Pat Quinn talks About BLM Public Lands
Pat describes his work as the Conservation Chair of Umpqua Watersheds. He monitors public land projects and provides comments to BLM on behalf of the public. Pat talks about the new BLM management plan and how logging is not regulated. Pat describes recent studies that describe how the private industrial timber land that surrounds public BLM land degrade the BLM and degrade our watersheds in general. Industrial tree plantations are more prone to wildland fire as well as cause summer low flows in streams. Pat also talks about how private industrial timber corporations pay far lower taxes than they have historically, and far lower in Oregon than surrounding states. Pat ends with his words of wisdom on how to move forward to make watersheds better in the long run.