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Proposal aims to spare landowners from back taxes after removing dying Douglas firs
Summary
Rep. Marsh presented LC 242 to address cases where landowners removing diseased or dead Douglas firs lose a forest‑land tax exemption and face years of back taxes; the concept would adjust the punitive back-tax consequence while preserving existing ODF alternative-plan processes.
Representative Marsh presented LC 242 to the committee on Jan. 9, describing a narrow legislative concept to relieve landowners from punitive back taxes when they remove dying or hazardous Douglas fir trees and consequently fall out of a forest-land tax exemption.
Marsh told the committee that property owners who must remove dead or dying Douglas firs…
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