests and said, yup, looks like spotted owl country to me, and the lumber industry was brought to its knees.
When schools see a drop in local funding, the state typically ups its contribution From increased tax receipts - Let western Oregon burn in its own left wing, Antifa-loving juices.
The Federal gummit owns 52% of Oregon and would rather burn the trees than manage it properly.
The Teachers Union owns Oregon.
Top heavy I’m sure. It’s the way of the world now. My first job had 80 employees as does my current job. Similar manufacturing environment but the new job has three times as many white collar people.
First job was a man and his three sons plus a secretary. One of the sons was shop foreman and two were sales/management. This new job has a 3-4 dedicated “experts” to do what one of those sons used to do.
This school district is over funded for sure. But it is a very rural community and has nothing to do with the insanity that is Portland. Western Oregon is beautiful country.
Oregon Department of Forestry is working on a plan to protect habitats for endangered species.
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BS those in the forestry industry plant more trees than they take down they know not to deplete their stock.
We have more trees now before the country was founded.
Yeah I know what it looks like but the people are insane. Sorry.
Tastes kinda like cicada.
The unreported reality is that the USFS is doing everything in their power to transform all National Forests into Defacto National Parks.
Not parks with a little shack that collects fees for entry, but parks where there is no timber harvest or management, the elimination of grazing permits, closure of existing travel roads and elimination of new road construction and continuing the stupid concept of managing wildfire rather than fire suppression.
This is obvious on the NF in Idaho where I live and is an unstated management objective for all forests.
Our local forest “management” totally rejects the concept of timber harvest as a fire management tool, and every summer we have to endure the results.
But parks where there is no timber harvest or management,
Timber harvest is a form of conservation here in California like Tahoe area they don’t allow it half of the trees are dead by getting chocked out lack of sun and many fires.
Years ago the had conservation camps the cleared out such areas now that they no longer exist we have many more forest fires due to it.
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“But it is a very rural community and has nothing to do with the insanity that is Portland.”
A big part of budget is transportation for students. Increases in fuel have just made it worse.
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