Yuge Call to Action III 3/23/2026

Ephesians 6:10-11 (King James Version)

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Get you statements or phone calls into the BLM by midnight tonight even if it is one sentence so they know there are people wanting to have their forests back. The other side is extremely motivated since worshiping the forests is their religion and the heart of their beliefs.

Trump needs a lot of help on this one since it goes completely against the brainwashing the Three Pillars (Academia, Media, and DNC) has been pushing for fifty years. They have been pushing the lumber industry is evil and destroying the planet. This begins with the Spotted Owl and endangered species will die if man does not stop cutting trees. It has been some of the most effective marketing in history especially focused on women’s nurturing instincts.

Men understand the need to work the forests to make it healthy which may not look nice at first but will look better later. Women want it to look like a rose garden all the time but is not the way forests are managed. Sierra Club sends out pictures of beautiful animals and trees they want women to be emotionally drawn to and put them in graves whether fact or fiction.

The reality is you need to cut down weed species like Lodgepole Pine which grows fast and densely choking out more valuable trees which grows slower and needs space. Healthy forests are replanted and thinned on regular intervals with fire breaks in roads to stop massive fires.

There are ways to manage forests which may be distasteful for aesthetics but make the forests stronger and healthier in the long term.

Healthy forests make for healthy wildlife environments for hunting and fishing which also need to be managed against predators which is not being done today. It is time for Oregon to break the shackles on its massive God given natural resources. It has five hundred years of harvest without planting another tree and forever if you do. The species which will become the healthiest will be the people living in the counties which President Trump will be helping become self sufficient for decades to come.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime for Oregonians. They live in some of the most beautiful lands and forests anywhere in the world. They have become tinder boxes waiting for a spark and the BLM is offering a chance to make them healthy and vibrant like they were fifty years ago. Write or call the BLM today and make that opportunity a reality. Call before midnight and let your voice be heard.

There are two types of people in Oregon. Those who want to worship the trees and those who want to be stewards of the forests and manage them properly. Unfortunately , the tree worshipers are killing the forests.

Pray for Oregon’s forests

Bonus contribution by Guest Writer Bob Zybach for Lane County Commissioner

The "Environmental Movement" can reasonably be said to have begun in 1962 with Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring. It became required reading among my like-minded high school classmates and our older associates, and highly recommended by some of the "cool" teachers. The 1963 Clean Air Act was followed by the 1964 Wilderness Act, the 1965 Water Quality Act, and the 1967 Air Quality Act. Then, on December 22, 1969, Congress -- whose members included about 60% lawyers -- passed NEPA, the National Environmental Protection Act. On the same day, less than 50 miles away, another group of lawyers were incorporating the Environmental Law Institute (ELI). A Virulent Disease Two years later, in December 1971, Bill Hagenstein wrote an essay for Southern Timberman magazine titled "

Environmentalitis: A New Epidemic." At that time Bill was nationally well known in the forestry and timber communities as long-time Vice-President and spokesperson for 1 Zybach DRAFT 20260320 the Industrial Forestry Association (IFA), a position he had held since the organization's creation in 1949.

With his tall stature, photographic memory, booming voice, and constant stream of "goddammits" and other profanities -- coupled with his encyclopedic knowledge of forestry -- Bill made a memorable and persuasive figure during his hundreds of Congressional testimonies, regular industry speeches, and otherwise daily Portland business meetings.

Bill was concerned about the political direction the environmental movement had taken, and particularly the perceived danger of public indoctrination into destructive actions.

He wrote that the "new epidemic enironmentalitis" was "a virulent disease and if not controlled could consume us. It is the vehicle on which the poison pen-men of preservation propaganda are speeding through the countryside calling names, making charges and hit-and-running by dramatic and graphic TVing, photo-pressing and word-picturing the aftermath of the timber harvest."

Bill was particularly concerned that the successful advocates of the new Wilderness creations, "where man is a visitor who does not remain," were now setting their sights on clearcuts and logging roads that were despoiling their "experiences of solitude and quiet."

Bill's beliefs were deeply felt and based on significant personal experience. He further charged that: "They never interpret that harvest in terms of homes, furniture, magazines, pictures, tissues and all the other essentials which come principally and in some cases only from wood. They show the eggshells, but not the omelet. They show the slash, but not the jobs. They show the disturbance to the land by logging, road-building and slash disposal, but never the tree planting, the thinning, the genetics, the fertilizing and the healthy watersheds and beautiful countryside which trees make on each acre for the long years between their harvests."

In his essay, Bill was especially upset with how language was openly being changed in Orwellian fashion to turn the public and their political representatives against logging and forestry, and particularly the bastardization of forest industry's foundational concepts:

"Environmentalitis is in error on many counts. One is that its exponents have tried to snatch the mantle of conservation away from the forestry profession which started it in the United States. And, too many people trying to stem environmentalitis . . . have quit calling themselves conservationists. Yet they dignify the anti-forestry forces by that term."

And: "They use the worn-out old cliches of timber baron days by regurgitating about "greedy lumbermen," "nasty profits," "stump manufacturers," "wanton wastrels" and "timber miners." They never identify the men who make the forest industry go as tree planters and growers, tree protectors, employers, home-builders, tax-payers, multiple-use managers and responsible citizens in everything they do."

Oregon Wild. The first time I remember personally meeting Andy Kerr was in the late 1980s or so. He was a guest lecturer at one of the forestry classes I was taking at Oregon State University (OSU) and showing a large photograph of Mt. Hood with some clouds near its base. Andy informed us that "they" had drawn the clouds on the photo to "hide clearcuts."

In subsequent years, and until the present time, Kerr developed into a well-known spokesperson and writer for the environmental community. He still writes a fairly regular newsletter titled "Andy Kerr's Public Lands Blog,” and lately he has been reminiscing about those early years -- which forms the basis of the following accounts and quotes.

Sometime within a few years of Hagenstein's essay, and unrelated to that publication, Andy notes that "three Oregon conservationists came together to found the Oregon Wilderness

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