From Mt. Hood to Crater Lake, from the Oregon coast to the Wallowa mountains, Oregon is a state of natural wonders. Native Oregonians choose to stay and raise their families with access to the beautiful places they grew up visiting, and many new-comers came to live in a place where so many communities have equally easy access to the ocean and the mountains. Smart land use planning has protected Oregon’s farmlands from the orchards of Hood River Valley to the Willamette Valley vineyards.
But our great landscape is not without threats. The hills surrounding majestic Mt. Hood are crisscross with roads and clearcuts. Oregon has a lower percentage of its land protected as wilderness than either Washington or California. The deceptive ballot measure 37 has torn new loopholes in our land use planning system, threatening hundreds of thousands of acres of coastal forests and rural farmland with subdivisions and gravel pits.
Environment Oregon is working to protect Oregon’s landscape by establishing new protections for our 2 million acres of national forests, protect special places like Mt. Hood with wilderness designation, and protect our forests and farmlands from sprawling subdivisions.
Protect Oregon: Save Our Forests and Farms
Out-of-state timber companies and developers are rushing to turn 750,000 acres of Oregon’s forests and farm land into subdivisions and industrial developments because of measure 37. Environment Oregon is working to pass a law protecting Oregon’s landscape.
Save Our Wild Forests
Environment Oregon is working to protect nearly 2 million acres of our national forests –and nearly 60 million acres nationally.
Protect Mt. HoodThe famous snow-capped peak of Mt. Hood is an Oregon icon, home to forests, lakes, and rivers that provide not just recreational destinations, but also drinking water sources, for millions of Oregonians. Environment Oregon is working to protect 125,000 acres on and around Mt. Hood as wilderness.
