Delineating Landslide and Debris Flow Susceptibility in Western Oregon in Support of the Private Forest AccordJanuary 12th, 2024
FiledJanuary 12th, 2024Governor Brown states that “this agreement (the Private Forest Accord, PFA) will help to ensure that Oregon continues to have healthy forests, fish, and wildlife, as well as economic growth for our forest industry and rural communities, for generations to come”1. To meet these goals requires an understanding of how human interactions with the landscape will affect forests, fish, and wildlife. In Oregon, landslides and timber harvest are important components of this interaction. This document presents an overview of the background, approach, and methods concerning the prediction of landslide and debris-flow susceptibility in western Oregon. The focus here is on fish, and hence on interactions between landslides, forests, and river-stream environments.