Construction Contracts Oregon Forestry In Suffolk
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The Oregon Forest Practices Act (FPA) sets standards for all commercial activities involving the establishment, management, or harvesting of trees on Oregon's non-federal forestlands. Oregon law gives the Board of Forestry primary responsibility to interpret the FPA and set rules for forest practices.
Oregon's neighbor tree law clarifies property boundaries: a tree on one owner's land, even spanning the property line, belongs to them. For a tree solely on your property, the decisions are yours. Joint ownership arises when a tree's trunk straddles a boundary line, sharing upkeep decisions and costs.
The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) is the agency of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon which performs a wide variety of functions relating to the management, regulation and protection of both public and private forest lands in the state.
Its forests are diverse and provide important habitat for fish and wildlife. Oregon's Forest Action Plan maps three types of high priority forests: those facing landscape wildfire risk, those vulnerable to conversion out of forest use, and those with important fish and wildlife habitats.
Clearcutting is limited by state law Oregon rules limit the size of clearcuts (when a forestland owner removes most of the trees in a given area) to 120 acres. Clearcuts must be no closer than 300 feet to another clearcut.
The general public owns most of Oregon's forests, which are held by the federal government or the state of Oregon. Private landowners of both large and small tracts of forestland own 34 percent of Oregon's forests. The remaining 2 percent of forests is in tribal ownership.
Oregon rules limit the size of clearcuts (when a forestland owner removes most of the trees in a given area) to 120 acres. Clearcuts must be no closer than 300 feet to another clearcut.
