I hope you can appreciate my interest in, and my advocacy for, your continued advancement of S 1784.
Increased clearcutting on public land is not the answer.
With your efforts, with Congressmen DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden, I think we can reach a resolution.
For these reasons, I believe Senate Bill 1784 is the only politically viable solution for managing these lands currently...
I encourage this committee to increase its support of science and local community-based collaborative groups.
As we take a look at the amount of funding and the funding stress on the forest service, to move to the areas of highest...
The Wyden bill will NOT fix the counties' financial problems; it will NOT meaningfully reduce unemployment; it will NOT ...
Increased logging--especially clearcutting--is incompatible with climate mitigation and other public values.
The Wyden bill has some serious drafting problems.
The Wyden bill severely limits citizen lawsuits.
The sad fact is the current management in place on Oregon and California Railroad lands (O & C) is essentially non-manag...