Ballot Measure 64: Clearcutting Ban

Authors

City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.)

Publication Date

10-2-1998

Document Type

Report

Subjects

Urban policy -- Oregon -- Portland -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Politics and government -- Periodicals, Portland (Or.) -- Social conditions -- Periodicals

Notes

Prohibits many present timber harvest practices, chemical herbicides, pesticides in forest. Limits size of trees that can be harvested. Covers private, state, federal forest lands. Imposes new harvest regulations including federal regulation by classifying forest land waters as "navigable." State Board of Forestry must adopt new timber harvest methods and regulations to meet new requirements. Requires state to submit new forest land water quality plan to federal Environmental Protection Agency, seek approval before permitting logging. Authorizes citizens suits to enforce new harvest restrictions or other provisions of measure.

Published in City Club of Portland Bulletin VOL. 80, No. 18

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13892

Recommended Citation

City Club of Portland (Portland, Or.), "Ballot Measure 64: Clearcutting Ban" (1998). City Club of Portland. 490.
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/13892