Current Issue :: 2007 October 12, 2007 :: Act Now: Save Oregon’s forests
Stop federal plans to clear-cut Oregon’s old-growth
forests
The Bush administration has announced plans to significantly increase
logging on 2.6 million acres of public land in western Oregon by
clear-cutting old-growth forests and reducing protections for salmon-bearing
creeks and streams, according to the Sierra Club.
Rising out of an agreement between the timber industry and the Bush administration, the Bureau of Land Management's 'Western Oregon Plan Revision' is the gravest threat to Oregon's ancient forests in years.
The draft Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR), a new plan for 2.6 million acres of public forests managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), will mean the loss of ancient forests from the northern Willamette Valley to southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains.
This would be an unprecedented and unsustainable increase in logging Oregon's last old-growth forests and by the BLM's own admission will open up currently protected streamside forests and “old-growth reserves” to new clear-cutting.
It is time for Congress to rein in the Bush administration and prevent them from threatening our old-growth forests, clean water and wild salmon.
What can you do?
Ask your congressman and your senators (see below) to use Congress’ “power of the purse” to prevent the Bush administration from spending money to log old-growth forests and to stop the BLM from selling off Oregon’s ancient forests.
Urge Gov. Kulongoski to reject the BLM’s Western Oregon Plan Revision and ask him to stand up to the Bush administration and prevent them from logging Oregon’s old-growth forests and threatening clean water and wild salmon. Call the governor at 503-378-4582 or send an email.
Oregon U.S. Senators
Ron Wyden |
Gordon Smith |
Oregon U.S. Representatives
David Wu |
Greg Walden |
Earl Blumenauer |
Peter DeFazio |
Darlene Hooley |
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