Date: February 7, 2023
To: All League Members
From: Rebecca Gladstone, LWVOR President
Alice Bartelt, Action Committee Chair
Josie Koehne, LWVOR Forestry Climate Action Portfolio
Contact Your Legislators to Support SB 530!
ACTION: Contact your Legislators (2023 Find Your Legislators)
and Senate Natural Resources Committee members:
Sen Jeff Golden, Sen Fred Girod, Sen Floyd Prozanski, Sen David Brock Smith, and Sen Kathleen Taylor
REQUEST: SUPPORT SB 530, Establish a state policy for Natural Climate Solutions.
We are asking local League members throughout Oregon to advance this critical piece of climate legislation, to build support before the first public hearing.
DEADLINE: ASAP, before February 15
A first hearing is expected as early as Feb 15. We need to build support to “give this bill legs!”
Tell Legislators what matters to you. Background information on SB 530 can be found in Oregon Conservation Network's "Oregon’s Untapped Climate Solution" 1-pager.
Position the state to leverage federal funding and private investments in natural climate solutions on natural and working lands
Create a source of state funding for voluntary actions to remove climate pollution from the atmosphere and store it in natural and working lands
Fund and direct state agencies to provide incentives and technical support to forest owners, farmers, and ranchers to implement natural climate solutions on natural and working lands and
Invest in a comprehensive Oregon natural and working lands inventory and study opportunities for workforce development and training.