Forest Problems, Forest Solutions

Josh Schlossberg, 06.05.2008 15:27

On Sunday, May 18th from 10:00 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Selma Community Center Native Forest Council's Tim Hermach will join sustainable forest practitioner Orville Camp for a presentation exposing the waste and abuse of Oregon’s forests through destructive logging, while offering solutions for developing healthy human-forest relationships.

Tim Hermach will critique -- and provide strategies to put an end to -- the current devastating practices of forest liquidation being perpetrated on both public and private lands by a boom-and-bust timber industry.

“Crimes against nature are, by extension, crimes against humanity,” says Hermach.

Hermach’s talk will focus on the collective threats of the B.L.M.’s W.O.P.R. (Western Oregon Plan Revision) and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s fraudulent “Spotted Owl Recovery Plan,” the pitfalls of stewardship contracting logging on public forests, and the shortcomings of Rep. DeFazio’s “Forest Legacy Act.”

Orville Camp, a life-long Illinois Valley logger and author of “The Forest Farmer’s Handbook,” will offer an introductory slideshow to Ecostry, an alternative model to forestry, defined as: “the science, art and occupation of achieving sustainable relationships with nature and community through natural selection, the process that tests organisms for compatibility with their environment.”

According to Camp, the best way to manage a forest is to let the species that created it, sustain it. “Ecostry provides human needs while retaining natural forest ecosystems,” says Camp.

Following the presentation and discussion will be a 1 p.m. bring your own sack lunch at Selma Center, then a 3 p.m. tour of Camp Forest (2100 Thompson Creek Road in Selma) to demonstrate the practice of Ecostry at work.

From 4:30-5:30 p.m. Mary and Orville Camp will host a potluck, music by Patrick Dodd at 6:30 p.m. and good conversation around a campfire into the evening (by reservation only: email  maryc@rogueriver.net or call 541-597-4313).

“Forest Problems, Forest Solutions” is sponsored by Native Forest Council, Deer Creek Association and Cascadia’s Ecosystem Advocates.

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