Wildfire resilience
Thinning, prescribed fire, access, rapid response, and coordinated treatment can reduce hazardous fuels when guided by site conditions and professional stewardship.
Forests & Working Lands
Strong forests. Working lands that work.
Dr. Kahl believes Oregon's forests and working lands should support jobs, schools, fire departments, mills, housing, and safer communities. Her approach supports sustainable forestry and active forest management rooted in practical stewardship.
Local Jobs
Forestry and working lands should support mills, skilled workers, small businesses, and rural communities.
Wildfire Prevention
Active management can reduce dangerous fuel loads and help protect families, homes, and communities.
Practical Stewardship
Oregon can care for forests and natural resources while keeping working lands productive and resilient.
Local stewardship for working lands
Forests and working lands shape daily life in Vernonia, Banks, North Plains, St. Helens, Rainier, Clatskanie, Tillamook, and Forest Grove. In OR-01, timber, agriculture, dairy farming, wildfire prevention, and public safety are connected issues, not separate debates.
Dr. Kahl supports practical federal policy that helps communities manage forests responsibly, defend Oregon agriculture, protect water and wildlife, and keep rural economies viable across Columbia County Oregon, Tillamook County Oregon, and Washington County Oregon.
Active Oregon forest management and working lands
Page guide
This working lands guide highlights three practical points for Oregon District 1 voters. Compare working lands priorities with the Oregon Legislature district maps.
Oregon forest management: Oregon forest management should protect healthy forests while supporting wildfire resilience, rural employment, mills, farms, habitat, watersheds, and the local services funded by working lands.
Rural economies
Predictable, responsible management supports skilled workers, mills, contractors, housing materials, schools, fire districts, and businesses in forest communities.
Long-term stewardship
Federal policy should reward measurable forest health, replanting, habitat protection, watershed care, and adaptive management rather than paralysis or short-term extraction.
Oregon forest management affects people differently across Clatsop, Columbia, Tillamook, Washington, and Multnomah counties. Strong federal representation should test proposals against local jobs, household costs, public safety, natural resources, and measurable results—not partisan talking points alone.
Questions and evidence Oregon voters can use
Healthy forests and productive rural economies depend on decisions that reflect local conditions. Useful policy distinguishes among federal, state, tribal, private, and industrial ownership while recognizing that fire, smoke, insects, watersheds, roads, wildlife, and markets cross property boundaries.
Communities need faster, transparent planning for hazardous-fuel reduction, restoration, access, and post-fire recovery. Projects should identify objectives, timelines, responsible agencies, monitoring, and maintenance so treatments can be evaluated rather than announced and forgotten.
Farms, ranches, mills, contractors, ports, and small businesses rely on predictable rules and functioning infrastructure. Federal choices should consider workforce capacity, transportation, water, insurance, market access, and the effects of delay on both livelihoods and landscape health.
Stewardship is strongest when science, field experience, tribal knowledge, and measurable outcomes inform decisions. Collaboration cannot eliminate every disagreement, but it can make tradeoffs clearer and improve accountability for results.
Voters can ask whether an initiative reduces near-term risk, improves long-term landscape health, supports local capacity, and includes maintenance after initial funding ends. They can also examine whether permitting timelines match the urgency described, whether agencies share usable data, and whether monitoring results are published. Clear benchmarks help the public distinguish activity from outcomes. They also show when an approach should be expanded, corrected, or discontinued. Durable policy connects appropriations to implementation and keeps communities informed when costs, schedules, or expected benefits change.
Independent supporters provide this information to help Oregon District 1 voters compare priorities and ask better questions. Verify official commitments and current campaign information with primary sources.
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Serving Oregon's 1st Congressional District
Oregon's 1st Congressional District includes Clatsop County, Columbia County, Tillamook County, most of Washington County, and part of Multnomah County, including Portland's west side.
These priorities affect Hillsboro, Beaverton, Tigard, Forest Grove, Astoria, Warrenton, Seaside, Tillamook, St. Helens, Scappoose, Vernonia, Rainier, Clatskanie, west Portland, and communities across northwest Oregon.