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Committee presses staff to share final protocols and suggests a concise feedback loop
Summary
Members requested the final study protocols, urged that staff clarify how committee input was incorporated, and proposed a brief follow-up note or bullet list after meetings to show how feedback changed plans; staff agreed to circulate protocols and to explore a simple feedback summary.
Multiple committee members urged the Forestry Department to circulate final study protocols for the roads and steep-slopes pilots and asked for a simple follow-up mechanism so participants can see how their suggestions were applied.
Megan said, "we have not received the final roads and steep slopes study protocol," and asked that the team share the final documents so committee members can ground their comments in the final language. David responded: "We'll absolutely get that out to you all."
Seth proposed a short feedback loop that would summarize how committee input was used: "My suggestion... some sort of a follow-up to say, here's how those were taken into consideration... here's feedback that we received and it changed something in this way." Emily said staff take meeting notes, compile bullet-pointed feedback for Mount Hood Environmental and will explore providing a short summary or quarterly bulleted list showing how feedback was incorporated.
The committee also discussed adding qualitative elements (surveys or interviews) to pilots to help answer "why" questions—why compliance rates look a certain way—and raised concerns that supply-chain issues for materials could be mistaken for noncompliance. Staff said qualitative process analysis and outcome analysis are different designs and the pilot will help clarify which follow-up questions are needed.
