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89 COMMON GROUND VOL . 13 NO . 1 JANUARY—MARCH 2O02 TRACTS Grants for sustainable forestry. The Na . Backers of Oregon ' s model growth manage - tional Commission on Science for Sustain- ment law await a critical state Supreme able Forestry (202 / 530 -5810, ncssf. org ) is Court decision regarding the legality of a soliciting proposals for 10 grants up to property rights measure that, if put into $250, 000 each for research on the relation- place, could decimate the 28 -year- old law6 ship between biodiversity and forest Measure 7, approved by voters in November management . The Doris Duke Charitable 2000, requires that landowners get paid for Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Packard any drop in land value stemming from most Oregon 's Measure Foundation and National Forest Foundation state or local regulations . The state of Oregon are funding the commission, which launched estimated the measure could cost $ 5A billion 7 requires that the five-year, $ 7 . 5 million project in January . a year, equivalent to the state' s annual gen- landowners get It aims to improve the scientific basis for the eral fund budget. A trial court judge invali- paid for any drop development, implementation and evalua- dated the measure in February 2001 on in land value tion of sustainable forestry practices in the constitutional grounds, and the state Su- United States . The commission is conducted preme Court heard arguments on appeal in stemmingfrom under the auspices of the National Council September . A decision is expected as early most state or local for Science and the Environment (202 / 530- as February . The growth management law 5810, NCSEonline . org ), a nonprofit group requires 241 Oregon cities to draw urban regulations . working to improve the science behind envi- growth boundaries to rein in development ronmental decision-making . " Our number and limits 25 . 5 million acres to farm and for- one charge is to conduct the highest priority, est use . By one estimate, farmers and forest Objective, non- advocacy research on land owners have received $3 . 5 billion since biodiversity and sustainable forestry that is 1973 in compensation through property tax most relevant to improving management reductions . Their land is taxed at a special as- practices in the next five years, " said John sessment rate that is much lower than even Gordon, commission chair, and former pro- farm use value, let alone development value * fessor at the Yale School of Forestry and No matter what the high court decides, vot- Environmental Studies , ers will likely revisit the issue this fall . The Conservation Fund would like to thank the following recent contributors to the COMMON GROUND Research Fund: David H . Ackerman Charles Conklin Jr. Scott Gongaware Bob Langsenkamp Jr. Darla Sather Michael Alexander Walter Cook Christopher Graham George Lauff Mary Savala Cynthia Andrews Lane Coulston Mr. & Mrs . Henry Gray Elizabeth Lewis John Scott Jr. Candace Ashmun William Cowles Arlene Grubbs Barbara Lipscomb Michael Seeland Henry Baker Jr. Charles Creighton Otto Gutenson Orie Loucks John Simpson Barbara Bedford & Charles Geisler Edmund Cronin Jr. Guy Hager Carolyn Lowe Sandra Smith Carole Bell Barbara Dean Steven Hamburg Cyrus Lyle Jr. Elizabeth Stanek Matthew Bender Frank Dinovo Samuel Hamill, Jr. Donald Mansius Marion Stoddart Robert Bennett Jr. Kathleen Donaghue Doreen Hamilton Catherine McCracken Marjory Swope Kenneth Berlin Frederick Dorrell Clifford J . 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David White Ronald & Pamela Castle Elizabeth Garst Michael Keathley Nina Ratrie Peyton Andrew & Stephanie Wilbur Marian Chertow William Ginsberg Dorothy Keough Richard Pritzlaff Edith Wilhelm James Clarke Mr. & Mrs. Robert Glennon Karen Kerner Thomas Pytel Howard Williams Charles & Anita King Ala Reid Frank Wolff David Kinnamon Robert Reid Jr. Mark Wyckoff Douglas Knudson Ellen Reneke Jan Zimmerman More than 160 donors gave $8, 045 to the Josephine Kohn Kenneth Ribbeck COMMON GROUND Research Fund in 2001 . if Karen Kress Eugene Roark you would like to make a gift, please do . Send Mike Kruse G . A. Robinson III Berthe Ladd Mike Roeder your check c / o The Conservation Fund, 1800 N . Ney Landrum Edwin Scott Rosenbaum Kent St ., Suite 1120, Arlington, VA 22209-2156 . W . Michael Lane Michael Russell