Lane County issues no yard-tree removal permit for ordinary residential lots. Commercial harvesting on forestland requires advance notification to the Oregon Department of Forestry under the Forest Practices Act (ORS 527.670). Forest-zone dwellings must maintain fuel-break clearances instead.
In unincorporated Lane County there is no permit to remove an ordinary tree from a residential yard. For forestland, the Oregon Forest Practices Act controls: ORS 527.670 requires an operator, timber owner or landowner to notify the State Forester before commencing a forest operation, with the notification filed in advance (the Oregon Department of Forestry requires it at least 15 days before harvest). On land zoned Impacted Forest (F-2) under Lane Code Chapter 16, dwelling owners must clear and maintain fuel-break safety zones — a primary safety zone of at least 30 feet — with trees spaced and pruned rather than a removal permit. Riparian setbacks under LC 16.253 restrict removing indigenous trees.
Failure to file a required forest-operation notification violates ORS 527 and Forest Practice rules and may draw a citation from the State Forester. Fuel-break and riparian violations are enforced under Lane Code Chapter 16.
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