The administrations first priority is _iv to get federal timber sales released from MICHAEL LLOYD/The Oregonian court injunctions that have been in 9 Monte Dahlstrom (left) and his brother, Kirk, timber workers from Hoquiam, Wash., respond to President eves forest decision place since 1991 and return forest man- Thursday, "Were so sit.k of the government. All theyve done is talk. Is this Just more talk? I dont know,," Mirk Dahlstrom said. agement to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, he said. ease timber communities through a Earlier Thursday a somber Clinton, tough transition. flanked by Vice President Al Gore and "The plan is more difficult than I four Cabinet members at a Washington, thought it would be in terms of the sizes D.C., news conference, called his plan of the timber cuts. . . . in no small mea- Q: DOES THE CLINTON PLAN PROTECT OLD-GROWTH FORESTS? Q: HOW MANY JOBS WILL BE LOST? "a departure from the failed policies of A: the past." He said it will protect the en- Please turn to Yes. It protects 3.67 million forested acres in a system of A: By 1994, when the plan is in effect, timber jobs in the owl vironment, break legal gridlock and PLAN, Page A14 reserves stretching over 8.6 million acres from the Canadian region are expected to decline by an additional 6,000 from the border to Northern California. About 80 percent of the 1992 employment level of 125,400. Most job losses already Northwests remaining old-growth forests will be included in have occurred. Timber employment dropped by 19,500 these reserves. between 1990 and 1992. New forestry guru Q: DOES THE CLINTON PLAN PROTECT OLD-GROWTH FORESTS Q: HOW MUCH TIMBER WILL BE CUT UNDER THIS PLAN? AND THE NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL? A: About 1.2 billion board feet annually. Thats about one- gets presidents ear A: Yes. It protects 80 percent of the remaining older forests fourth as much as the U. S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land where the threatened owl lives in a system of watershed and Management sold on owl forests during the record timber sale By KATHIE DURBIN old-growth reserves stretching from Canada to Northern years of the 1980s. Its two-thirds as much as new forest of The Oregonian staff plans and owl protection plans allow. California. Four years ago Jerry Forest Franklin, the feisty guru of "new forestry," had a hard time getting his bosses in the U.S. Q: WILL ANY JOBS BE GAINED? Forest Service to listen to his unorthodox ideas about finding more ecologically sensitive ways to cut trees. A: Yes. Under Clintons economic assistance plan, an 1.2 billion board feet of timber would fill enough log trucks to stretch Now, President Clinton himself has latched onto Franklins estimated 8,000 jobs will be created by 1994, mainly public 3,286.93 miles, or from Portland to Miami. It also could build 120,000 controversial and largely untested theories in his bid to solve works jobs in stream restoration. Congress has been asked to three-bedroom single-family houses. the Northwest forest conflict. appropriate $30 million to pay for those jobs. Sources: U.S. Forest Service, Oregon Franklin, a University of Washington forest ecologist with Forest Product Transportation an international following, led the effort to develop Option 9, Assn, and Western Wood • Jerry Products Assn. Clintons chosen strategy. It creates a vast system of old- growth and watershed reserves but allows light logging Franklins across most of the landscape. HARSH WORDS: Timber industry leaders see little in ecological ideas Call it what you will — ecosystem management, adaptive win over a the Clinton plan that will help workers and mills in the management, ecoforestry — the idea that logging and wildlife Al 2 protection can coexist on the same land has not been tested reluctant Forest near future / across the landscape and over time anywhere in the North- Service, and two west, as Franklin himself acknowledges. HARD SELL: experiments are Interior Sec. Bruce Babbitt, Agriculture "The thing about revolution is, you launch yourself out Sec. Mike Espy come west to defend the plan / Al 5 into new areas," Franklin said in a briefing this month on a planned new demonstration project planned for the Gifford Pinchot HARSH REALITIES: In the end, President Clintons The Oregonian National Forest in Washington. "Thats nothing new to forest- choices were more limited than he had assumed. An Q: IS THIS FINALLY THE END OF ALL THE SHOUTING? 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Vol. 142, No.47,646 — 116 pages have known someone, I think he was going after SHOOTING, Page A4 day by a gunman who opened fire on the 34th floor. ava raw UpG11 LnurLy. to logging. "In my judgment, its a matter of "Environ- common sense and erring on the mentalists side of caution," Lindberg said. He are not danc- said the development was "good ing in the news" for the city. JOEL DAVIS/1990 The Oregonian streets," said Jerry Franklin took the lead in designing the strategy President Clinton unveiled Thursday as his preferred Northwest forest management plan. Andy Kerr, conservation director for the Oregon Natural Resources Council. _JJ "This plan is, we think, risky," he said. "It does not provide a high lev- President Clintons forest plan has Franklin: Plan includes gurus theories el of protection for the forest ecosys- found an admirer in the chairman of tem to be here in a hundred years. It the Northwest Indian Fisheries Com- ■Continued from Page One est practices. He now directs the is, however, a step