60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Portland: Including the Coast, Mount Hood, Mount St. Helens, and the Santiam River by Gerald, Paul at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 1634040848 - ISBN 13: 9781634040846 - Menasha Ridge Press - 2018 - Softcover
Bill would leave intact tax by Forest Resources Institute
Senate changes skirt controversy, but House also has to approve forest products harvest tax rates.
The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that skirts a controversy about the Oregon Forest Research Institute, a quasi-governmental agency that has come under criticism from some lawmakers and drawn scrutiny from news accounts.
The Senate voted 19-10 on Wednesday, June 23, to approve new rates for forest products harvest taxes for various programs. But the bill leaves untouched the maximum rate of $1.12 per thousand board feet that the institute can levy under state law.
It attached the rates to House Bill 2434, relating to revenue, which also makes permanent what had been temporary increases in aviation and jet fuel. Those rates would drop automatically on Jan. 1, 2022, without legislative action.
February 19 2021
Regan Fisher is a Southeast Portland resident. She argues that state towns and cities should reap the benefits of timber harvests.
Many of Oregon s small towns are cash-strapped and struggling.?
Some blame these financial woes on a decline in revenue from logging due to environmental ?protections, and they advocate for larger harvests. However, the truth is that despite ?conservation efforts, timber harvests on state and federal land have remained about the same ?for the past 25 years. So why aren t communities reaping the benefits??
The answer is that timber companies have finagled outrageously preferential tax treatment for ?themselves, allowing them to wring money from our forests without putting even the bare ?minimum back into the communities in which they operate.
February 19 2021
Regan Fisher is a Southeast Portland resident. She argues that state towns and cities should reap the benefits of timber harvests.
Many of Oregon s small towns are cash-strapped and struggling.?
Some blame these financial woes on a decline in revenue from logging due to environmental ?protections, and they advocate for larger harvests. However, the truth is that despite ?conservation efforts, timber harvests on state and federal land have remained about the same ?for the past 25 years. So why aren t communities reaping the benefits??
The answer is that timber companies have finagled outrageously preferential tax treatment for ?themselves, allowing them to wring money from our forests without putting even the bare ?minimum back into the communities in which they operate.