Speak up for southern Oregon streams!

In southern Oregon, industrial timber companies on private forestlands can cut down trees much closer to streams than in the rest of western Oregon. Cutting trees near streams means less shade and warmer, dirtier water, which can harm salmon and put clean water at risk.

There's no excuse to exclude the Siskiyou – the science doesn't support it, the law doesn't support it, and our streams and salmon can't wait another decade. Join KS Wild's Rogue Riverkeeper program and Climate program in asking the Board of Forestry to improve protections for southern Oregon streams!

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Request for Board of Forestry to improve protections for southern Oregon streams!

Dear Chair Imeson,

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Thank you for the opportunity to add my voice in support of addressing stream buffer standards in southern Oregon. Currently, the region is left out of new regulations to improve protections for streams that support salmon, steelhead, and bull trout. I remain concerned that the Siskiyou region will continue to be left with a less protective standard than the rest of western Oregon.
 
I respectfully request that future Board meetings with substantive agenda items relating to the protection of Siskiyou streams be held in the impacted region, specifically in Grants Pass, Medford, or Ashland. The last Board meeting on the Siskiyou that was held there occurred in 2016. Meeting locations in Salem are a significant and ongoing barrier for locals and those most impacted to full access and participation in the Board’s process.

I appreciate your consideration of my request to hold Board meetings with the Siskiyou streamside protections issue on the agenda in the impacted region. Please don’t leave southern Oregon streams behind.

Sincerely, [Your information here]