2016-210-Minutes for Meeting May 03,2016 Recorded 6/3/2016DESCHUTES COUNTY OFFICIAL RECORDS CJ 2016.210
NANCY BLANKENSHIP, COUNTY CLERK0312016 02;30 33 PM
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Board of County Commissioners
Department Update Meeting: County Forester
May 3, 2016
Deschutes Services Building and Lane Knolls Neighborhood
Attendees:
Commissioners Anthony DeBone and Alan Unger; County Forester Ed Keith;
County Administrator Tom Anderson; Whitney Hale, Communications; and Erik
Kropp, Deputy County Administrator.
County Forester Update
County Forester Ed Keith provided a tour of a recently completed FEMA -funded
wildfire fuel reduction project at the Lane Knolls neighborhood, east of Bend.
Commissioner DeBone asked about the strategies used for the project. Mr. Keith
explained how fuels reduction included the removal and trimming of bitter -brush,
removal of select juniper trees, and the trimming of tree branches. In response to a
question from Commissioner Unger, Mr. Keith highlighted the cooperation from
the neighborhood and work the neighbors put in as part of the "sweat equity"
model (landowners providing much of the labor associated with the project).
Mr. Keith showed the group areas that had been treated for fuel reduction as
compared to untreated areas.
Minutescompleted by:
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Erik Kropp, Deputy County Administrator
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Alan Unger, Chair
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Recording Secretary
Tammy Baney, Vp Chair
Anthony DeBone, DeBone, Commissioner