Letters to the Editor

Upthegrove should fulfill forest protection promise

Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove was elected on a promise to permanently protect 77,000 acres of legacy forest. Yet, his Day 1 action was only a temporary pause, not a true moratorium.

Last month, when he held a press conference to announce “permanent protection” of those 77,000 acres, the map told a different story. It was riddled with mistakes — protecting only part of the promised acreage while putting 29,000 acres, including some of the most ecologically valuable forests, back on the auction block for logging.

This is a broken pr...