Gordon Marvin talks about the 1996 Hubbard Creek Landslide.
In this conversation with Gordon Marvin we talk about a landslide that ripped through his community, Stump Acres, near Umpqua Oregon in 1996. It came out of a 9-year-old clearcut above their property, and killed 4 people, including Gordon’s wife, Sharon Marvin, and his two friends Rick and Susan Moon. I was unsuccessful in getting someone from the Oregon Department of Forestry to talk to us about how logging rules changed as a result of this slide, to now include a (small) public safety component.
Gordon and I cover some additional private-land logging issues, including aerial spray rules. Public notice for aerial spraying has recently been strengthened. You can read about that here: https://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/2020/02/10/what-is-the-new-oregon-timber-pact/?emci=b3c4dbbc-fcb7-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=or listen to an interview with Ralph Bloomers who talks about it on this show earlier this year. We also talk about the FERNS reporting system, where the public can sign up to receive all logging notices in places important to them, such as their home.FERNS can be accessed here. https://ferns.odf.oregon.gov/E-Notification/