New Board of Forestry member faces concerns over visit to timber harvest sites

One of the Oregon Board of Forestry’s newest members faced concerns this week over a June trip to potential state timber harvest sites in Clatsop County at the invitation of an environmental nonprofit.

Earlier this year, two proposed clearcuts in the 2025 annual operations plan for the Department of Forestry’s Astoria District Office — Mothball Hill and Davis Ridge — drew unprecedented local pushback from neighbors and organizers with North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection, who were frustrated by what they described as a lack of notice and transparency.