A pact between timber and conservation groups to work together


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From the President
Today, I traveled to Salem to participate in a press conference with Oregon Governor Kate Brown announcing a landmark new agreement ([link removed]) between the timber industry and conservation groups including Wild Salmon Center.

For 25 years, we conservationists have been battling the timber industry over forest practices in Oregon.
Western Oregon rivers hold the greatest concentrations of healthy wild salmon and steelhead stocks remaining south of Canada. Science clearly tells us that we need to modernize our forest practices in Oregon, to properly protect forests around rivers and streams and the wild fish that call them home. 

Today, we are plotting a new cooperative path to update timber practices and protect salmon. 

Based on today’s agreement, the Oregon Legislature will take up a package that includes new provisions on aerial pesticide spray, Rogue-Siskiyou stream rules, and support for a comprehensive habitat conservation plan for private timberlands in Oregon. Over the next 18 months, we will work to complete that  plan. When completed, these will be the most important protections for salmon and steelhead on Oregon private timberland in 25 years.

I want to applaud this new spirit of collaboration, and thank the Governor for stewarding this agreement. I want to also acknowledge the long, hard work of our staff, particularly Bob Van Dyk, to bring about this pact. And we need to thank the citizens and communities throughout Oregon that have spoken up in favor of new protections.

There’s still much work to be done to secure needed habitat protection for salmon. But we are prepared to work in good faith for a strong plan that will stand for decades to come.

Guido Rahr
President and Chief Executive

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While today's announcement is a major step forward, there's still much work to be done to ensure Oregon's salmon, clean water and coastal communities are adequately protected. Help support this ongoing work by making a gift today ([link removed]). 

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The mission of the Wild Salmon Center is to promote the conservation and sustainable use of wild salmon ecosystems across the Pacific Rim.

Photo credit (top to bottom): coho courtesy Alamy; Guido Rahr portrait by Brian Kelley; Group photo with Gov. Kate Brown (front, center), Emily Vaughan-Klickman/Crag Law Center.





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