Pesticides and Herbicides are sprayed indiscreetly in our forests, fields and some communities. The harms of these poisons are underestimated by the big corporations that produce them and they pay out billions in advertising convincing us they are safe. BUT THEY ARE NOT SAFE.....

Abstract

Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon's timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing so.

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.

Nearby tribe calls on state, federal agencies to end a “decade-long pattern of reckless violations”

Stella-Jones began operating a wood treatment facility in Sheridan, Ore., in 2013. The facility was designated a Superfund site in 2001 and underwent an extensive cleanup after pentachlorophenol pollution caused by a previous owner, Taylor Lumber and Treating. (Amanda Loman/InvestigateWest)

Published Feb 12, 2025 By NEWSWEEK

"Dangerous" levels of nitrates have been found in drinking water in eastern Oregon because of factory farms in the area, a report by Food & Water Watch said.