The Oregon Global Warming Commission will meet on Friday, October 21 from 9am to noon in the following location:

2 World Trade Center, 25 SW Salmon Street, Portland, OR, 97204
Conference Room: Oregon Room, Mezzanine level

A draft agenda can be downloaded from this page. We will upload additional files related to the meeting as they become available. A recording of the meeting will be uploaded after the meeting.

Meetings of the Oregon Global Warming Commission (OGWC) are open to the public. Public comment is welcome during the designated period(s). A listen-only phone number is also available to listen in on meeting:  1-877-336-1831;  code: 872206.

Meeting Materials:

• Agenda
• Meeting Audio
• Memo on OGWC - Discussion Item 6
• Legislative Concept for Discussion Item 6
• UK Committee on Climate Change - Discussion Item 6
• Climate and Health Presentation
• Oregon DEQ GHG Inventory Update
• GHG Market Study Update
• OCCRI Presentation

The forest carbon task force of the Oregon Global Warming Commission will meet Thursday, October 6, 2016 in Salem. The public meeting will be held from 1 – 4 pm in the Santiam Room at the Oregon Department of Forestry, 2600 State St.

A listen-only call-in line will be available for those who cannot attend the meeting. Please call 1-877-336-1831, then use the access code 872206.

At the meeting, the Forest Carbon Task Force plans to review the discussion from their last meeting, discuss baseline historical data on carbon content of Oregon forests, and discuss possible future changes in forest carbon conditions.

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Additional documentation has been added below.  Please read the following disclaimer on these data from Jeremy Fried at USFS:

"These are provisional / draft estimates for the task force to use.  We are still working through some nuances on reversions and diversions, and site class changes (that throw acres in and out of timberland status based on different site tree results at different visits). As such, they are not final numbers and they have not been through any kind of external peer
review ­that is one motivation for publishing them in the literature, this is exactly what we are in the process of doing. THEN the numbers produced will be final. This data is being provided to the TF on an accelerated basis, which is why they are provisional/draft."

Meeting Materials:

• Meeting Audio
• Jeremy Fried Presentation
• FIA Estimates

The OGWC is reconvening a Subcommittee of stakeholders to discuss issues related to the carbon content of Oregon's forests. In part, the Subcommittee will be tasked with reviewing the recommendations made by the Forestry Technical Committee that was formed by the Commission in 2010 during the development of the Roadmap to 2020.  

The Subcommittee will also be asked to look at questions related to the natural carbon flux by forest type, the carbon flux under current conditions or other interventions, and how baseline data is affected by different management and harvest scenarios.  

The Subcommittee will be chaired by OGWC member Catherine Mater. A formal agenda for the meeting is not available but will be added to this site if applicable. 

Meeting location: 
Santiam Room
Bldg D
Oregon Dept Forestry
2600 State St., Salem OR

Meeting Materials:

• Meeting Audio