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Opening Illustration for a feature, “What Happened When a Public Institute Became a De Facto Lobbying Arm of the Timber Industry,”

Internal emails show a tax-funded agency created to educate people about forestry has acted as a public-relations agency and lobbying arm for Oregon’s timber industry, in some cases skirting legal constraints that forbid it from doing so.

by Rob Davis, The Oregonian/OregonLive, and Tony Schick, OPB.


August 4, 2020