Vision and Guiding Principles
This page contains information about the Vision and Guiding Principles from the Corvallis Forest Stewardship Plan (CFSP), which is currently undergoing revision by the Corvallis Forest Stewardship Plan Update Task Force. Based on the Task Force’s recommendations, the City Council has tentatively approved an updated Vision statement and Guiding Principles. Read the updated Vision and Guiding Principles document here.
| Previous Vision Statement (2013) | Updated Vision Statement (2023/2024) |
|---|---|
| The Corvallis Forest within the Rock Creek Watershed is a professionally managed, healthy ecosystem with a diverse forest and productive habitat for all species native to the watershed. |
The Corvallis Forest within the Rock Creek Watershed is a model for sustainable forest management practices, esteemed by Corvallis residents as a diverse forested landscape that provides numerous benefits, including safe and reliable drinking water, resilience to climate change, diverse terrestrial and aquatic habitats for native species, and abundant carbon storage. |
| Previous Guiding Principles (2013) | Updated Guiding Principles (2023/2024) |
|---|---|
| Corvallis Forest supports high quality water production for the City of Corvallis; | Resource Principle GP #1: The Corvallis Forest will be managed to support source water protection for the production of high-quality water for the City of Corvallis |
| Protecting the health and diversity of the forest and its ecosystems are top priorities; | Resource Principle GP #2: The Corvallis Forest will be managed to prioritize protection of ecosystem functions including both diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. |
| Conservation-based management practices demonstrate that water quality, stream health, wildlife habitat enhancement, and tree harvest can go hand in hand; | Resource Principle GP #3: The Corvallis Forest will be managed in a way that considers and promotes the climate benefits of forests (such as carbon storage) in context with other resources (such as water quality and habitat diversity) |
| Corvallis Forest is managed to be comprised of a variety of different ages and types of forest to provide diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats; |
Approach Principle GP #4: The Corvallis Forest will be managed to be comprised of a variety of different habitat and age structures and compositions to provide diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. |
| Corvallis Forest is resilient to fire, invasive species, insects and disease; | Approach Principle GP #5: The Corvallis Forest will be managed for resiliency to fire, invasive species, insects, disease, and climate change. |
| ... | Approach Principle GP #6: The Corvallis Forest will be managed in consideration of the numerous tradeoffs that occur with balancing multiple resource objectives |
| Access is controlled to minimize risk of fire, water contamination and invasive species introduction; | Approach Principle GP #7: The City will control access to the Corvallis Forest to minimize the risk of fire, water contamination, and the introduction of invasive species |
| We are a “good neighbor” and integrated into the larger landscape, recognizing our connections to the greater watershed; | Other Principle GP #8: The Corvallis Forest will be a good neighbor by recognizing and managing for integration into the larger landscape, and its connections to the greater watershed. |
| Corvallis Forest is available for limited educational, recreational, and research opportunities; | Other Principle GP #9: The Corvallis Forest will be available for approved educational, recreational, and research opportunities. |
| Corvallis Forest is a generator of revenue that is primarily used to offset the cost of forest management, and secondarily helps fund the City of Corvallis water utility system | Other Principle GP #10: If any revenue is generated from the Corvallis Forest, it will be used to offset the cost of management of the forest |
