HomeMy WebLinkAbout070522as01 JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Mark McCauley, County Administrator
FROM: Heidi Eisenhour, Commissioner
DATE: July 5, 2022
SUBJECT: Forestry workshop with NNRG
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Since early April the BOCC has been studying implications and options of how state trust lands are managed
on our behalf by the Department of Natural Resources. On May 16 we held a workshop to look at impacts to
our Junior Taxing Districts of the Beaver Valley Sorts Timber Sale as well as management options including
reconveyance. On June 27 we held a further discussion to share with each other what we had learned over
the last month. One presentation/option we want to take a more in depth look at is the impact of adjusting
forest harvest rotation length on carbon storage in forests. We invited Seth Zuckerman to join us today after
seeing an earlier, more general presentation by him on this topic at a Timber 101 training organized by the
Washington Association of Counties in June.
ANALYSIS:
NNRG leads forestry projects focused on ecological forestry which shows landowners options other than
clearcutting for managing their forests. Specifically, over the past couple of months,the BOCC had
discussed how our forests in Jefferson County might retain as much carbon sequestration potential while
providing for the funding needs of our Junior Taxing Districts such as fire departments, schools and
libraries.
FISCAL IMPACT:
NA
RECOMMENDATION:
Listen, ask questions, learn.
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