Timber tax cuts cost Oregon towns billions. Then clear-cuts polluted their water and drove up the price.
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 Facebook Share Twitter Share 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 tow...