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Board studies six action alternatives for East Side sustainable harvest calculation
Summary
The Board of Natural Resources held a June 11 study session to continue development of action alternatives for the East Side sustainable harvest calculation, reviewing six conceptual approaches and directing staff to pursue financial, metric, and modeling follow-up work.
The Board of Natural Resources convened a virtual special study session June 11 to continue work on the East Side sustainable harvest calculation, the decadal planning exercise the department performs to set sustainable timber harvest levels.
Chair Dave Upthegrove said the project is a priority for the agency and framed the session as the step to “development of action alternatives for the East Side.” Staff framed the meeting as educational and interactive; no board votes were scheduled for the study session.
Board members and staff reviewed six preliminary concepts for alternatives — ranging from adding resilience constraints to the model, to optimizing for harvest volume or resilience, to exploring multi-objective model architectures, and to testing discount-rate and harvest-flow constraints. Susan Beal, asset management division manager, reminded the board that statutes require DNR to calculate a decadal harvest level and that the no-action alternative serves as the baseline for environmental comparison.
Staff said metrics for resilience are still in draft form and that the project team will perform business and financial analyses and sensitivity testing to inform any formal alternatives included in the EIS. The board asked staff to return with more detailed analysis on metrics, operational feasibility and the financial implications of different objective functions. Chair Upthegrove closed the session after staff summarized next steps.
