- Learn why Federal Agencies disapproved Oregon’s coastal nonpoint source water pollution control program due to weaknesses in Oregon’s Forest Practices Rules and other issues: Oregon Coastal Nonpoint Program disapproved by EPA/NOAA
- Learn why conservation groups believe Oregon’s forestry rules are NOT adequate to meet the Coastal Zone Management Act:
- Northwest Environmental Advocates’ Comments on Oregon’s water pollution control in the coastal zone
- Expert Declaration by Chris Frissell on effects of logging on water quality finding Oregon’s forest practices rules on private lands are inadequate for temperature protection, large wood recruitment, erosion and sediment delivery.
- Paired Watershed/ BACI Research Studies: Cautionary Limits of Inference and Interpretation
- For more information about the interplay between the cold water quality standard and existing TMDLs, read NEA’s letter to the EPA and NOAA, and its attached memo to the Oregon Department of Forestry. (See also OSPC member Northwest Environmental Advocates’ memo to the Oregon Department of Forestry).
- Learn why Oregon believes its forestry rules are adequate to meet the Coastal Zone Management Act: Oregon Perspective on Logging Rules under Federal Coastal Zone Law
- In this memorandum, aquatic ecologist Chris Frissell refutes industry claims about the three “Paired Watershed Studies” in western Oregon, explaining that these studies do not provide sound reasons to delay or cease the current rule making process to improve stream buffers on small and medium fish-bearing streams. This report follows up and expands on Dr. Frissell’s presentation to the Board of Forestry at the June 23, 2014 Riparian Rules Workshop. Dr. Frissell’s report is titled, The Western Oregon Paired Watershed Studies: Initial Results, Limitations and Policy Implications
- Many of the above documents discuss Oregon Forest Practices Rules before the July 2017 new rules, but continue to be relevant because the added protections of the 2017 rules were so minimal.
