Center for Biological Diversity: Senator Wyden’s O&C Lands Bill Would Unravel More Than Two Decades of Progress in Managing Northwest Forests

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–November 26, 2013.  Following is a statement from Randi Spivak, director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s public lands program, on Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D.-Ore.) O&C legislative draft proposal on management of 2.1 million acres of public forests in western Oregon:

“Senator Wyden’s draft bill will hurt forests, watersheds and species. Our streams will get dirtier, our views will get uglier, and species will be pushed further toward extinction. The senator’s draft legislation would result…