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TO: OFIC Board of Directors

CC: OFRI Board of Directors
Duncan Wyse, Oregon Business Council
Paul Barnum, OFRI
FROM: Mike Cloughesy
DATE: Dec. 1, 2010
SUBJECT: Forestry and Wood Products Cluster Update

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second-most forested state, Oregon is a national and international leader in softwood lumber production,
plywood production, forestry productivity, timber harvest, logging, forestry education and wildland
firefighting. In 2009, more than 2,200 firms directly employed 47,722 people who earned average annual
salaries of nearly $44,000 ± about eight percent higher than the statewide average for wage-earners.
Thousands more people are employed indirectly as a result of cluster activity.

The Forestry and Wood Products Cluster is highly organized and well-established. Firms within the
cluster are known for their collaboration in state and their competitiveness EH\RQGWKHVWDWH¶VERUGHUV. The
future success of the cluster is dependent on external variables, many of which are not within 2UHJRQ¶V
direct control. These include national housing starts, availability of mortgage capital, competition from
non-wood materials, and the impact of federal legislation and regulations. Current cluster health is poor,
with the 2009 Oregon timber harvest the lowest since 1941, lumber prices the lowest ever (in real
dollars), and a continuing decline in the number of wood products mills and overall employment.

$1RYHPEHUVXUYH\E\WKH2UHJRQ)RUHVW5HVRXUFHV,QVWLWXWHDLGHGWKHFOXVWHU¶VLGHQWLILFDWion of
key policy and action initiatives the cluster should focus on in 2011-12. Fifteen organizations and
individuals responded to the survey, and the cluster approved its recommendations on Dec. 1, 2010.

Number O ne O regon Business Plan Policy Initiative

Simplify and streamline regulations and permitting processes. Prevent new regulations and processes that
add to the cost and difficulty of doing business.

Firms within the cluster are concerned about the impact of recent court decisions and federal agency
proposals. Specifically, these include:

x Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) permit is required for stormwater runoff from logging roads. Road-building on private
and state land is highly regulated and has been much improved over the past two decades as a
result of new science to protect water quality and aquatic habitat. Requiring forest landowners to
obtain NPDE S permits for road-building will create extra costs.

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 x U.S. District Court settlement that requires the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to
develop stricter rules to protect streamside trees, prevent landslides in high-risk areas and halt
erosion and runoff from logging roaGVLQ2UHJRQ¶V&RDVW5DQJH This settlement pits one state
agency, D E Q, against another, the Department of Forestry. Historically, the Board of Forestry
has set forest protection rules.
x U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Greenhouse Gas Tailoring Rule through Best
Available Control Technology (BACT), which regulates biomass, including woody biomass, like
carbon-intensive fossil fuels. Until EPA takes a clear position on how it will recognize the carbon
benefits of biomass energy, biomass will continue to be held in li mbo and investment in biomass
energy will continue to stagnate.
x (3$¶VSURSRVHGERLOHU0$&7UXOH± the maximum achievable control technology rule for
commercial, industrial and institutional boilers and process heaters. Over 100 members of
Congress signed a letter to EPA Administrator Jackson to tell her that the proposed Boiler MACT
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potential i mpact of pending Clean Air Act regulations could be unsustainable for U.S.
manufacturing and the high-SD\LQJMREVLWSURYLGHV´
x The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2010 Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted
Owl, out for public comment until Dec. 15, which posits that habitat protection on public land
may not be sufficient and that protection may also be required on private lands. Uncertainty in the
regulatory environment makes business planning and capital allocation extremely difficult.

Number O ne Cluster-Specific Action Initiative

As its number one action initiative, the Forestry and Wood Products Cluster named restoring Oregon
federal forests to historic standards of forest health and the related use of woody biomass from these
forests for energy. Specifically, the cluster calls for the following:
x Support implementation of the recommendations of the Federal Forestlands Advisory Committee
to encourage active management of federal forests, especially by thinning and reducing fuels on
dry-side forests and supporting collaborative groups.
x Widely communicate Oregon forest health and forest cluster and rural community economic
vitality as priorities of the Governor and the State of Oregon.
x Explore a role for the State of Oregon to directly participate in addressing federal/private forest
interface issues with respect to fires, insects and diseases.
x Promote state and federal laws and policies which promote economic incentives and technical
assistance and reduce disincentives for biomass energy industry development.
x Promote the development of market opportunities and removal of barriers for wood products,
non-timber forest products and ecosystem services. This could include the implementation of an
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Pages 3-15 are the full document submitted to the Oregon Business Plan.

