Jeff Hickman and other anglers are attending the Board of Forestry meeting in Silverton today — 8am to 12pm. The Board is trying redefine “Greatest Permanent Value” of our state forests as maximum timber, mudslides and decimated rivers.
Hickman is taking it to these river-raping bureaucrats though. From the Oregonian’s Matthew Preusch:
Jeff Hickman, an angler and advocate with the Sierra Club, challenged Marvin Brown, the state forester, on a statement he made in June that recreation in the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests generated about $800,000 in revenue.
Hickman cited a study funded by Travel Oregon that found fishing, hunting and other activities in the forests proved tens of millions of dollars in economic benefit for Tillamook and Clatsop counties.
Brown responded by saying that he had erred back in June.
“I do stand corrected on the recreation figure,” Brown said. “I sometimes get things wrong; I got that wrong.”
Stay tuned for the final outcome.