in the right direc- mission in Olympia. ry." Ai Olympic Natural Resources Center, tion." "In calling for ecosytem manage- The clear-cuts that checker North- which conducts forestry experi- Others attacked the plan as scien- ment on a watershed basis, the pres- west forests also were an untested We have to integrate the protection of biological ments on federal and state land in tifically flawed. ident has hit the nail on the head," experiment, Franklin noted. Washington. And he heads the Na- "While well intentioned" the plan diversity onto the lands we use. tional Science Foundations Long- said Chairman Bill Frank Jr. "The "We actually spent about 25 years "hovers on the edge of environmen- tribes have promoted wise watershed Jerry Franklin Term Ecological Research Program, tal credibility," said Paul Ketcham, trying to figure out how to make a $10 million program that conducts management for a long time. It is staggered-setting clear-cuts work," conservation director of the Port- gratifying to finally have a president ecological studies throughout North land Audubon Society. he said. "Were in the same place America. who doesnt run scared from it." now with ecosystem management. 77 "There are loopholes large enough Frank said the shift in federal We know what we have been doing Since 1991, Franklin has been a to drive a log truck through," said procedure to comprehensive manage- key player in efforts to resolve the Bob Freimark, The Wilderness So- isnt working very well. We cant be clear-cutting and plantation man- Northwests tree plantations — try- ment will take a lot of coordination sure the new system will, either." Northwest forest conflict. He served cietys regional director. "What we agement. Franklin chose another ing to make them more like natural on the "Gang of Four" panel (the need is a legally and scientifically vi- and good scientific study to succeed. Yet Clintons forest plan, unveiled "But the longer we wait to approach way: He began studying the virtual- forests by thinning young trees, Scientific Panel on Late Succession- able plan." Thursday, embraces Franklins the- ly untapped field of old-growth for- planting a variety of tree species wise management in this way, the al Forest Ecosystems) that devel- Environmentalists said the option ories and those of landscape ecolog- est ecology. and creating small openings. oped a range of forest management harder and more expensive it will ists in a number of ways: Clinton selected fails to provide for be," he said. In the early 1970s, a National Sci- Yet by the late 1980s, Franklin still options for Congress. He took part "inviolate" reserves of old-growth While the plan may not be It looks at the broad landscape, ence Foundation project provided was among only a handful of forest in Clintons April 2 Northwest For- that are off-limits to all logging and enough to protect salmon runs, it is creating reserves that encompass funding for the first in-depth study scientists promoting the ideas that est Conference. development. Timber thinning and probably a good sign that both envi- large portions of key watersheds. of the old-growth Douglas fir ecosys- came to be known as "new forest- And he served on the White House salvage would be allowed through- ronmentalists and the timber industry It designates 10 large forested tem. Franklin led that project. Using ry." Ecosystem Management Assessment out the area covered by the plan. are criticizing it, Frank said. tracts covering 457,000 acres as the Forest Services H.J. Andrews Then, in 1989, the first in a series Team, where he took the lead in de- Kerr said that environmentalists "At least its a clear indication "adaptive management areas" for Experimental Forest near Blue of federal court injunctions blocked signing Option 9. would have preferred to end all old- that this president seeks balance, experimental forestry and commu- River as a laboratory, he designed new timber sales across the North- Franklin has been arguing for growth logging along with an exec- and wont be bought," he said. nity-based forest planning. quixotic research projects —logging west — and Forest Service officials years that drawing lines in the for- utive order banning U.S. log exports., operations that left messy snags and "For the past 20 years, harvest It allows thinning of trees up to in Washington, D.C., suddenly be- est is not the way to protect ecosys- Critics said the plan doesnt: piles of slash behind, and experi- gan paying attention. tems because there simply isnt levels have been pushed beyond sus- 80 years old and salvage sales in ments that measured how fast fallen Prohibit future timber harvests tainable yield to meet growing wood stands of any age within old-growth To the Forest Service and to poli- enough intact old growth left to do in roadless areas. logs decay when left on the forest ticians, "new forestry" has obvious the job. demands. In doing so, this generation reserves. This element of the plan, floor (very slowly). Protect salmon and other spec- has been stealing resources from its controversial among environmental- appeal. Its goal is ecological, but it "We have to integrate the protec- ies. children and shamefully ignoring the ists, is designed to make younger After the eruption of Mount St. also recognizes societys need for tion of biological diversity onto the Helens in 1980, Franklin studied the Apply to forests in Eastern Ore- economic and cultural needs of the stands more diverse and appealing forest products. It appears to pro- lands we use," he says. gon and