Oregon forests are critical allies for clean water and a healthy climate. Forests have a unique capacity to sequester and store carbon, making them among the best tools we have for mitigating the climate crisis. They help protect our water, making it clean to drink for communities throughout the state. They support healthy wildlife habitat and rural economies. But these benefits are lost when forests are managed solely for corporate profit.

Campbell Global – an international timber investment company based in Portland – currently owns over 150,000 acres of Western Oregon forests. Campbell Global manages these forests as industrial timber plantations, which are a prime example of profit-based extraction that harms ecosystems and communities. Short-rotation clearcuts in timber plantations decrease the forest’s natural ability to store carbon and produce clean cold water. They damage drinking water, primarily in rural communities who are already being hit first and worst by the climate crisis.