Greenwashing highlights corporate efforts to present fossil fuels, toxic chemicals, or industrial agriculture as environmentally friendly through deceptive advertising, often targeting consumer, regulatory and public perception to prevent stronger climate action. 

Lack of campaign finance limits has enabled the timber industry to wield significant influence over state politics through large, unregulated donations. This allowed industry groups to heavily influence legislation, secure tax breaks, and shape environmental policies. 

The Bureau of Land Management is moving to update management plans for 2.5 million acres of public federal forests in western Oregon to significantly increase logging, aiming for production levels not seen since the 1960’s, further degrading the environment, while “maximizing timber production”, which would wreak havoc on local communities, water quality, and biodiversity. 

• • Federal policy would affect Private Forest Accord 2022 agreement, which protects over 10 million acres of private forestland via increased logging on adjacent federal lands, undermining the habitat connectivity or environmental goals the PFA was designed to protect in areas where federal and private lands are interspersed. 

Sacrificing the environment for economic gain to create jobs, boost local economies, and increase tax revenue for counties. This paves the way for big corporations to decimate the environment through Amazon warehouses, data centers, large industrial factory farming, and timber clear cutting. It is possible to have a healthy and robust economy, while protecting nature — communities don’t have to choose between the two. Citizens don’t want to live or visit communities that are polluted, decimated and destroyed. 

• Measure 20-373 promotes local democracy to protect our watershed and environment by the people who actually live in the community.