You Have 24 Hours to Save Oregon’s Last Old-Growth Forests
We built something to help you fight back. The comment deadline is Monday.
On February 19, the BLM announced it wants to quadruple logging on 2.5 million acres of western Oregon’s oldest forests. One billion board feet per year. 1960s-era clearcutting. No public meetings. We published the investigation. It made the rounds. Thousands of you read it, shared it, and filled the comments with stories about why these places matter to you.
And then we kept building.
Today we’re releasing a new interactive investigation that lets you see the forests on the chopping block from satellite, compare old-growth canopy with clearcuts side by side, explore every threatened place by name, and submit a public comment in under two minutes.
These trees were seedlings before the Magna Carta was signed. They have survived a thousand years of fire, wind, ice, and drought. They will not survive this without us.
Valley of the Giants. The Sandy River. Alsea Falls. Mary’s Peak. The North Fork Clackamas, 45 minutes from Portland, where old-growth forest filters the drinking wat…
