Coquille Subbasin Working Atlas - p4
Ownership
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The pattern of land ownership in the Coquille subbasin is complex. As indicated by the chart in Figure 1, roughly 66 percent of the subbasin is privately owned and about one-third is public land, primarily federal. A significant portion of the southern tip of the basin — at the headwaters of the South Fork of the Coquille — is part of the Siskiyou National Forest managed by the US Forest Service (USFS). The northern and eastern portions of the basin are dominated by scattered parcels of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). There are also several small parcels of land owned by the State of Oregon, the largest of which is Bullards Beach State Park along the coast north of the city of Bandon. Over half of the private land in the subbasin is controlled by a variety of industrial forestland owners. Acres by major landowner are listed in Table 4.
The Land Ownership map showing land ownership in the Coquille subbasin is based on the Western Oregon Industrial Forest Ownership coverage compiled by Oregon State University from a variety of data sources. Information on the ownership of private industrial timberlands was derived mainly from a layer assembled by Atterbury Consultants, Inc., Beaverton, OR, under contract to the Oregon Department of Forestry. Data in this layer were reported to be current as of 1991. Known inconsistencies and mistakes in the data were corrected by OSU, although others may still remain. Private land (in-holdings) held within the national forests of the Cascade Range were identified by OSU through reviews of county tax assessor maps. Ownership boundaries for federal, and local timberlands were derived from data supplied by the Oregon State Service Center for GIS. Inconsistencies between the two sources were resolved with the best judgment of OSU. Although much of the source data for this coverage has a scale of 1:24,000, the scale coverage is determined by that of the source with the most limiting scale — 1:126,720.
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Figure 8: Coquille Subbasin Ownership Status
Source: 1991 Western Oregon Industrial Forest Ownership Coverage, OSU
| Table 4: Acres by Major Owner in Coquille Subbasin | |
| Owner | Acres |
| USDI Bureau of Land Management | 153,247 |
| USDA Forest Service | 63,841 |
| State & Local Government | 8,384 |
| Champion International Corporation | 2,385 |
| Coos Head Timber | 3,259 |
| Ford, Kenneth & Hallie (Trust) | 2,041 |
| Georgia Pacific Corporation | 119,089 |
| International Paper Company | 14,191 |
| Lone Rock/Sun Studs | 11,035 |
| Menasha Corporation | 38,079 |
| Moore Mill | 19,381 |
| Murphy Company | 901 |
| Northwest Timber Affiliates | 340 |
| Rosoboro Lumber Company | 13,922 |
| Roseburg Resources | 633 |
| Silver Butte Timber Company | 279 |
| Starker Forests, Incorporated | 1,098 |
| Sparrow-Pacific Company | 333 |
| Westbrook Land & Timber | 6,921 |
| Weyerhaeuser Company | 5,639 |
| Private Non-industrial | 194,141 |
| No Data | 715 |
| Total | 659,853 |
While private landowners own about two thirds of the Coquille subbasin, they control an even greater share of the riparian zone. Ownership and stream data were combined to identify the pattern of ownership within 100 feet of all the streams in the subbasin, based on 1:100,000 scale stream data. This analysis indicates that 70 percent of this riparian zone, as defined, is in private ownership as compared to 66 percent of the entire subbasin. Private non-industrial owners have a disproportionately greater share of the riparian zone compared to private industrial owners (see Figue 2). Twenty-nine percent of the entire subbasin is in non-industrial ownership compared to 39 percent of the 100 foot riparian zone.
Figure 9: Ownership by Total Subbasin and 100 foot Riparian Zone
Source: 1991 Western Oregon Industrial Forest Ownership Coverage, OSU.
