Sen. Michael Dembrow convenes Senate Workforce Committee for testimony on immigrant and guest worker exploitation Worker abuse and exploitation in Oregon’s forests was the focus Tuesday, May 24, at a special hearing before lawmakers in Salem. Sen. Michae ...
26 May 2016 - Emily Green
PART III | Advocates, reforestation operators say effective policy changes will need to come from the top down This is Part III of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers. Marko Bey was sit ...
18 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
Oregon's immigrant forestry workers have little recourse to pervasive exploitation and labor violations For three decades, thousands of Latin American immigrant and guest workers have performed much of the most grueling work in Oregon's forests. ...
18 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
PART II | Companies face few inspections, mild consequences despite actions that lead to serious injury or death This is Part II of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers. It was raining o ...
11 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
PART I | State hearings reveal the vulnerability of workers who live in fear of retaliation if they speak out This is Part I of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of immigrant forestry workers. Any Oregonian who watches network ...
5 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
Researchers recommend reining in timber industry's carbon emissions Greenhouse gas emissions from timber industry practices in western Oregon are at least four times greater than emissions from Oregon’s last remaining coal plant in Boardman, and equi ...
19 Nov 2015 - Emily Green
Is it logging or restoration? A trip into Mount Hood National Forest illuminates the debate We’re deep in the west Cascade wilderness, standing among a few sparsely scattered trees in a clearing otherwise void of life. We climb over loosely packed piles o ...
22 Oct 2015 - Emily Green
Scientist Dominick DellaSala says that when it comes to forest fires, we’ve got it all wrong July 2015: On the tail of back-to-back, historically severe fire seasons, drought-stricken Oregon has lit up once again as fires began raging across the state a m ...
20 Jul 2015 - Emily Green