January 13, 2025 3:30 a.m.

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

A county release said AOCC membership unanimously chose Freeman for his ninth term in the role, at the organization’s annual meeting held December 13th in Salem.

In addition to Freeman, Polk County Commissioner Craig Pope was elected to his first term as Vice President, and Klamath County Commissioner Derrick DeGroot was elected to his first term as Secretary/Treasurer.

Freeman said, “I am truly honored to be elected to my ninth term as President of AOCC. I am grateful for the support of my fellow AOCC members, who trust me in leading this crucially important work”. Freeman said, “Together with my colleagues and the staff of AOCC, we will continue to work hard to secure solutions to manage our unique congressionally designated lands”.

AOCC represents the unique O&C timberlands in 18 western Oregon counties. Those counties host 2.1 million acres of O&C timberlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The AOCC advocates for sustained yield management of O&C timberlands as required by the 1937 O&C Act, to protect and support jobs and local economies, county services and healthy timberlands.

For more information on AOCC go to: http://www.oandc.org/