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 2010 O regon Business Plan C luster Update Form
Part I: General Information

ƒ Cluster Name: Forestry and Wood Products

ƒ &OXVWHU)DFLOLWDWRUV¶RU&RRUGLQDWRUV¶1DPHV/ Contact Information:

Mike Cloughesy
Oregon Forest Resources Institute
971-673-2955
cloughesy@ofri.org

ƒ Industry, including Components or Subsets

o Forestry
o Wood Products

ƒ Number of Companies Involved in Cluster

o 2,284 companies in cluster

ƒ Primary Organizations and Companies Involved in the Cluster:

o M ajor C luster Companies

ƒ Weyerhaeuser ƒ Plum Creek Timber
ƒ Forest Capital Partners ƒ Jeld-Wen
ƒ Stimson Lumber ƒ Ochoco Lumber
ƒ Roseburg Forest Products ƒ InterFor Pacific
ƒ Hampton Affiliates ƒ Georgia-Pacific
ƒ Campbell Group ƒ Longview Timber
ƒ Collins Companies ƒ Boise Cascade

o M ajor C luster Associations

ƒ Oregon Forest Industries Council (www.ofic.com)
ƒ Oregon Small Woodlands Association (www.oswa.org)
ƒ Associated Oregon Loggers (www.oregonloggers.org)
ƒ Portland Wholesale Lumber Association
(www.portlandwholesalelumberassociation.org)
ƒ American Forest Resources Council (www.amforest.org)

o C luster E ducational Resources

ƒ OSU College of Forestry (www.cof.oregonstate.edu)
ƒ Oregon Wood Innovation Center (owic.oregonstate.edu)
ƒ Institute of Natural Resources (www.inr.oregonstate.edu)
ƒ Oregon BEST (oregonbest.org)

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 o Nonprofit O rganizations
ƒ Sustainable Northwest (www.sustainablenorthwest.org)
ƒ Defenders of Wildlife (www.defenders.org)
ƒ The Nature Conservancy (www.nature.org/oregon)

o C luster State Agencies

ƒ Oregon Dept of Forestry (http://egov.oregon.gov/ODF/index.shtml)
ƒ Oregon Business Development (www.oregon4biz.com)
ƒ Oregon Dept of Energy (www.oregon.gov/ENERGY/index.shtml)
ƒ Oregon Forest Resources Institute (Oregonforests.org)

ƒ Relevant Website Addresses: See above

ƒ Date of Cluster Launch/ First Meeting

o Dr. John McLoughlin built the first sawmill in Oregon in 1832 at Willamette Falls

o Oregon State University began offering Forestry degrees in 1906

o Oregon Department of Forestry was founded in 1911

o Oregon Small Woodlands Association was formed in 1960

o Oregon Forest Industries Council was formed in the 1970s

o Oregon Forest Resources Institute was formed in 1991

o Oregon Forest Cluster Economic Development Core Team was formed in 2006

ƒ Geographic Location of Cluster/ Area of Greatest Industry Concentration within Oregon

o Statewide ± greatest concentration on I-5 Corridor

ƒ Competitor Regions Nationally & Internationally

o Oregon is a national and international leader in:

ƒ Softwood lumber production
ƒ Plywood production
ƒ Forestry productivity
ƒ Timber harvest
ƒ Logging
ƒ Forestry education
ƒ Wildland firefighting

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ƒ Economic Impact of Cluster (Sales, Oregon Employment/ Employment Growth, Average
Wage/ Wage Growth, Multiplier Effects, etc.)

Forestry and Wood Products ± Oregon Covered Employment - 2009

Sub C luster Total Total A verage
F irms Jobs Pay
Wood Products Subtotal 1,238 34,744 $44,755

Forestry Subtotal 1,046 12,978 $41,802

Cluster Total 2,284 47,722 $43,952

ƒ Level of Cluster Organization Development (i.e. just getting organized, loosely

organized, well-established, etc.)
o Highly organized, well-established cluster

ƒ Organizational Structure (ie. Informal meetings, trade association, Google Group, etc.)
o Formal meetings of associations and cluster working group

ƒ Description of Participants (CEOs, Government Affairs executives, job seekers, etc.)

o Various executives and mid- to upper-managers

ƒ Meeting Frequency
o Quarterly meetings of various cluster groups

ƒ Level of Cooperation within Industry (i.e. Highly Competitive, Collaborative, etc.)

o Collaborative within Oregon ± Competitive with the world

ƒ Metrics Used to Evaluate Cluster Health (i.e. comparison with same industry in other
states, performance over time, etc.)
o Lumber and plywood output ± Oregon is number one state in U.S.
o Timber harvest, employment, profits, lumber and plywood output over time
o Location quotient (LQ) as a measure of comparative advantage ±
ƒ Wood Product LQ = 5.6
ƒ Forestry Services LQ = 3.6
ƒ Overall Cluster LQ = 2.6

