Board member wants to expand S. Ore. no-logging buffers

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A member of the Oregon Board of Forestry is pushing for the extension of streamside no-logging buffers in Jackson and Josephine counties.

The Medford Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2dIMMaE ) that the buffers would be similar to those already proposed for the rest of Western Oregon. They are meant to keep salmon streams cool.

Board member Cindy Deacon Williams of Medford tried to get the Siskiyou Region added to the proposals last year but it was voted down because data from the region wasn’t included in the report used to support buffer expansion. Williams, who is a consulting fisheries biologist, says she will ask to have existing data mined and hopes the issue will be addressed in the coming year.

Man streams in the Rogue River Basin are already considered too warm for salmon.

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Information from: Mail Tribune, http://www.mailtribune.com/