Please send letters opposing the transfer of ownership of Oregon’s first state forest and the State’s last remaining public forest containing old-growth to the State Land Board, c/o the Department of State Lands, by Sunday, November 29, 5:00 p.m.  Letters can be sent via DSL’s online form or via email.

OICR refuses the notion of providing “feedback” on a proposal whose aims, goals, intentions, conditions, and processes we reject entirely.  According to DSL’s website, letters from the public will be used to “assist DSL and OSU [Oregon State University] in identifying areas where additional information, discussion, or consideration may be needed.”  We urge writers to oppose in no uncertain terms the very idea of cutting down one of our last old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest and, indeed, in the world under the guise of “research” and the compromised process that made this idea acceptable in the first place.  We're simply out of forests and out of time.