Please Speak Up for Our State Forests!

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View The Department’s draft plan that will turn roughly 55 percent of the state’s productive working forest land into a wildlife preserve – we know this approach hasn’t worked to save species like the northern spotted owl in the past.

That’s why we need you to speak out. Tell your story now!

Dear [Lawmaker],

$q1::. As a proud Oregonian, I'm urging you to please slow down the development of a Habitat Conservation Plan for State Forests in order to establish a more balanced alternative that takes economic and social values into account.

Timber harvests produce more than just money for the Department and county budgets. For every dollar ODF produces from a harvest, at least one more dollar is generated for local small businesses. $q2::. Not to mention, for every million board feet of harvested timber, 11 local and living wage jobs are created.

$q3::. Unless the Department changes course, Oregon’s state forests will go the way of the state’s federal forests – becoming unmanaged, overstocked forests infested with insects and disease, further contributing to the state’s wildfire crisis while worsening timber-dependent rural counties’ ability to provide essential services. We’ve learned from the past that significant reductions in public timber harvests subject surrounding communities to poverty and decline.

Oregonians need a more balanced approach that won’t decimate ODF’s budget and rural communities at the same time.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
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