Forest Management

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diversity would
be best served by using a broader range of management tools. Those would
include harvesting on federal land - not simply thinning - and increasing the
commitment to old-growth attributes on private forest land through
techniques such as retaining large trees and snags. As long as federal lands
are substantially committed to providing late successional habitat, private
forest land can be substantially committed to younger, intensively managed
stands, provided critical habitat characteristics are available.
The federal lands make up more than 50% to 60% of the forests in
Oregon(3). Because timber harvest in now dramatically reduced on federal
lands, those lands represent a sizable, well distributed pool of both old-growth
forests and forests that could become old-growth, providing habitat to those
species associated with forests with old-growth characteristics. While a large
portion of federal land is committed to sustaining species that need
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