FORESTS AND FORESTRY

Forests and Forestry
Map 19 Forestry Zoning

The Pacific Northwest cool, wet winters favor the growth of evergreen conifer forests. These abundant forests support a valuable commercial forest industry. Thirteen National Forests administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service lie within Oregon. The Willamette, Mt. Hood, and Umpqua (National) Forests of the Willamette River Basin form part of a forested corridor that runs from southern Oregon to British Columbia along the Cascade Range. Forestland in the foothills of the Cascades and the Coast Range of the Willamette River Basin also produce timber under management by the Bureau of Land Management (O&C Lands). Approximately 75% of the Willamette River Basin is forested compared with 45% of the State of Oregon.

Oregon's statewide planning goal for forest lands (goal 4) requires counties to inventory them and adopt policies and ordinances that will "conserve forest lands for forest uses."

Sources (excerpted with permission)

Payne, S. and J. Baker. (2002). Study Area. In D. Hulse, S. Gregory, and J. Baker (Eds.). Willamette River Basin planning atlas, 2nd. Edition, (p.2.). Corvallis: Oregon State University Press

Richey, D. and J. Goicochea Duclos. (2002). General Land Use Zoning. In D. Hulse, S. Gregory, and J. Baker (Eds.). Willamette River Basin planning atlas, 2nd. Edition, (p.72.). Corvallis: Oregon State University Press