Timeline of FPB meeting broadcast

Click HERE for the PDF to download the 11/10/22 Forest Practices Board meeting link as well as the table that provides the meeting timeline.

Alternatively, please refer to the following timeline table of the meeting broadcast and visit the following website for the FPB Meeting Recording: https://tvw.org/video/washington-state-forest-practices-board-2022111018...

Time Topic/Speaker
0:00:00

Beginning of Forest Practice Board meeting 11/10/22

5:40

Agenda item: Criteria For Relatively Low Impact (Not our template) complex bureaucratic issue that gets approved.
DNR's Saboor Jawad explains the dispute and dispute resolution processes ending in Majority/Minority (WFFA & Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA), Washington State Association of Counties (WSAC) reports.
 

Public Testimony:

14:10

Ken Miller - WFFA

17:30

Elaine Oneil - WFFA

19:20

John Henrikson - WFFA

21:20

Board motions, discussion, unanimous vote to approve.
   

25:15

Agenda Item: WFFA Template Proposal
DNR's Saboor Jawad explains the dispute and dispute resolution processes ending in Majority/Minority (WFFA & Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA), Washington State Association of Counties (WSAC) reports.
 

Public testimony (all but one are supportive):

29:00

     Darin Cramer - WFPA

31:35

     Ken Miller - WFFA

35:25

     Jason Spadero - WFPA

37:00

     John Gold - WFFA

40:50

     Dave Sweitzer - Washington Hardwood Commission

44:55

     Elaine Oneil (characterizing some of the 250 SFLO emailed testimony) - WFFA

49:50

     Cody Thomas (opposed) - Eastside tribes

51:20

     Tom Westergreen - WFFA

54:20

     Majority and Minority Reports/Position Summaries:

55:19

     Marc Engel (Majority) - DNR

1:08:20

     Ken Miller & Elaine Oneil (Minority) - WFFA

1:29:50

     Court Stanley (Minority) - WSAC

1:33:44

Stakeholder Response to Questions from the Forest Practices Board members
(L to R: Ken Miller, Elaine Oneil, Brandon Austin (Ecology), Alec Brown (Conservation), Marc Engel (DNR)

2:23:00

Board motions from Board members Steve Barnowe-Meyer (SFLO Representative), discussions, and ultimately votes to reject (8 to 4) all of our buffer proposals.
(We recommended dropping the 25' buffer that all supported; the remaining three buffer width proposals were voted down. Opposed: Depts of Ecology, Fish & Wildlife, Natural Resources, Commerce, & Agriculture; Eastside & Westside Tribes; & Conservation. Support: Small Forest Land Owners; Industry; Counties; Labor; (Contract Loggers absent)).

2:51:30

Substitute/alternative motion by Board Chair Alex Smith (DNR)

2:57:18

Board Chair withdraws the DNR alternative motion and meeting breaks for lunch

2:57:52

Meeting reconvenes with Public Testimony on general topics

2:58:10

     Darin Cramer - WFPA

3:03:19

     Elaine Oneil - WFFA

3:08:20

     Ken Miller - WFFA (testifies and then declines to leave the speaker's table)

3:12:40

Chair asks Ken whether he is willing to leave - Ken declines
3:13:20

 

Chair moved and the Board voted to relocate the rest of the meeting to another room not available to the public