Monthly Archives: June 2013

Healthy Forests Equal Healthy Communities

The La Grande Observer recently published the following commentary by BoiseCascade’s Lindsay Warness and Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities’ Nick Smith: Oregon’s public forests are a public treasure from which many people derive pleasure, solace, and a living.  Forestlands in Oregon are incredibly diverse and provide a wide range of benefits for the people who live,…

Financial Instability is Putting Children at risk in Douglas County

Evelyn Badger-Nores is the executive director at Douglas C.A.R.E.S., a child abuse response and evaluation service provider based in Roseburg (The views in this column are hers alone.). In this column, Ms. Badger-Nores says a lack of jobs and economic opportunities has led to an increase in child abuse and neglect in her local rural…