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Commissioners hear logging and forest-harvest data; residents raise replanting and oversight concerns
Summary
Commissioners discussed statewide timber-harvest statistics presented to them and heard residents express concern about local logging practices, stream setbacks, replanting rules and the county's limited permitting authority over private timber harvests.
County leaders and members of the public discussed timber-harvest trends, forest-practice oversight and local impacts during public comment at the Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners meeting.
A commissioner summarized information from recent presentations by the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the state forest-practice board, telling the board that in February 2024, statewide timber harvest breakdowns showed private (large and small) landowners accounted for about 67% of harvest, state and counties about 22%, tribes about 7% and the U.S. Forest Service about 4%. The commissioner also said state forest land…
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