The Blodgett Tract is a 2,440 acre forest located in Columbia County about four miles south of the Columbia River in the upper Nehalem basin. The western boundary of the tract is the Clatsop County line which is also the eastern boundary of the Clatsop State Forest. The other three sides of the tract are surrounded by private industrial forest lands.

State forest lands in the north coast region are actively managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry to maintain patches of different habitat types across the landscape. These patches may contain remnant old growth trees, snags, residual live trees, down wood and multi-layered canopies.

While the structure of individual stands in this management strategy will change constantly, the range of stand structures and their relative abundance across the landscape are expected to remain reasonably stable. Silvicultural treatments include thinning and regeneration harvest. Private industrial forest lands in the North Coast are generally managed under 40-60 year rotations that end in regeneration harvests. Harvests that occur on private and state lands must comply with the Oregon Forest Practices Act.

Information about the management of Oregon’s State forest lands and the text of the forest practice rules can be found at http://www.odf.state.or.us/.