Jason Gonzales, with Oregon Wild, talks about the Oregon Forest Practices Act, (OFPA) and how it fails to protect Oregon's forest ecosystems. We have the weakest logging rules for private lands in the Pacific Northwest. Jason details the economic and environmental problems with the OFPA. In the second half of this conversation, Jason talks about three (or six) ballot measures that are proposed to be in front of voters November 2020, and how you can help.

Ballot initiatives described here, with good information on Oregon forests: https://forestwaters.org/

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection. Sign up to help this process: https://healthywatershed.org/

Jason referred to these Oregonian news articles describing broken legislative process:

https://projects.oregonlive.com/polluted-by-money/

And the newest from the Oregonian:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/timber-interests-propose-three-pro-logging-ballot-measures.html?fbclid=IwAR3VITHmoXhqMt0glZxJzU9ijYxRhljqRvnDTkr-UWtt2ZWUefHFDkIiXlY

Don't miss this movie describing the problems with logging regulations on private industrial forest land:

Behind the Emerald Curtin: https://youtu.be/Q0j_Msmz44M

The great work by Oregon Wild, Jason's organization, seen here: http://oregonwild.org/

Song at the end is "Song For Oregon" by our own Marnie Albritten when she was with the band Girls Can Jam.

If you want it, send me an email and I'll send it to you. francis at mydfn dot net