A Portland man wants the Oregon Board of Forestry to help craft the state's position on federal wilderness.

A resident of the tiny Lane County community of Deadwood hopes board members provide better notification of logging in areas where homes are at risk of landslides.

And an Astoria resident wants state foresters to create larger buffers for streams during timber harvests.

An advisory group received these and almost 100 other recommendations about what the Oregon Board of Forestry should do in 2006.

The advisory board reviewed the submissions Friday and compared them with existing plans, then organized the recommendations.

The forestry board will discuss the recommendations at its Oct. 28 meeting.

Sorting the recommendations will be a challenge.

The ideas include board-member salaries, invasive-species prevention, wildfire risk management, and game animal habitat improvements.

Bruno Meyer, a timberland manager in Merlin, told the board, "Continue to approve only rules that are based on good verifiable science and that have a reasonable cost-to-benefit ratio. The same folks that have gridlocked the U.S. Forest Service are now diligently lobbying for more rules on private lands and are not going to stop at the end of this year."

David Eisler of the Siuslaw Watershed Council said, "I would hope that the board will readdress the herbicide issue in light of the most recent scientific findings on sublethal effects on not only salmonids but other aquatic species."

John Belton of Sandy wrote, "If forestry is to contribute to the future Oregon economy, we must do a much better job of marketing QUALITY wood products. Why is the industry interested in growing large volumes of fast-growing wood fiber (low quality) and then reconstituting it into an engineered product with resins?"

State Forester Marvin Brown said that he was pleased with the thought and work put into the responses but worried about the scope of the comments.

"One of the hazards we have to be cautious of is not getting ourselves overcommitted," he said.

The board plans to have a similar public-input process every year.