Manage the O&C lands for permanent timber production
What the document says“the new Administration must immediately fulfill its responsibilities and manage the O&C lands for “permanent forest production””
The O&C lands are Oregon forest lands governed by a 1937 statute requiring management for permanent forest production, with timber to be sold, cut and removed. The chapter says doing so would fulfill the congressional mandate, provide employment in rural Oregon and reduce the effects of wildfires.
What the document actually says“the new Administration must immediately fulfill its responsibilities and manage the O&C lands for “permanent forest production””
Manage these Oregon forests for timber. That is what the law says.
Some Oregon forests are run under an old law. It says the timber should be cut and sold. The book says that is not happening now.
Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
2025-03-01 · 90 FR 11365
EO 14225 directs the Interior and Agriculture Secretaries to issue guidance expanding timber production, to submit a plan setting the annual volume to be offered for sale from BLM and Forest Service lands over four years, and to adopt categorical exclusions for thinning and salvage. The O&C lands are BLM land in western Oregon, so they fall inside that direction. The order never mentions the O&C lands, the 1937 statute or permanent forest production, and it sets a sale target across all federal lands rather than managing those lands under the mandate the proposal invokes.
The order tells two departments to raise how much timber is sold. It sets a four year plan for sales on federal land. The Oregon lands the chapter names fall inside that. But the order never names them, nor the 1937 law the chapter leans on.
1 agency rule
- Exercise of Time-Limited Authority To Increase the Fiscal Year 2026 Numerical Limitation for the H-2B Temporary Nonagricultural Worker ProgramHomeland Security Department, Labor Department, Employment and Training Administration · February 3, 2026
Each of these names the order above in its own summary, preamble or filing. That is a fact about the document, not a finding that it carries out this proposal: it is one step further away than the order is, and what it does about the proposal is a reading nobody has made here.