How do current government policies affect the strategy of protecting, maintaining, and enhancing forest ecosystem health?
The Oregon Department of Forestry was established in 1911 because of the need to suppress wildfires, which threatened public safety, timber values, and private property. Wildfire suppression on forestlands is still an important mandate for the agency today, as it is for the federal land management agencies and every state forestry agency in the West. In the past, the objectives of forest landowners and government policies alike focused on limiting damage to timber values from natural disturbance agents such as fire and native pests. Today, management objectives on most federal lands no longer emphasize timber values. Today we also understand that forest ecosystems must be managed in the context of the natural disturbance events to which they are well adapted. Oregonians continue to expect the department to carry out its aggressive protection of private property from fire. This is mandated by law and paid for by both the State General Fund and forest landowners. At the same time, the de
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