Oregon is Dying III 2/24/2026

Romans 14:11 (King James Version)

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

It has been established beyond a shadow of a doubt the Oregon forests are dying and at a greater rate than anyone is admitting. These forests have been turned from healthy productive natural resources to overgrown tinderboxes waiting for a spark to make them into raging wildfires traveling up to seventy miles per hour destroying and killing anything in their paths.

This is a hidden crisis from Oregonians since it has not hit an urban center yet and just like the Palisades it can destroy thousands of homes as easily as destroying hundreds of square miles of forests. There is absolutely no motivation for the Communist Party to address this crisis since they consider these firetraps as a victory to the cult who wants to worship the trees and creatures of the forests.

Fortunately, the Bureau of Land Management wants to address these mismanaged forests and wants to bring proper management to them. They have proposed a plan to take the old O&C properties in western Oregon and start to rehabilitate these forests. They are proposing and actual reversal of the damages done to these lands and bring hope to a hopeless situation.

O&C land is Oregon and California Railroad land which was given to the railroad for building a railway between Portland and San Francisco. It is a checkerboard of land which goes which the Fed gave 12,800 acres for every mile of railroad laid. This land was supposed to be sold to settlers however not all of it was sold and 2.4 million acres were left unsold which eventually was turned over to the Bureau of Land Management to manage the resources.

The BLM is in the process of making these O&C lands available for logging and forest rehabilitation in an aggressive way to stop forest fire danger. The proposal is to begin harvesting these overgrown forests as an emergency order to take out the dead and dying trees while thinning and harvesting timber to restimulate the lumber industry. This will include forest breaks, clear cuts, and fire roads to drastically lower the wildfire danger and rehabilitate these dying forests.

The best part of the plan is 75% of the revenues will go to the counties which the O&C lands exist. The main counties would be Lane, Douglas, Jackson, Coos and Jefferson which will help pay for schools, roads, fire, and police while hopefully lowering taxes to the people. This will also bring thousands of jobs to these counties and stimulate the rural towns for decades to come.

If they began harvesting the recommended 3 Billion board feet of timber this would generate around $1.8 billion dollars per year in timber royalties which prices are at all time lows and would double or triple that amount in housing boom times. This would be timber harvested in America by Oregonians to be shipped throughout the country and perhaps the world.

The miraculous part is after ten years you would have the healthiest forests this state has seen in fifty years with abundant wildlife and the cleanest air/water with no fires threatening the forests or urban areas and more board footage than you started with. The forests are a gold mine which keeps making more gold. This is a brilliant plan to bring common sense management of this God given resource to Oregon for man’s stewardship.

The O&C plan can be a model for all of Oregon since these lands represent less than 10% of the state and federal lands in the state. These forests could become the healthiest and most abundant forest in the world while making the state an economic powerhouse using smart resource management to maximize both the health and yield for Oregon. These resources are so plentiful rather than people paying taxes they should be receiving shares of the royalties at the end of the year.

Every Oregonian needs to push the O&C plan all the way to victory for Oregon. This may be the only way to actually save the Spotted Owl.

Pray for the forests