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ƒ Recent/ Notable Industry Trends:

o 2009 Oregon timber harvest was the lowest since 1941
o 2010 lumber prices (in real dollars) are the lowest they have ever been
o In 2010 there are only 106 open wood products mills, a 74% reduction since 1980
when there were 405 mills

ƒ Is there any other information that we should know about your cluster?
o We are not dinosaurs ± modern forestry and wood products is a high-technology,
high-skill business
o We are survivors and we are here to stay

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7KHDELOLW\RI2UHJRQ¶VWUDGHG-sector industries to produce

economic prosperity and quality jobs for Oregonians calls
for creating an economic climate with the right mix of
education and workforce capabilities, an attractive quality
of life, reasonable business costs, and an innovative,
entrepreneurial spirit statewide. We call these ingredients
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economic assets and liabilities, and potential strategies for
our economic future. A fifth P, public finance, is also vital
to our long-term success. We must find a way to fund
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Please use the diagram below to tell us how Oregon rates in each of the Four Ps.
(5 = highest performance, 0 = lowest performance)
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x Productivity: heavy regulatory and tax burdens

In which of the area listed above is Oregon strongest? Weakest?

x Strongest: Recreation & Environmental Quality
x W eakest: Regulatory Environment, Personal Taxes & Resource Utilization

Are there any additional areas that we need to address?

Additional Comments or Explanations:
x Productivity in the forest sector on an international basis is a challenge. Available
resources, regulatory certainty, infrastructure and taxes all limit competitive advantage on
a world stage.
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economic problems must be addressed.
x There needs to be a commitment to Oregon being open for business.

Note: The numbers shown in the diagram represent actual averages of responses received from
cluster participants.

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Part I I I: O BP Core Initiatives

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actions² that help achieve the conditions necessary for traded sector businesses to thrive. For more information or details about the
Oregon Business Plan initiatives, please visit www.oregonbusinessplan.org.

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A dopt a long-term budgeting process that 2.6 The biennial budget would still be a mess.
helps policyma kers prioritize expenditures
and identify ways to deliver quality services
at a lower cost.

Reform the tax system to improve the
stability of revenues and reduce reliance on
the income tax.
Strengthen Prek-12 education
Strengthen university and community
college education
3.2 There needs to be better taxing that captures fees
or taxes from tourists or other visitors. People
would favor a limited sales tax if it offset income
taxes. Voters are afraid the state would increase
the income tax later after getting a sales tax
through ± need trust from voters on any change.
3.0 Improve efficiency and outcome = lower costs
but improve performance ± it must be done.
3.2 All tuition funds should be received and retained
by the individual institution ± should never go to
GF for redistribution.
+HOS³VNLOO-XS´WKHLQFXPEHQWH[LVWLQJ 3.2 K-12 program needs to recognize that not all kids
wor kforce. are interested in college and that we need
qualified people in the trades ± need to provide
opportunity for these kids to learn teamwork,
safety, responsibility, communications, etc.
Support efforts to strengthen 2.8 A favorable tax climate for individuals and
commercialization and innovation (such as business (particularly small business) would help
the O regon Innovation Plan).
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Simplify and streamline regulations and
permitting processes. Prevent new
regulations and processes that add to the
cost and difficulty of doing business.
B ring down health care costs.
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employment land, connected to
infrastructure.
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(transportation, water, telecommunications,
etc.)
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and incentives for business retention,
expansion and recruitment.
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such as assistance with mar ket research,
4.0 x There is a lot of opportunity to do this
without jeopardizing safety and public
values.
x This is the biggest problem the state has.
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private sector needs.
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environment (workforce is a factor, but
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Improve access to capital for emerging and
existing businesses.
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supplies of energy.
M ake more productive use of our natural
resources (forests, water, etc.)
should provide an atmosphere that allows
business development
2.5 x Not a function for OBP.
x Not easy in the current climate.
2.8 This is not a problem in Oregon as long as we
support hydropower (improve efficiency,
performance, and capacity) ± hydropower must
be included as a renewable energy source
4.0 x We have a unique resource that provides
unique opportunities for Oregon natural
resource based businesses. Improving
utilization expands local business market
share with direct economic,
environmental & social benefit to Oregon.
x Forest owners must have a favorable
regulatory and tax environment to make
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Simplify and streamline regulations and permitting processes. Prevent new regulations and processes that add to the cost and
difficulty of doing business. This is most important because:
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Note: Numbers are shown rather than Xs. These represent an average of actual responses where: 4 = Very Important, 3 = Important,
2 = Not Very Important, and 1 = Not Important At All.

