tion are now at risk of collapse. Thus our en-
tire civilization is at risk of collapse and a
community’s future survival may depend on
essential local resources that are available to
it.
Here in the Northwest, the intact native
forests and what they provide for us (clean
water, salmon, soils and carbon storage bio-
mes like no other) are going to be our
lifeboats on a sinking ship.
Now, when some agency like the Oregon
Bureau of Land Management is damaging
and destroying these lifeboats, they are
threatening the future survival of our commu-
nity as well as the survival of our own fami-
lies.
However, if the BLM, Forest Service,
Oregon Board of Forestry and Oregon’s tim-
ber barons enact ecological based restoration
on ALL the lands they have damaged instead
of continuing the destruction and poisoning
they are currently perpetrating, we may con-
sider them benign. They are unlikely to do
this voluntarily however.
Any entity or individual who threatens the
survival of our community or our family now
or into the future must be stopped, reversed or
abolished. If our U.S. representatives, sena-
tors, governors and other elected officials
don’t understand how dire the current situa-
tion is and are not actively opposing the de-
struction and preparing communities for the
inevitable hardships, then they need to be re-
moved from office.
Shannon Wilson
Eugene
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