Washington. future," Frank said. to wildlife, while also providing swift return of plants and animals to vide a middle ground. Yet most environmentalists and the blast zone. There, he made a dis- On the plus side, environmental- — The Oregonian some timber for Northwest mills. In 1990, the Forest Service un- most timber industry groups have ists said that they supported Clin- covery that seemed profound: The veiled "Shasta Costa," a much- shunned "new forestry" and no one And it requires varying levels of biological legacy natures fury had tons vow to ask Congress to elimi- "new forestry" — retention of snags, touted experiment in Southwest knows for sure whether the idea will nate a tax subsidy for timber left behind in the soil, from seeds to Oregons Siskiyou Mountains that fulfill its promise. In fact, the Forest fallen logs and small patches of live burrowing gophers, had hastened companies that export raw logs. The trees — on the land between the re- proposed to take timber from a road- Service is about to embark on its move is intended to discourage ex- regeneration. less area by logging lightly — using i serves, land known as the "forest first comprehensive test of the con- ports and increase supplies avail- I have no doubt that in the In the fireweed seedlings poking small patch cuts, thinning sales and cept, a long-term experiment with closet, theyre popping matrix." able to domestic sawmills and wood through the charred earth, Franklin helicopter tree removal. new logging patterns that will occur products firms. champagne corks and shouting Clintons plan represents an saw implications for healing land on Oregons Umpqua National For- abrupt shift from the pattern of That plan, the flagship of the For- Leaders of the Pacific Rivers to high heaven. 9! scarred by clear-cutting. What if a est Services short-lived New Per- est and Washingtons Gifford Pinch- 40-acre clear-cuts and untouched biological legacy could be left on the Council praised Clintons candor spectives Program, fell apart when ot National Forest beginning next and his support linking forest man- Jim Geisinger, wilderness areas that fragments the land after logging to provide habitat year. forests of the Cascades, Olympics, its original backers left the Siskiyou agement to watershed protection. president, Northwest Forestry for cavity-nesting birds, small mam- National Forest, timber companies As many as 64 sites, each one at Association, Siskiyous and Coast Range. mals, salamanders and insects? "Weve got someone at the top of realized they would get less timber least 50 acres in size, will be logged our government finally telling the on what he thinks is the real While no single person can take Instead of removing all the trees, under the plan, and environmental- using a range of techniques, from public the truth," said Bob Doppelt, reaction of environmentalists credit for the changes that have burning the slash and replacing the ists learned that logging in Shasta clear-cutting to retaining 80 percent the councils executive director. swept the forestry profession in re- complex natural forest with a plan- Costa might damage fragile coastal of the trees. Birds, small mammals if Were threading the needle. cent years, Franklin has been cat- "Its a very, very new day for land tation monoculture, he proposed fisheries. and other species will be counted management and water manage- Theres not a lot of decision space alyst, lightning rod and midwife to leaving large live trees, dead snags But the concept captured the at- before logging and over time. the new forest ethic. ment, not just in this area but na- here. If anybody looks at this and fallen logs. tention of foresters throughout the "All over the region, there have tionwide." objectively, you come to the Born in Waldport and reared in Instead of continuing to lay out region — on federal, state, private been experiments, but there has Environmental leaders had espe- conclusion this is the best plan Camas, Wash., the young Franklin 40-acre clear-cuts in a vast mosaic, and tribal land. Suddenly, Jerry been no systematic approach," cially harsh words for much of the possible. These are not a lot of ("Forest" is indeed his middle name) he said, forest managers should be- Franklin was in great demand. Franklin said. "Given the scale of Northwest congressional delegation environmental radicals. 97 felt drawn to the old-growth forests gin considering how logging affects Over the past three years Frank- change thats occurring, it seemed to for its failure to fight for wilderness during camping trips to the Gifford the broad landscape — wildlife spec- lin has worked with Plum Creek us that we really do need to do protection. House Speaker Tom Fo- Jay Zeigler, Pinchot National Forest. ies that need forest coverto migrate, Timber Co. and Weyerhaeuser Co. things on a large scale, systematical- ley, D-Wash., drew the most fire for Department of Interior spokesman The son of a pulp mill worker, he and salmon streams that fill with on "new forestry" experiments in ly. advocating higher timber harvests enrolled in Oregon State Universi, .silk-after-road-building and logging. Western Washington. He has as- Its as much an investment in the than Clinton proposes and for sug- tys School of Forestry, where he He also proposed experimenting sisted the Yakima Nation in devel- future as in anything thats going on gesting that the Endangered Species was indoctrinated in the science of with "restoration forestry" on the oping environmentally sensitive- t for- now." Act be amended. , ,