The BLM just announced plans to liquidate a billion board feet of timber per year from Oregon's last old-growth forests.

They want to decimate 2.5 million acres of one of America's most pristine ecosystems. Valley of the Giants. The Sandy River. Mary's Peak. Two-hundred-foot Douglas fir that were standing before this country existed.

They want to destroy every protection in the current management plans. Gut wildlife protections. Shrink streamside buffers to 25 feet – a death sentence for endangered salmon. Push harvest back to 1960s levels, before the Endangered Species Act even existed.

They've given the public 30 days to respond.

There will be no public meetings.

A billion board feet a year. From forests that store more carbon per acre than any terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. Forests people have fought for decades to protect. And they're trying to ram it through before anyone notices.

The comment deadline is March 23. Share this post. Stand with Oregon and our national forests. No one is coming to save these places. It's up to us.