{"id":24267,"date":"2026-03-26T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=24267"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T20:30:31","slug":"oregon-lawmakers-call-on-trump-administration-to-extend-public-comment-period-for-revised-western-oregon-forest-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/oregon-lawmakers-call-on-trump-administration-to-extend-public-comment-period-for-revised-western-oregon-forest-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Lawmakers Call on Trump Administration to Extend Public Comment Period for Revised Western Oregon Forest Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>New BLM proposal would open up millions of acres of Western Oregon forests to new commercial timber production<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Andrea Salinas, Janelle Bynum and Maxine Dexter this week called on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to extend the public comment period for its revised Western Oregon Resource Management Plans (RMPs), which would open up forests in Western Oregon to new commercial timber harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe urge the BLM to take a more robust and proactive approach to public involvement to ensure all proposed plans meet the needs of the public and avoid dividing communities that have long demonstrated the ability to find common ground on challenging issues when presented the opportunity,\u201d the members of Oregon\u2019s congressional delegation wrote in their letter to Kim Prill, the BLM\u2019s Oregon-Washington Acting State Director. \u201cThere is a divide between what is required legally and what is required to maintain and grow the social license to work effectively in our federal forests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Western Oregon Resource Management Plan controls over 2.4 million acres of forests across 17 counties in Oregon. In February, the Trump administration announced its intent to move forward with a revised plan that would return to 1960s timber harvest levels across the landscape, more than 10 times current average harvest levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s public comment period for the revised plan closed on March 23. During that period, the administration did not hold any public meetings on its new proposal. In their letter, the lawmakers requested the comment period be <strong>reopened for another 60 days<\/strong>&nbsp;to ensure members of the community could make their voices heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comprehensive list of areas that could be opened up for new timber harvest under the revised plan is <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2026\/02\/19\/2026-03290\/notice-of-intent-to-revise-resource-management-plans-for-northwestern-and-coastal-oregon-and__;!!BSgrhSFG!Hm3Ad03_8oFRxmIZbP2cZDPTc9oLHYh8h7-HY7NvdaPrHzhfbXtBV5mjN_wCHt9ruwE0v8GceCZx2kIrx2Kej9dXN5OucoW2tOIB$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full letter to the BLM is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyden.senate.gov\/download\/blm-rmp-scoping-letter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aqu\u00ed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New BLM proposal would open up millions of acres of Western Oregon forests to new commercial timber production Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 U.S. Senators Ron Wyden, Jeff Merkley, and U.S. Representatives Suzanne Bonamici, Val Hoyle, Andrea Salinas, Janelle Bynum and Maxine Dexter this week called on the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to extend the public comment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[118,36],"class_list":["post-24267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-delivering-for-oregon","tag-natural-resources-and-rural-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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