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Two votes during a Wednesday City Council meeting prompted praise from climate activists and a word of caution from gas utility NW Natural.

Dylan Plummer On April 29, The Oregonian published an article wherein Oregon Department of Transportation spokesman Tony Andersen dismissed community concern about the agency’s postfire roadside clear-cutting as part of a misinformation campaign led by Cascadia Wildlands. That same day, arborists, landowners and the mayor of the small logging town Gates testified before the Oregon Legislature about ODOT’s gross malfeasance. Over the next few weeks, more whistleblowers came forward to publicly decry ODOT’s “hazard tree” removal project with explosive first-hand accounts of indiscr...

Kristyna Wentz-Graff Originally published on May 5, 2021 4:45 pm Opposition to post-wildfire tree removal in Oregon is growing and shifting from legislative hearings to protests among environmental activists. The Oregon Department of Transportation is removing thousands of hazard trees along roads and properties that burned in last year’s wildfires. As the project progresses, though, more and more workers have come forward with allegations of mismanagement and excessive tree cutting. Whistleblowers shared their experiences with lawmakers at legislative hearings last week, reporting dis...

As the hazardous tree-removal program overseen by the Oregon Department of Transportation goes into high gear after last fall’s devastating wildfires, many of Oregon’s most scenic and beloved areas are being transformed into post-apocalyptic stretches of roadside clearcuts, gargantuan log piles and slash.

‘It’s absolutely insane’: Swaths of trees cut after Oregon fires amid allegations of mismanagement OregonLive.com 5/1/2021 Ted Sickinger, oregonlive.com As the hazardous tree-removal program overseen by the Oregon Department of Transportation goes into high gear after last fall’s devastating wildfires, many of Oregon’s most scenic and beloved areas are being transformed into post-apocalyptic stretches of roadside clearcuts, gargantuan log piles and slash. “A person really has to come and look at it to get a sense,” said Ron Carmickle, mayor of Gates, which was ...