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PENDLETON â The Umatilla/Morrow Chapter of the Oregon Small Woodlands Association is inviting forest landowners to its Spring 2021 Field Day on Saturday, May 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 55381 Albee Road near Ukiah.
The main highlight will be a fuels reduction thinning work demonstration on-site with several contractors showing various pieces of equipment to assist in reducing wildfire risks on private forest lands.
There will also be an update from both the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Natural Resources Conservation Service on future funding sources to accomplish fuels reduction thinning, an update on the timber and log prices in the area, and the benefits of becoming a member of the Oregon Small Woodland Owners Association.
Oregon wildfire recovery hampered by seedling shortage, forestry officials say
The wildfires of 2020 ravaged Oregon state forestlands, and forestry officials say that the supply of new seedlings won t meet the need for reforestation.
Posted: Mar 17, 2021 10:25 AM
Posted By: Jamie Parfitt
SALEM, Ore. Efforts to replant Oregon state forestlands scorched by the 2020 wildfires are being hampered by a short supply of new tree seedlings, the Oregon Department of Forestry said on Wednesday.
“Seedlings were already in short supply in Oregon before the fires,” said Kyle Abraham, Chief of ODF’s Private Forests Division. “Now, rough estimates are that somewhere between 80 and 140 million additional seedlings could be needed to reforest just the non-federal lands that burned in 2020.”
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Last year s wildfires created a shortage of seedlings available for replanting burned and logged trees, a situation that could put smaller landowners especially into a bind.
Much of the land scorched by wildfires like the Holiday Farm Fire in the McKenzie River Valley left private and industrial timberland with damaged and destroyed trees, leading to a great deal of logging and a West Coast-wide demand for seedling to replace them.
Industrial logging has, in some cases, shifted to harvesting burned trees in an attempt to salvage marketable timber. Private landowners are harvesting, too, but often lack the resources and forward-planning for replacement seedlings larger timber producers have.