Governor's Advisory Committee on Chip Mills

Final Report
August 1, 2000

APPENDICES

 

Contents

A. Timber resource data

B. Committee members

C. Committee votes

D. Acknowledgments

APPENDIX A

Additional Scenarios of Projected Growth and Drain in Missouri Based on Alternative Assumptions

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APPENDIX B

Governor's Advisory Committee on Chip Mills :
Committee Members
(14 Members)

1. Mark S. Garnett ,West Plains, MO Forest products representative
2. Jon D. Smith, Mountain View, MO Forest products representative
3. Jay R. Law, St. James, MO
     (May 1999 – Present)
    Dierdre K. Hirner, Columbia, MO
     (November 1998 – April 1999)		 Citizen environmental conservation group
4. David E. Bedan, Columbia, MO Citizen environmental conservation group
5. Emily R. Firebaugh, Farmington, MO Forest landowner
6. David A. Day, Dixon, MO Private property owner organization representative
7. Senator Wayne Goode, St. Louis, MO Senator
8. Senator Doyle Childers, Reeds Spring, MO Senator
9. Rep. Jerry McBride, Edgar Springs, MO Representative
10. Rep. Bill Foster, Poplar Bluff, MO Representative
11. Stephen Mahfood, Jefferson City
Director – Department of Natural Resources		 Department of Natural Resources
12. Jerry Conley, Jefferson City, MO
     (September 1999 to Present)
     Marvin Brown, Jefferson City, MO
     (November 1998 to August 1999)
Director - Department of Conservation		 Department of Conservation
13. Joseph L. Driskill, Jefferson City, MO
     (January 2000 to Present)
     Earl Cannon, Jefferson City, MO
     (November 1998 to December 1999)
Director – Department of Economic Development		 Department of Economic Development
14. John L. Saunders, Jefferson City, MO
     (January 2000 to Present)
     Sarah Tyree, Jefferson City, MO
     (November 1998 to December 1999)
Director – Department of Agriculture		 Department of Agriculture

APPENDIX C

Recommendations (with Votes)
Governor's Advisory Committee on Chip Mills

April 9 and 10, 2000

Bedan – David E. Bedan
Childers – Senator Doyle Childers
Conley – Jerry Conley
Day – David A. Day
Driskill – Joseph L. Driskill
Firebaugh – Emily R. Firebaugh
Foster – Representative Bill Foster
Garnett – Mark S. Garnett
Goode – Senator Wayne Goode
Law – Jay R. Law
Mahfood – Stephen Mahfood
McBride – Representative Jerry McBride
Saunders – John L. Saunders
Smith – Jon D. Smith

SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS

"Enhance the marketing efforts by the Departments of Agriculture and Economic Development to assist in the development of value-added forest products and export trade."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Endorse the grant program for marketing and feasibility studies (HB 888) which could provide assistance for wood product companies to develop value-added agricultural business concepts that:

  1. Lead to and result in development, processing and marketing of new or expanded uses or techniques for agricultural products; and
  2. Foster agricultural economic development in Missouri's rural communities."

Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Encourage the expansion of the research and development of alternative fiber sources for paper. The project would identify crops with high potential and create high yield varieties of alternative sources of raw materials."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Encourage and support the development of forestry cooperatives for such things as marketing, management, export development and other business activities."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Applicants for state discretionary incentives should include the name and credentials of the professional forester who has responsibility for supervising timber harvesting and procurement activities for the applicant for the proposed new facility or expansion."
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Establish an evaluation project to analyze forest landowner educational efforts. The evaluation is to be conducted by the Missouri Department of Conservation."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Establish some mechanism such as through a permit system that requires the high capacity chip mills to use a high percentage of cull, rough and rotten trees."
Yes
Bedan, Driskill, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law
Absent
McBride

 "Expand policies that encourage the paper manufacturing industry to increase the use of recovered paper and expand programs that require or promote the recovery of waste paper."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Institute strategies that reduce the demand for virgin wood pulp, including promoting greater acceptance by the public and private sectors of lower grade paper stock in publications."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Driskill, Firebaugh, Law
Absent
McBride

"The Missouri Department of Economic Development should make special efforts, working cooperatively with other agencies, to help small to mid-sized value-added forest products companies to local or expand in Missouri."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"The Committee endorses the idea of focusing incentives on those firms and industry segments that through expansion or diversification can provide substantial new jobs (in the aggregate) as well as enhance the value-adding process to primary timber products."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Create a system to permit wood waste recovery facilities and provide incentives for those facilities using a certain percentage of waste wood."
Yes
Bedan, Driskill, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law
Absent
McBride

