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C) { Deschutes County Board of Commissioners
1130 NW Harriman St., Bend, OR 97701-1947
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MINUTES OF DEPARTMENT UPDATE - COUNTY FORESTER
DESCHUTES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2005
Commissioners' Conference Room - Administration Building - 1300 NW Wall St.., Bend
Present were Commissioners Dennis R. Luke and Michael M. Daly. Also present
were Mike Maier, County Administrator; and Joe Studer, County Forester. No
representatives of the media were present.
A copy of the agenda is attached for reference. The meeting began at 1: 30 p. m.
A discussion took place regarding La Pine State Park and hazard fuel treatment
proposals.
No formal action was taken by the Board.
Being no further items discussed, the meeting ended at 1:40 p.m.
DATED this 14th Day of December 2005 for the Deschutes Countv Board of
Commissioners.
ATTEST:
Recording Secretary
Vic &l M. Daly, C missioner
Dennis R. Luke, ommissioner
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Bonnie Baker
From: Joe Stutler
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:28 PM
To: Dennis Luke; Mike Daly; Mike Maier; Bonnie Baker
Cc: Teresa Rozic
Subject: forestry update
For tomorrow's update the following topics will be covered:
• La Pine State Park and hazard fuel treatment
o BLM and State Parks are working together
o Salvage of Park Fire
o Updating an MOU between the agencies for vegetation management
o Completion of a 5-year fuels plan for the Park
o Small fire engine permanently stationed at the Park and staffed by
Park employees.
• Fuels accomplishments; buring this calendar year we will have treated
approximately 375 acres mainly in South County with an additional 125 to
be treated this winter, this will complete the New Neighborhood fuels
treatment.
• Pre-disaster mitigation grant is proceeding, it appears we'll have a FEMA
approved plan soon and Judith and I will be working on the grant
application which will be a joint effort with Crook County.
• National Fire Plan grant applications are also forthcoming, we will be
submitting several grants again both from Deschutes County and Project
Wildfire.
• Vulcan Power; met with the proponent/owner Steve Munson last week and
learned the following:
o Vulcan Power and Silvan Power are the same with the same owner.
o Have a option to buy property in La Pine for a 24 megawatt bio-
mass power plant
o Company is negotiating a power contract BUT DO NOT HAVE IN
HAND. We were told that we could expect a signed contract with
60-90 days.
o To support a 24-megawatt plant will require 210,000 dry tons of
biomass per year, which would cover about 21,000 acres.
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o The company is looking for this all to come from federal lands which
are within a 50-mile radius of La Pine.
o The company is looking for a 10-year stewardship contract with the
federal agencies and wants that contract to be in effect within 6
months or 12 months at the maximum.
o The company wants the fed's to fund this entirely out of existing
budgets, using HFRA authorities.
o The agencies represented (FS and BLM) were not optimistic that a
stewardship contract could be pulled together in that short time
frame for 21,000 acres for 10 years.
o That since the biomass is proposed to come entirely from federal
lands, this is not consistent with Community Fire Plans, thus
Deschutes County will need to see more coming off private lands to
meet our needs.
Joe Stutler
Forestry Specialist
Deschutes County
(541) 322-7117 office
(541) 388-2719 fax
61150 SE 27th St.
Bend, OR 97702
joest@co.deschutes.or.us
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