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Part I V : Specific Forest C luster Initiatives

,QDGGLWLRQWRWHOOLQJXVDERXW\RXULQGXVWU\¶VFURVV-cutting policy priorities and concerns, please suggest industry-specific, action-

oriented initiatives that would HQKDQFH\RXULQGXVWU\¶VFRPSHWLWLYHQHVV or ability to create new jobs within the next year.

Please also rate the following specific forest cluster initiatives.

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Federal Forest Restoration Initiatives:
Widely communicate Oregon forest health 3.4 x Targeted communications are extremely
and forest cluster and rural community important, but general communications
economic vitality as priorities of the may not be effective
Governor and the State of Oregon.
Encourage and support local collaboration 3.4 x These are showing some signs of success
efforts, such as community wildfire
protection plans and fully using Healthy
Forest Restoration Act authority, to
accomplish federal forest restoration work
and provide wood fiber to local mills.
Explore a role for the State of Oregon to 3.6 x The role is already clear ± need to assert
directly participate in addressing federal x The state should be working with federal
forest/private forest interface issues with politicians on active management. We
respect to fires, insects, and diseases. seem too accepting of federal
management policies and need to fight for
better policies
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natural resource advisor
Forest Cluster Vitality Initiatives:
Promote development of market 3.6
opportunities and removal of market
barriers for wood products, non-timber
forest products and ecosystems services.
Promote increased funding for integrated
research programs that directly benefit the
forest cluster through improved
management systems, technologies, and
higher value wood products.
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Federal Delegation
2.6 x Good idea, but specific position
description and definition of expected
outcomes is key
x Favor increased state/county forests; less
federal
x The Governor needs to lead
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laws protecting public values. All wood
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building certification systems. Wood
should be given greater credit in
substitution for non-renewable building
materials. Oregon should lead the way by
promoting this in buildings
developed/owned by the state.
x LEED and other green certifications a
must.
2.6 x However, strong connection between
researchers/academics with forest sector
business is necessary to have the desired
result

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Specific Forest C luster Initiatives
Promote state and federal laws and
policies which provide economic
incentives for biomass energy research
and industry development.
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sector innovation system to increase
competitiveness and synergies among the
forest sector, higher education and other
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forest cluster and green building cluster.
Forestry Workforce Initiatives:
Establish employer-led training consortia
by county or workforce region.
Expand forest cluster employers¶ outreach
programs to teachers, school counselors,
students and parents that promote career
opportunities in the cluster and develop
appropriate forestry education programs
and specific skill training for students who
want to pursue university/community
college education or enter the workforce
directly from high school
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3.2 x Incentives are two-edged and may create
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very carefully with attention to timeframe
and sustainability
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forest sustainability, carbon sequestering
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based natural resources is important for
all students so that they can become better
informed about the environment they are
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some forests are managed to produce
sustainable natural resources such as
wood.
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4 3 2
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Establish a Career Pathways in 3.2 x This sounds like a mentorship program

Renewable Materials program to link high
school students and adults with careers in
the cluster based on the Oregon Forest
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Thank you for your input to the Oregon Business Plan and the Oregon Cluster Network.

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Part V : C luster Top Initiative

,QDGGLWLRQWRWHOOLQJXVDERXW\RXULQGXVWU\¶Vcross-cutting policy priorities and concerns, please suggest industry-specific, action-

oriented initiatives that would HQKDQFH\RXULQGXVWU\¶VFRPSHWLWLYHQHVV or ability to create new jobs within the next year. You may list
your top three, but please indicate your TOP PRIORITY as we will only have room to publicize one initiative from each cluster in the
2010 OBP materials. (Other suggestions will be kept for consideration in future years and can still be listed on the website). Your top
initiative should be well-defined, actionable, and likely to lead directly to job creation or direct economic benefit for the State of Oregon.

TOP FORESTRY AND WOOD PRODUCTS CLUSTER INITIATIVE:

Federal Forest Restoration and Biomass E nergy Initiative

x Support implementation of the recommendations of the Federal Forestlands Advisory Committee to encourage active management
of federal forests, especially by thinning and reducing fuels on dry-side forests and supporting collaborative groups.
x Widely communicate Oregon forest health and forest cluster and rural community economic vitality as priorities of the Governor
and the State of Oregon.
x Explore a role for the State of Oregon to directly participate in addressing federal/private forest interface issues with respect to
fires, insects and diseases.
x Promote state and federal laws and policies which promote economic incentives and technical assistance and reduces disincentives
for biomass energy industry development.
x Promote the development of market opportunities and removal of barriers for wood products, non-timber forest products and
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OTHERS:

Comments or Explanations:

This initiative is holistic. It addresses the environmental, social and economic situation by improving forest health, creating renewable
energy and creating rural jobs.

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