Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.

Digest: The Act tells the State Forester to manage state forests in a manner that keeps fuel load levels low.

What This Bill Does

• Digest: The Act tells the State Forester to manage state forests in a manner that keeps fuel load levels low.
• (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
• Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
• Relating to: Relating to low forest fuel load levels on state forestland.

Limits and Unknowns

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Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act tells the State Forester to manage state forests in a manner that keeps fuel load levels low. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Relating to: Relating to low forest fuel load levels on state forestland.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 639
Sponsored by Senator BONHAM (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act tells the State Forester to manage state forests in a manner that keeps fuel load
levels low. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.2).
Requires the State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low
forest fuel load levels.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to low forest fuel load levels on state forestland.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
In managing state forestlands as described in ORS 530.050, the State
Forester shall use active management designed to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load
levels on the forestlands in order to promote forest health values and the control of wildfire
risk.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
LC 3936