December 10, 2022 9:00 a.m. 

Douglas County Commissioner Tim Freeman has been re-elected as the President of the Association of O&C Counties.

Freeman won his seventh-term during the organizations annual meeting which was held December 2nd on the campus of Umpqua Community College.

In addition to Freeman, Polk County Commissioner Craig Pope was re-elected as the group’s secretary/treasurer while Coos County Commissioner Bob Main was re-elected as vice president.

Freeman said, “It is truly an honor to be re-elected once again as President of the AOCC. I am thankful for the continued support of my fellow AOCC members, who trust me in leading this crucially important work”. Freeman said, “Together with my colleagues and the staff at AOCC, we will continue to work hard to secure solutions to manage our unique congressionally designated lands.”

AOCC represents O&C timberlands in 18 western Oregon counties. Those counties have 2.1 million acres of O&C timberlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Their release said AOCC advocates for sustained yield management of O&C timberlands, as required by federal law under the O&C Act, to protect and support jobs and local economies, county services and healthy timberlands.