Oregon mills can help rehouse, restore California from fires


By Oregon State Representative Court Boice,
Press Release,

Our state has multiple well managed Lumber and Plywood Mills with full capacity to send critical wood products to Los Angeles. However, those Oregon companies and employers must have a consistent Douglas Fir Timber supply!

The answer is clearly our O&C Forests which are growing by 1 billion Board Feet each year. For almost a decade we have averaged harvesting annually only 225 million Board Feet or a mere one-fourth the growth rate. Also, noteworthy; our O&C Forest inventory has expanded by a staggering 25 billion Board Feet more than we had when it became Federal Law in 1937 (The O&C Act which my Grandfather Boice helped establish as an 18-year Curry County Commissioner).

The Sustained Yield policies mean that by State and Federal Law, our timber cannot be harvested faster than it grows, nor do we need to. Further, this plan essentially has nothing to do with nor include any US Forest Lands in our state.

Oregon has the transportation systems in place to the Los Angeles areas.

For a higher level of Timber Harvest on the BLM Forest Lands, there is no need to build any new roads or bridges as they’re already in place.

We only need to employ additional workers for added daily Mill shifts and harvesting crews.

California’s recovery doesn’t need Arizona or Canada inferior lumber or plywood.

Our neighbors 750 miles South had 14,000 homes destroyed and so many people lost everything!
With this O&C/BLM plan – everybody wins AND we can also easily produce the lumber needed for our goals of constructing thousands of Oregon homes annually. To say we have more than an adequate timber supply for both states is an understatement.

For 100 years – Oregon has mass produced the highest quality wood products available anywhere in the world. Those first 60 years we protected our forests from Catastrophic Fires. We must return to that noble responsibility.

We have a story to tell, and we intend to knock on every door and ring every bell! Timber will once again be “King” in Oregon – second only to “Common Sense”.

Oregon leads… It’s what we do, and we will return our state to normal!


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