Gov. Kate Brown proclaims April as Oregon Arbor Month
April has been proclaimed Oregon Arbor Month.
Gov. Kate Brown made a proclamation last week establishing a monthlong recognition of trees and planting as a result of more than a year of collaboration with nonprofit organizations and state agencies, but its timing follows statewide wildfires that burned millions of trees. Because trees are vital to our individual and communal well-being and future prosperity and because all Oregonians have a stake in future health and replenishment of our urban and rural forests there should be more than a single day or week to participate in tree-related activities, reflect on the vital contribution of trees on our individual and communal well-being and honor and celebrate the tree stewardship of our local leaders and volunteers in Oregon s more than 60 Tree Cities a Tree Campuses USA, the proclamation reads.
April proclaimed Arbor Month in Oregon
Oregon Dept. of Forestry
Portlanders plant trees in the Roseway Park Blocks
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) The first week in April was just not enough time to show how much Oregonians appreciate trees. So Gov. Kate Brown has proclaimed all of April as Oregon Arbor Month, allowing plenty of time for all the tree-related activities and commemorative plantings people want.
“I appreciate Governor Brown declaring April 2021 as Oregon Arbor Month, in recognition of the essential role trees play in the lives of Oregonians,” said Oregon State Forester Peter Daugherty. “There has long been a broad understanding of the economic and environmental benefits of our forestlands, but this proclamation helps highlight the equally vital social benefits that both rural and urban forests provide to the people of Oregon.”
Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up the price.
Updated on Jan 01, 2021;
Published on Dec 31, 2020
The 400 residents of Wheeler, Oregon, where muddy logging runoff filled the town’s reservoirs. (Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian) Brooke Herbert/The Oregonian
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On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that logging had devastated a creek that provided part of the town’s drinking water supply.
A timber company had clear-cut thousands of trees along the creek, leaving only a thin strip standing between the town’s drinking water and recently flattened land strewned with debris. A single row of trees was left on either side to protect it from mud, herbicides and summer sun. After many of those trees were bowled over by wind, the creek flow dropped so
Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price. ProPublica 1/1/2021 by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive
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On a damp night in November 2019, dozens of residents packed into the local firehouse in Corbett, Oregon, a town about 30 miles outside of Portland. Water manager Jeff Busto told the crowd that logging had devastated a creek that provided part of the town’s drinking water supply.
This Leelanau County town was originally settled in 1852 on the west side of Grand Traverse Bay, in a little inlet now known as Omena Bay.
Reverend Peter Daugherty had moved his Indian mission away from Old Mission to this new area, which he called “New Mission”. In 1858 the community received its first post office, and a few years later (1877), the town – now also a railway stop on the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad - was re-named “Omena P.O.”.
Daugherty built a Presbyterian church which he intended as the hub of town. The church still stands, as you will see in the photo gallery below.