The Daily Bray 9/26/2025

Making Oregon Red

1 John 2:1 (King James Version)

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

Fifty years ago, Oregon was one of the wealthiest states per capita in the country. It would be even more wealthy today if not for one reason, the Sierra Club stopped the most environmentally friendly industry in the world so they could virtue signal to their San Fran and NY friends. Oregon had the top ten schools in the country as well as a thriving college and university system.

Eugene was a boomtown with a dozen lumber mills including one of the largest in the country which was Weyerhaeuser with its paper mill attached which was fed by lumber waste. Downtown Eugene was a thriving town which had some of the nicest furniture and clothing stores anywhere in the country.

Oregon fed the housing boom across America since the Oregon forests provided the finest Douglas Fir which is known for its strength, ease of building, and beauty. It is natural for constructing strong homes. Everyone who lived in Oregon had a good paying job and many made fortunes from the lumber industry while making the forests healthy and fire resistant.

The state had the lowest taxes of any state in the union. Timber revenues paid all of the schools, universities, and infrastructure saving taxpayers having to pay for these programs from their payroll taxes or sales tax. Forest fires were stopped in the forests as most of the fires started within short distances from logging operations which would have forest firefighting equipment on site and most fires were extinguished before they grew into major fires.

Managed forests with clear cuts and fire breaks as well as fire roads made fires easier to extinguish as well as well managed forests stop forest fires before they start. The mismanagement of Oregon’s forests today are a tinder box waiting to ignite into a raging furnace sterilizing these lands so nothing grows there for decades even if the state would allow replanting of those scorched lands. It is costing taxpayers a half a billion a year to extinguish these pollution belching fires.

Every politician in Oregon needs to run on a platform of bringing back the lumber industry and becoming stewards of our forests and its abundant resources rather than worshipers of the trees. The Spotted Owl studies were frauds since they did not reveal the Spotted Owl was being hunted by the Barred Owl meaning setting aside land made no difference to the survival of the bird. You could evacuate the entire state and the Spotted Owl would still be endangered due to its being eaten by the Barred Owl.

In addition, there are counter studies showing the Spotted Owl actually does better in second growth forests where loggers can manage the Barred Owl. The Endangered Species Act has been abused by the Sierra Club and dirt worshipers to kill the lumber industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of tax dollars to help Oregonians live more comfortably.

Global Warming was used in the same way by the Sierra Club and radical Democrats to shut down the forests as well as the energy industry.

Twenty years ago, Metro convinced Portland there needed to be a new water system pumping water from the Willamette and spent billions running water throughout Portland since they claimed there would be no snow on Mount Hood and all the reservoirs would dry up.

There has been record snows in the last five years and no droughts in Oregon like they predicted. In addition, they found three times the water in the Cascade Watershed than was previously reported. The two things Oregon has plenty of are water and trees and both are locked up by the Democrats who are slaves to the Sierra Club who have no problem enslaving taxpayers to their radical earth cult.

Oregon’s forests and resources are a layup for the Republican Party to clean house in Salem. Oregon needs to sell their ten thousand square miles of land to the people and make them profitable again. It will make the forests healthier as well as giving young people lower-cost land and housing to give their families something real.

Oregonians will be healthier, the forests will be healthier, the rivers will be healthier, only the politician's pockets will be unhealthier which are who are standing between wealth and poverty for the average Oregonian. It is time to use the forests to finally turn the state Red.

Pray for Revival