Forest Web is a Facebook page which was founded in 2007 by a local group of conservation activists in Cottage Grove, Oregon. There original purpose was to oppose the Western Oregon Plan Revision {WOPR} on behalf of the old growth forests on BLM lands in Lane County.
Today Forest Web continues to be a grassroots organisation engaged in the preservation not only of local stands, but of all old growth forests throughout the Pacific Northwest.
“Forests precede civilisations and deserts follow them…”. This simple quotation lives at the heart of Forest Web. If we want to change this sad truth we need to change the concepts of how we relate to the natural world on which all of us depend. Is a forest merely a source of timber resources to exploit? Should the true value of a forest only be calculated in board feet? Can we reclaim the words ‘manage’ and ‘sustainable’ so they refer to how to preserve a healthy forest rather than how to run a productive tree farm.
Tree Weaver 