"Have a reward and/or incentive to be given at the annual Governor's Economic Development Conference to a company demonstrating outstanding performance in wood waste recovery."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Firebaugh, Law
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT

Logger Training

"Support the existing Statewide Certification Training Program for Loggers and create incentives for voluntary logger certification and encourage the use of such trained loggers in timber harvesting and maintain a list of such certified loggers."
Yes
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Bedan, Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Establish a Board for Professional Loggers in the Division of Professional Registration of the Missouri Department of Economic Development."
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Abstain
Bedan, Firebaugh
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Create incentives for logger certification by requiring that a Missouri Department of conservation certified logger be on-site during harvesting."
Yes
Bedan, Firebaugh, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Encourage the formation of a coalition of forest landowners that would agree to use only trained loggers and implement sustainable forestry principles."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Firebaugh
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

Professional Foresters

"Establish licensing for persons with four-year degrees (BSF or higher) from Society of American Foresters (SAF) accredited Universities or Colleges."
Yes
Conley, Firebaugh
No
Bedan, Childers, Day, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Establish a Professional Registry Board for professional licensed foresters to practice in Missouri."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Require high capacity chip mills to purchase timber only from harvests that have been done by licensed professional foresters who certify the use of BMPs in the harvest."
Yes
Bedan, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Smith
Absent
McBride

Landowner Education

"Conduct a comprehensive evaluation of all existing forest landowner education programs in Missouri."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, Law, McBride

"The University of Missouri Outreach and Extension in conjunction with MDC foresters offer silviculture courses throughout the state in an intensive educational drive for five years."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, Law, McBride

"Expand the Forest Cropland or Stewardship programs already in place and aggressively market them to enroll landowners in the programs."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, Law, McBride

"Establish working group of the Departments of Agriculture, Conservation, Natural Resources and Economic Development and University Extension to provide support to any future Missouri Forest Resource Council and to:

  1. Produce an informational campaign on the income possibilities from managing timberland properly for traditional products (sawtimber, veneer, posts, pulpwood, firewood, etc.) special forest products (burls, vines, pollen, seed, unique wood, etc.), and recreation products such as hunt-lease, group and other forms of forest recreation.
  2. The working group should enter into a working agreement that ensures sharing of information regarding what each agency is doing in education in forestry.
  3. Develop and provide oversight of the content of a landowner's educational program.
  4. Deliver the educational program as a collaborative effort of the above organizations, but with the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension acting as the lead educational agency."

Yes
Bedan, Childer, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Smith

"Develop seminars to assist landowners in bidding and selling their standing timber."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Smith

"Institute a high intensity forest landowner education effort in the chip mill sourcing zones and include an evaluation of effectiveness."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Saunders, Smith

"Fund a pilot project to encourage landowners to do timberland improvements such as thinnings, removal of culls, etc., in lieu of liquidation and/or timberland conversion to pasture or other uses."
Yes
Garnett
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Smith

"Develop an outcomes/impact assessment to see how the voluntary approach is working. If working, then the programs should be continued. If not, then the voluntary approach will need to be reassessed."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Smith

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Pollution Reduction

"Money to address soil erosion on forestland should be made available from the Soil and Water Conservation Fund."
Yes
Bedan, Mahfood
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

Forest Practices Act

"A Forest Practices Act that includes mandatory use of BMPs, harvest notification, logger and forester certification, and a harvest plan should be passed."
Yes
Bedan, Goode, Mahfood
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

Resource Recovery

"Legislation should be passed to establish authority for determining the characteristics of the timber used by high capacity chip mills."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Driskill, Foster, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Day, Firebaugh, Garnett
Absent
McBride

Sustainable Forest Resources Act and Forest Resources Council

"Update State Forestry Law to include new incentives intended to increase participation in the program and ensure long-term forest resource sustainability for Missouri. Best Management Practices shall be utilized as a general requirement for any forest landowner receiving assistance under such program."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Law, McBride

"Recommend a revision of the State's Forestry Act to provide for a minimum of $10/acre annual payment as an incentive for those who put their land in Forest Crop and subscribe to BMPs and allowing access to their lands by MDC. (Continue as a voluntary program with taxes deferred for lands in the program and a yield tax on harvested volume. Repeal the $400 per acre value limitation and reduce the sign-up obligation to 10 years as added incentives)"
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Law, McBride

"A Forest Resources Council should be established. The Council would serve at least four roles:

  1. Foster collaboration and provide an ongoing public forum among landowners, loggers, wood-based industries, environmental interests, the tourism industry, public agencies and others with a vital vested interest in the well-being of Missouri's forest resource.
  2. Advise the governor and state, county and local governments on sustainable forest resource policies and practices.
  3. Coordinate priority forestry research efforts in the state and develop and implement initiatives in sustainable forest management.
  4. Appointments shall be submitted by the groups involved and confirmed by the Senate, assigned to the Department of Conservation for administrative support."

Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Day, Firebaugh, Garnett
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

Ensuring BMPs

"An interagency task force of the Departments of Conservation, Natural Resources and Agriculture; a representative of industry, and environmental organization, and professional forestry organization; and the School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Missouri, should be created to evaluate the present definition of "Best Management Practices" by January 1, 2002."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Develop an incentive approach to sustainable forestry management and use of BMPs."
Yes
Bedan, Garnett, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Law, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Require chip mills and other forest products companies to obtain their timber supplies from loggers trained in Best Management Practices."
Yes
Bedan, Goode, Mahfood
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"It is the interest of the state of Missouri that owners of forest lands use Best Management Practices (BMP) based on "Missouri Watershed Protection Practices" published by the Missouri Department of Conservation with Missouri's Department of Natural Resources and other agencies, to protect soil and water resources for current and future generations of Missourians.

It is the purpose of this Act to include that BMP will be carried out within the sensitive portions of riparian areas and where the forest cover is to be greatly reduced on sizable areas of land to protect water quality, especially in the karst topography of the Ozark Region where soils are inherently low in fertility and the landscape is more dissected.

The use of best management practices is voluntary except: when a landowner, trustee, timber deed holder or assignee plans to remove 50% or more of the forest cover (measured by trees 5.0 inches in diameter at breast height, 4.5 feet in height) on more than 40 contiguous acres of forest land within one year within the Ozark Regions.

A Missouri Timber Harvest Permit must be obtained in advance for those situations where BMPs are required under paragraph 2 above. Permits to be issued by the Missouri Department of Conservation. The issued permit grants access to the Department for the sole purpose of inspecting the permitted area(s)."
Yes
Bedan, Conley, Driskill, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett
Absent
McBride
NOTE:
Three votes were taken on this issue. The second and third votes related to adding the word "contiguous" in the third paragraph.

The second vote was taken to add the word "contiguous." The votes were:
Yes
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Foster, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
No
Bedan, Firebaugh, Mahfood
Absent
Goode, McBride

The third vote was taken as an overall approval with the change. The votes were:
Yes
Bedan, Conley, Driskill, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett
Absent
Goode, McBride

"New chip mills locating in Missouri should be required to obtain timber only from sources using BMPs."
Yes
Bedan, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law
Absent
McBride

"Amend the State Forestry Law to require all timberland owners to pay a 6% timber severance fee based on gross income from the sale of timber products and then provide income tax credits if the following criteria are met.

  1. The timberland owner has secured the assistance of a Licensed Forester or a State Forester to develop a plan for the sustainability of the forest resources.
  2. A timber sale contract requiring "Best Management Practices" is employed to protect the water and soil resources of the owners and adjoining neighbors' properties.
  3. Licensed Loggers are used resulting in "Best Management Practices" being carried out as a part of harvesting operations."

No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

Information Base

"Develop a database about forest resources in Missouri similar to what is presently done for agriculture in the Census of Agriculture. The database needs to include:

  1. Forest land ownership
  2. An annual inventory and survey of forest resources and use."

Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Institute a long term research effort, focused in the chip mill sourcing zones utilizing remote sensing, to investigate harvest site, location, methodology and use of Best Management Practices."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"The long-term research effort should consider:

  1. An annual inventory intensive enough to detect resource changes in a short time period.
  2. Can technology detect changes in size class distribution?
  3. Can remote sensing be used to help determine the impacts of forest fragmentation?"

Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Garnett
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"The Committee supports a system of voluntary harvest pre-notification to the Missouri Department of Conservation of commercial timber harvests as a means to disseminate forest management information to landowners and to aid in the collection of information on extent and type of timber harvests, type of forest management used, and the use of Best Management Practices on timber harvests on private land."
Yes
Childers, Conley, Day, Law, Saunders, Smith
No
Bedan, Firebaugh, Mahfood
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Garnett, Goode, McBride

Other

"Companies should be encouraged to use the principles of the Sustainable Forest Initiative or other certification programs on all forestlands and participate in a verification process."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Responsible parties should be fined based on the environmental degradation their actions have caused. The resulting fund would then be used for a combination of education, incentives, regulation and monitoring."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Firebaugh, Foster, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Day, Garnett, Law
Absent
Driskill, Goode, McBride

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Financing

"Encourage producers to develop a statewide check-off program on timber sales modeled after the check-off program for other agricultural commodities. The revenue generated would be used to support a variety of programs, including research, marketing initiatives, value-added wood products and landowner and public education."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Consider the use of revenues derived from the soil conservation portion of the Missouri Parks and Soils Sales Tax to sustain soil productivity for sustainable forest management and forest resources in Missouri within the guidelines of current legislation."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Support the continued use of the Missouri Department of Conservation's Conservation Sales Tax as a source of funding for programs that enhance forestry programs."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Require a Conservation Bond by timber owners prior to harvesting. Refund when sustainable forest management and BMPs are used."
Yes
Bedan, Conley, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Enact a severance tax to be assessed on timber harvest to be returned as incentive for using sustainable forest management and BMPs."
Yes
Bedan, Conley, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Support Missouri Conservation Commission's further consideration of possible use of a yield tax to encourage forest sustainability."
Yes
Bedan, Conley, Driskill, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Provide tax credits for timber owners to use recommended practices, planning and management.

  1. Provide a tax credit if BMPs were used with a licensed, certified or accredited forestry consultant and loggers.
  2. Provide a tax credit on a standing timber sale if the harvest was at least 15% cull, rough, rotten and/or trash wood.
  3. Institute a reforestation tax credit with a yearly limit to landowners who replant idle, or cutover timberland.
  4. Give a tax credit for the cost of the programs to those who are certified as using BMPs"

Yes
Garnett
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Reduce tax liability for timber owners who use sustainable management and BMP by:"
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

Votes taken separately on each of the following paragraphs for inclusion or not, or re-wording:
To delete in its entirety:
"1. Exclude a percentage of timber income from income tax liability."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Garnett
Absent
McBride

"2. Create a sliding scale on capital gains tax on the sale of timber."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnet, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"3. Reduce the inheritance tax liability on timberland."
Two votes were taken on whether to retain the previous wording with the final vote being:
Yes
Garnett
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"4. Expense management costs."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"5. Recommend a double deduction for net cost of timber stand improvement."
Yes
Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law, Smith
No
Bedan, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders
Absent
McBride

"6. Request Congress to raise the threshold on inheritance taxes and reduce rate of inheritance taxes."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Driskill, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Goode, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
Absent
McBride

"Have a discount in workman compensation costs if loggers, sawyers, and millers are licensed and/or trained to ensure quality of the work site and BMPs."
Yes
Firebaugh, Mahfood
No
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

GENERAL ISSUES

"A moratorium on issuing new permits to high capacity chip mills until more hard information is available on the environmental, economic and social impact of their presence in the Missouri Ozarks. (3 year state funded study by MDC, DNR, UMC, EPA and USFS-Research)"
Yes
Bedan, Driskill, Goode, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Foster, Garnett, Law
Absent
McBride

"Loggers and timber buyers be registered or licensed by a board as one step towards bringing Best Management Practices into the harvesting of privately owned timber and to help landowners acquire the services of trained loggers. (MFPA-MDC to provide training and certification of training with registration or licensing at the state level.)"
Yes
Bedan, Firebaugh, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Garnett, Smith
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"Develop and evaluate effective forest landowner education programs under the direction of the Missouri Forest Resource Council. MFRC to over-see and recommend development of educational programs and legislation that assist owners in learning about the care of their forest resources and the protection of soil and water quality during timber harvesting. (Coordinate local education program involving the MDC, DNR, Agr., UMC, Farm Bureau, MFPA, FFA advisors, RCandD, NRSCS, and the Soil Conservation Districts. Include timber prices trends in information reported on the sale of farm products.)"
Yes
Bedan, Law, Mahfood, Saunders
No
Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride, Smith

"Special funding be provided by the Missouri Legislature to support the study of the environmental, economic and social impact of chip mills in the Missouri Ozarks."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Law, Mahfood, Saunders, Smith
No
Garnett
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

"It is paramount that legislative or administrative initiatives relative to timber management recognize the fundamental rights and responsibilities of property owners. This Committee believes property rights must be protected as consideration is given to increased regulation of Missouri's timber resources. We advocate policies and land use practices that protect our soil and water resources without unduly restricting landowners' discretion to make responsible land use decisions."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Saunders, Smith
No
Mahfood
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

Vote was taken to add the following paragraph.
"We believe that Missouri's natural resources must be protected and that landowners have an obligation to protect those resources."
Yes
Bedan, Childers, Mahfood, Smith
No
Conley, Day, Firebaugh, Garnett, Law, Saunders
Absent
Driskill, Foster, Goode, McBride

Removed from consideration since they were discussed under other items:

Develop new financing incentives and use along with existing incentives to:

  1. Facilitate the purchase of equipment resulting in greater efficiency.
  2. Expand recycling of waste products.
  3. Create more and better jobs in industries that add significant value to the product.

