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Deadline: August 6, 2026 at 6:30am PDT
Why this Matters
On Thursday morning the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee begins rewriting the 2026 Farm Bill, and the forestry sections of that bill reach all the way to the Siuslaw National Forest. The John Muir Project reports that the current draft would authorize logging projects of up to 10,000 acres with no environmental analysis, drop the requirement to consult wildlife agencies about endangered species, expand state roadbuilding on federal land with little oversight, and narrow the public's ability to weigh in on how national forests are managed.
That is not abstract here. The Siuslaw is the forest behind Waldport and Yachats. Marbled murrelets nest in its older stands and fly out over the surf to feed. Coho streams run down through it into Alsea Bay. A 10,000 acre project approved with no analysis and no consultation is a project no neighbor gets to comment on and no biologist gets to check.
The committee meets at 6:30 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, August 6, 2026, in room 318 of the Russell Senate Office Building. Calls placed before then still get counted.
Steps to Take
Find out whether you can reach one of the eleven Democrats on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. They represent ten states: California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Neither Ron Wyden nor Jeff Merkley sits on this committee, so if you have family, coworkers or former neighbors in any of those ten states, send this to them today. Constituent calls are the ones that move a committee vote.
Call the Washington office directly. You can leave a message or ask to speak with a staff member; either one is logged. Give your name and your zip code first so the call is counted as a constituent contact.
- California - Senator Adam Schiff, 202-224-3841
- Colorado - Senator Michael Bennet, 202-224-5852
- Georgia - Senator Raphael Warnock, 202-224-3643
- Illinois - Senator Dick Durbin, 202-224-2152
- Michigan - Senator Elissa Slotkin, 202-224-4822
- Minnesota - Senator Amy Klobuchar, 202-224-3244
- Minnesota - Senator Tina Smith, 202-224-5641
- New Jersey - Senator Cory Booker, 202-224-3224
- New Mexico - Senator Ben Ray Lujan, 202-224-6621
- Pennsylvania - Senator John Fetterman, 202-224-4254
- Vermont - Senator Peter Welch, 202-224-4242
Keep the ask short and specific. Three things: strike the forestry sections from the Farm Bill, oppose every amendment that increases or accelerates logging including logging for biomass energy, and vote against moving the bill out of committee if the logging provisions stay in. The sample call script on this page is about thirty seconds long and can be read straight off the screen.
Call our own senators too. The bill goes to the full Senate after committee, and Oregon has more national forest acreage at stake than most states. Reach Senator Ron Wyden at 202-224-5244 and Senator Jeff Merkley at 202-224-3753 and ask them to oppose the forestry title when it comes to the floor.
Write a letter to the editor. Senate staff read hometown papers, and a letter from Lincoln County that names the Siuslaw carries weight a form email does not. The Newport News-Times and YachatsNews both cover this stretch of coast. The John Muir Project has guidance on their site for writing letters to the editor and op-eds on forest issues.