Ron Wyden

I hope you can appreciate my interest in, and my advocacy for, your continued advancement of S 1784.

We applaud Senator Wyden for explicitly recognizing drinking water source protection and support efforts to expand these designations to additional areas.

The public overwhelmingly supports protection of both mature and old growth forests on public lands.

The Wyden bill shifts the management emphasis of public forests from public values like clean drinking water, recovery of endangered species, storing carbon, and maintaining quality of life toward an outdated and destructive emphasis on…

In my home state of Wisconsin there is a grassroots effort beginning to take shape called the North East Wisconsin Collaborative.

I would like to congratulate Senator Wyden for his work and endless energy for striking a balance.

Adequate timber harvest levels must be distributed throughout Western Oregon, including the drier southwest Oregon forests, if we are to maintain the health of the forests and keep the remaining industry infrastructure.

Legislation to double logging on our federal lands... is sure to reignite public sentiments and cause social strife.

It's way too soon for the pendulum to swing back and erase the environmental progress that has just begun.

We support efforts by Chairman Wyden, Senator Crapo and others to address this issue in a way that both ends the disruptive practice of fire transfers and provides resources to manage and restore our forests so they are more resilient to…

The current paralysis can't continue, either--not without causing even more pain for folks who could be making a good wage.

There is no reason that a sustainable compromise cannot be forged that creates jobs for Oregonians, protects the current mill infrastructure, sets counties on a sustainable economic path, protects our forests both public and private from…

We hope that Senator Wyden will be willing in the coming weeks to discuss possible ways to increase the certainty of achieving the outcomes intended by his bill.

The Wyden bill excludes the public from participating in the management of their public lands.

Congress should not step in to eliminate this important science-based conservation program.

It also seems to make sense to me, and as one that's, like Senator Wyden, for a lot of years together took a lot of slings and arrows not only in this hearing room, but all across the country, that we stay out of the areas that are highly…

The Forest Jobs and Recreation Act introduced by Senator Tester is a good example of bringing conservation interests and timber interests together.

Yet, that proposal has already received a veto threat from President Obama here in Washington and is threatening to reignite the timber wars back home in Oregon.

The new relationship between the counties and the Federal Government means that the twenty-first century relationship is not just going to be about cutting trees.

We applaud Senator Wyden for his initial efforts to streamline procedural requirements by the creation of a programmatic EIS.

The Wyden bill will exacerbate climate change by accelerating the transfer of carbon from the forest to the atmosphere.

Based on guidance from Senator Wyden's staff, to determine how Northern Spotted Owl Critical Habitat would be evaluated in the formulation of the O&C Land Grant Act of 2013.

The BLM provided extensive technical assistance to his staff as they worked to develop the bill

Any new National Forest policy should recognize the exceptional value of roadless areas and old growth forests.

I think that set of comments by Congressman DeFazio ought to leave people plenty encouraged.