Legislation should be passed to establish authority for resource recovery certification of high capacity chip mills in the state, whereby a minimum percentage of a facility's feedstock is required to be waste wood.

Institute a moratorium on new high capacity chip mills in the state until further information/study on their potential effects of the forest resource is obtained/completed.

That a Missouri Forest Resource Council (MFRC) be established by the legislature to coordinate, evaluate and study programs important to Missouri's private forestlands and to study and to make recommendations on legislature. (Similar in makeup of this committee with major groups represented. The MFRC to make recommendations concerning BMP's a Missouri Forest Practices Act and other needed legislation and to serve as the overseers and the appeal board for acts, rules, and codes related to private forest lands.)

APPENDIX D

Acknowledgments

The Governor's Advisory Committee on Chip Mills wishes to express its appreciation to the many individuals who provided information and assistance in the process of carrying out its tasks. These include individuals who compiled reports requested by the Committee, those who gave formal presentations at Committee hearings, those who contributed information included in sections of the report, and those who assisted the Committee in the variety of process-related activities necessary for the successful completion of its work. The Committee owes a debt of gratitude to the following:

Reports compiled for the Committee :

John P. Dwyer, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Department of Forestry, Columbia, MO Stephen R. Shifley, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Columbia, MO W. Dustin Walter, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Center for Agroforestry, Columbia, MO

Invited presentations to the Committee :

Kati Auman, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, MO Scott Banbury, Dogwood Alliance, Memphis, TN Bill Bryan, Assistant Attorney General, State of Missouri Gerald Bryan, University of Missouri, Extension Division, Jackson, MO Rick Cantrell, American Forest and Paper Association, Washington, D.C. David Diamond, Missouri Resource Assessment Partnership (MORAP), Environmental Technology Center, Columbia, MO Hank Dorst, Mark Twain Forest Watchers, Elk Creek, MO Soren Erickson, Missouri Forest Products Association, Jefferson City, MO Joseph Garvey, Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO Toni Nenninger Goodwater, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, St. Louis, MO James Guldin, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Hot Springs, AR Charles Hirt, Canal Corporation, Scott City, MO Rob Jacobson, U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO Alan R.P. Journet, Southeast Missouri State University, Department of Biology, Cape Girardeau, MO Tom Kruzen, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Mountain View, MO Lynn McClure, Missouri Forest Products Association, Jefferson City, Mo Corey Ridenhour, Missouri Forest Products Association, Jefferson City, MO Cielo Sand, Dogwood Alliance, Chattanooga, TN Gary Schneider, University of Tennessee, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Knoxville, TN Stephen R. Shifley, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Columbia, MO Skip Stokes, Missouri Forest Products Association, Jefferson City, MO John M. Wood, Westvaco Corporation, Wickliffe, KY

Information and assistance in compilation of Committee report:

John P. Dwyer, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Department of Forestry, Columbia, MO Stephen Galliher, Willamette Industries, Piedmont, MO Charles Hirt, Canal Corporation, Scott City, MO Mike Hoffman, Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO Shelby Jones, Missouri Department of Conservation (retired), Consulting forester, Jefferson City, MO David Hammer, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Department of Soil Science, Columbia, MO Rob Jacobson, U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Research Center, Columbia, MO John Kabrick, Missouri Department of Conservation, Columbia, MO Tom Lange, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, MO Dan Shuette, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, MO Stephen R. Shifley, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Columbia, MO Frank Thompson, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, Columbia, MO Clinton Trammel, Pioneer Forest, Salem, MO

Assistance in Committee process and procedures :

Brian Brookshire, Missouri Department of Conservation, Jefferson City, MO Alice Geller, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, MO Bernard J. Lewis, University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Department of Forestry, Columbia, MO Jerry L. Wade, University of Missouri, Extension Division -- Community Development, Columbia, MO Llona C. Weiss, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Jefferson City, MO

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