Jeff Golden

Donald Trump has just carried out his threat to shrink some national monuments. …Which takes us to the second vital point: the push to gut the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument is an assault on Southern Oregon’s economy. …It’s very much like Trump’s promise to “bring back Coal!” and get all those displaced miners back to work. What a cruel hoax. …This is the same thing: let’s “bring back timber!” Never mind the fact that logging and milling have been automated to the point that they employ tiny numbers of people these days, even in the largest operations. …But that’s no reason to hurt them again with fairy tales about returning to logging’s glory days, and hurt all the rest of us by dismantling one of our region’s most precious assets.