The Coast Range Association (CRA) is a 501c (3) nonprofit that has been working since 1991 to find just protections for Western Oregon’s forests while supporting a vibrant rural economy. “To accomplish the GND’s goals, they propose two initiatives: Land reform through the buyout of most industrial forest owners and the transfer of purchased lands to locally owned and operated social benefit enterprise. The attached document is a proposal to congressional leaders advancing the Green New Deal (HR-109). The land addressed is the 4.4 million acres of Western Oregon’s private, investor-owned, industrial forests. The proposal aims to vastly increase stored forest carbon and provide robust social benefits to forest workers and rural communities.
CRA states that this is the first proposal to vastly increase stored forest carbon on Oregon’s private industrial forests while providing social benefits to forest workers and rural communities. No similar proposal exists that scales to the climate emergency and concurrently achieves the just transition goals of the GND.
Read the entire proposal: Climate and Oregon’s Industrial Forests, A Green New Deal Proposal
