Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
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Old-growth forests are key to slowing #climate change and to protecting endangered species. In #Oregon, logging in Bureau of Land Management-controlled areas has continued at a steady pace despite Biden’s promise to protect these forests.

#News #Biden #Environment #Sustainability #Forest #EndangeredSpecies #ClimateChange #Carbon #Trees

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A Biden Effort to Protect Old Forests Hasn’t Curbed BLM Logging

In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk.

^ProPublica

It is officials. #ivoted. Thanks to #oregon #election rules, everyone gets to securely vote by mail, then check their vote progress and acceptance.

My vote was mailed on Sunday, and accepted today.

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“Police say they have identified a “suspect vehicle” connected to incendiary devices that set fires in ballot drop boxes in Oregon and #Washington state early Monday.

Surveillance images captured a Volvo stopping at a drop box in Portland, #Oregon, just before security personnel nearby discovered a fire inside the box.” apnews.com/article/f66c52f7749…

Ballots destroyed after fires in election drop boxes

Incendiary devices have been set off at two ballot drop boxes — one in Portland, Oregon, and another in nearby Vancouver, Washington — in what one official called a “direct attack on democracy.

^{GENE JOHNSON (AP News)}

Students in a rural school district in the poorest county in Oregon are crushing it at reading. The district's reading scores were second-best in the state overall, and its third graders were ranked first in the state.

Luckily the county has an excellent newspaper that punches well above its weight-- the Malheur Enterprise -- and one of their reporters sat in with a third grade class to see why those students read so well.

#education #reading #PublicSchools #Oregon

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Kidnapped for crypto: 4 men flew from Florida to Portland, tied a man to a post before stealing his cryptocurrency, feds say oregonlive.com/crime/2024/10/k…

#OregonLive #oregon

Kidnapped for crypto: 4 men flew from Florida to Portland, tied a man to a post before stealing his cryptocur

A passerby found the man and reported he looked as if he had been subjected to torture, according to an initial complaint.

^{Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)}