There also are a number of smaller forest tracts, scattered mostly in western Oregon’s Coast Range. Nine ODF districts manage state-owned forests.
All state forest lands are actively managed under adopted forest management plans to provide economic, environmental, and social benefits to Oregonians. Most of the revenue from timber sales goes to county governments and local public districts, and from Common School Forest Lands to benefit schools throughout the state.
Read more about the history and legal mandates for the state forests, and the laws and administrative rules that dictate how state forests are managed.
About half of Oregon's 61 million acre land base is forestlands. State-owned forestlands represent about three percent of Oregon’s forest ownership. The largest owner of forestland in Oregon is the federal government with 59 percent. Private ownership accounts for 35 percent.
The Oregon Department of Forestry relies on two advisory committees to provide informed input about issues facing management of state forests.
The Forest Trust Land Advisory Committee is an advisory group of elected County Commissioners mandated by statute that advise the Oregon Board of Forestry and Department of Forestry on matters related to state forestland managed by ODF. Counties depend on revenue generated from management activities on these lands. The committee meets about six times per year. Time is set aside at each meeting for public comment.
The State Forests Advisory Committee represents diverse interests and provides input to the department and the board on state-managed forestland in northwest Oregon. Committee membership includes environmental, recreational and timber industry groups, revenue-receiving counties, as well as general public members not affiliated to a specific interest group. The committee meets four to five times per year with time scheduled at each meeting for public comment.
Want to help Oregon's state forests and be out amongst the trees? ODF welcomes the assistance of volunteers.
Several weeks following the conclusion of the Fiscal Year on June 30th, Oregon Department of Forestry staff provide a report on the acheivements, performance measures and economic outputs of state forest land to the 15 Oregon counties that benefit from Board of Forestry lands, and report to the State Land Board on the performance of Common School Lands that are managed by ODF through agreement with the Department of State Lands.
These annual reports provide many detailed statistics regarding the performance of state-owned forests and revenues transferred back to local communities, either to general government or to schools.
Report to the Council of Forest Trust Land Counties
