Rural Oregon & Natural Resources
Senator Wyden has made a career of seeking consensus among environmentalists and natural resource businesses, engendering a greater mutual respect for the environment. Wyden’s record has resulted in saving endangered species and Oregon’s special places. In Oregon, Wyden helped expand wilderness protections for Mount Hood and the Columbia River Gorge, Copper Salmon, the Oregon Badlands, Spring Basin, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and the addition of hundreds of miles of Oregon rivers to the Wild and Scenic Rivers system.
Senator Wyden has worked to protect pristine waters in southwestern Oregon from dangerous nickel mining, and to protect the livelihoods of ranchers in Eastern Oregon from hazardous uranium mining. Wyden has taken the lead in protecting old-growth forests and has advocated reform of federal government land management practices. He believes that extractive industries such as oil and coal should pay for all of the costs they impose on public lands and that American taxpayers should get a fair return on commonly held natural resources.
During his tenure, Senator Wyden has been a leader in supporting the collaborative process for land management in rural Oregon, from the collaborative sage grouse habitat conservation plans that prevented a listing of the Greater Sage Grouse to the establishment of a 10 Year Stewardship contract that saved one of the last sawmills in eastern Oregon.
In 2008 Senator Wyden won passage of the Combat Illegal Logging law that is having a real effect on the survival of endangered forests around the world by cutting off the market for illegal timber.
Latest
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February 15, 2018
Wyden, Merkley Push Zinke for Response to Five-Month-Old Sagebrush Request
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May 28, 2015
Honoring Frank Moore
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January 29, 2015
"No" on Keystone XL pipeline, Ron stands up for Oregonians
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June 02, 2014
Wyden: Inaction on Climate Change is No Longer an Option
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March 10, 2014
Wyden Stands #Up4Climate
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June 21, 2013
Wyden Floor Speech on Immigration Reform
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April 17, 2013
Baldface and Rough and Ready Creeks named to “Most Endangered Rivers” List