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***Please Note***
The City Administrator has suspended all non-essential regular City Committee/Commission meetings beginning March 12, 2020, as a precautionary and preventive measure for COVID-19. Non-essential meetings are defined as anything not having a state or federal timeline for funding. As a result, most Commissions will not be meeting until further notice. The goal is to keep City employees healthy so that they can continue providing essential functions to our citizens.

Staff is currently working on the technical details of facilitating electronic meetings for the City Council and Planning Commission and that is the priority. Once that is worked out staff will turn efforts to helping facilitate regular Commission and Committee meetings as needed.

The powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Forest Lands Commission are:

To develop forest management plans for the City of Ashland's municipal forests
To provide direction and oversight to planning teams concerning wildland urban interface (wildfire lands) and Ashland Creek Watershed.
To develop community volunteer programs to assist in implementation of the Ashland Forest Plan and other project plans.
To submit recommendations to the City Council regarding forest management practices.
To ensure that plans integrate diverse opinions of citizens and private land owners.
To promote public knowledge and acceptance of the Ashland Forest Plan programs.

Forest Lands Commission Documents

2016 Ashland Forest Plan and Interactive Map

City Forest Lands Restoration Project Phase II

City Forestlands Restoration Phase III (Winburn Parcel)

City Forestlands 2013 Controlled Underburn Monitoring Report

City Forestlands 2015 Underburn Monitoring Report

2009 Siskiyou Fire Review

Ashland Forest Plan 1992

Please remember that other than staff, the people listed below are volunteers working on behalf of our community and should only be contacted on matters related to their particular commission, committee or board.

Contact the Forest Lands Commission

Established	Meetings	Length of Term
1994	Second Tuesday of the Month at Fire Station #2 (1860 Ashland St)	3 year terms

Members

Name	Title	Term Begin	Term End
Frank Betlejewski	Commissioner�-�Position�3	2/7/2012	4/30/2023
Luke Brandy	Commissioner�-Position�4	11/18/2014	4/30/2023
Chris Chambers	Wildfire�Division�Chief
Shannon Downey	Commissioner�-�Position�5	1/5/2016	4/30/2021
Rick Landt	Parks�Commission�Liaison�-�Position�7
Nathan Lewis	Commissioner�-�Position�1	10/18/2016	4/30/2022
Priscila Schuyler-Franco	Commissioner�-�Position�6	8/21/2018	4/30/2021
Stefani Seffinger	Council�Liaison	2/5/2019	12/31/2020
John Williams	Commissioner - Position 2	6/2/2020	4/30/2022