The Saga of the Elliott Forest: 2024

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INDEXED. This is a 2-hour interview about Elliott State Forest politics and lawsuits with Dr. Bob Zybach by Rob Taylor for the Coos County Rob Taylor Report podcast, March 11, 2024. Topics include the Endangered Species Act, local jobs, wildlife habitat, wildfire history, and environmental activists. Indexing is used to quickly locate key topics and visuals, including maps, historical photos, and graphs.

0:00 Rob Taylor Introduction & 3H Tree Service

7:30 Bob Zybach Introduction
9:20 Interview Begins: Old-Growth Definitions
10:40 Prescribed Burning vs. Clearcuts
16:00 Old-Growth: discussion

18:35 Market Age: 40-year target
20:00 Plantations vs. Legal Habitat & Wildfire Risk

24:00 Slide 1: Elliott Stream & Fire History
26:00 Environmentalists vs. Rural Jobs
28:00 Clearcuts & Aesthetics
32:00 Urban Development: Healthy Forests = Healthy People

33:55 Slide 2: Log Truck, Mukumoto & ODF HCPs
36:30 HCPs & ONRI: Modeling & Science

43:00 Slide 3: OASTL: Humans & Nature
45:00 Elliott History & Common School Fund 

49:50 Slide 4: SB 1546 ORWW Boondoggle
52:00 Book Plug & Giesy-Ray Story

56:00 Slide 5: Elliott Forest Advisory Committee
57:30 Counties Should Manage the Elliott after ODF Failure 

1:00:30 Slide 6: Phillips' 1987 Elliott Fire Map
1:02:40 Global Warming & Climate Change
1:03:50 Annisazi & Cannibalism &Tsunamis
1:11:55 Phillips Map of the "Big Burn

1:13:50 Slide 7: Elkhorn 1890 Wildlife Habitat
1:20:00 Computer Predictive Models & Historical Documentation

1:22:40 Slide 8: Viral 2018 Daily Caller "Firebombs" Meme

1:23:05 Slide 9: Elliott 1950-2022 HCP Chart

1:25:50 Slide 10: Phillips-Zybach Elliott Age Classes Bar Chart
1:26:35 Elliott Old-Growth & Plantations & Reforestation Planning

1:30:50 Sponsorship Break: Tom & Gig's Automotive
1:32:25 Tim Re: Spotted Owls vs. Barred Owls & Jobs
1:35:40 Tim: Forest Management Budget & Environmentalists
1:37:00 Tim: Fisherman & Loggers = Local Economy
1:41:00 Rob Re: Giesy Plan & Local Politicians

1:46:05 Slide 11: Elliott Timber Volume Graph w/2100 Projections
1:49:45 Nick Smith & "Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities"

1:52:40 Slide 12: Elliott Forest Logging Protesters
154:00 Protester Demographics vs. Paul Bunyan
1:55:30 Elliott Lawsuit w/Portland Audubon & Bob Sallinger

1:57:55 Local Jobs & OASTL Lawsuit vs. Migrant Laborers
2:00:30 Lawsuit Status & Politics
2:02:20 OASTL & ORWW Plugs

2:04:30 Zybach Amazon Books Plugs
2:08:30 End of Interview

2:08:50 Beginning of Political Discussion w/Diane Rich