Tag: Logging
Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price.
From the Wire January 1, 2021
Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from logging-related contamination. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive Thursday, December…
What happened when a public institute became a de facto lobbying arm of the timber industry
From the Wire August 4, 2020
Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon’s timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing…
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