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LOCAL JOBS. There is an immediate need for more than a thousand full-time, family wage Lane County jobs in manufacturing, forestry, and trucking based on long-term sales and service contracts for salvaging and actively restoring our public forests. |
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WILDFIRE PREVENTION. A return to active management of our public forests and rapid extinguishment of all wildfires, as successfully demonstrated through most of the 20th century by earlier generations, will again produce much safer, far more productive, and beautiful forests for future generations of people and wildlife. |
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FUNDING FOR SCHOOLS, ROADS & POLICE. The 1897 Organic Act, the 1905 creation of our National Forests, and the 1937 O&C Lands Act require the active management of our public forests -- by law -- to be maintained for the benefit of the American people, future generations, and specifically for local county schools, roads, and police. |
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OLD-GROWTH RESTORATION. Since 2000, more than 700,000 acres of public old-growth forests have been lost to wildfires. Tens of thousands of those acres and tens of thousands acres more of plantations have been lost in Lane County. Research and planning are needed to save and restore these cultural treasures for future generations. |