Environment

Multi-County Logging Lawsuit Seeks Billions Against State Of Oregon

KLCC | By Brian Bull

Published October 24, 2019 at 7:16 AM PDT

A trial that begins today has the potential to be one of the more flashy cases to involve a logging dispute. The case pits 14 westside counties – including Lane, Benton, Douglas, Linn and Lincoln Counties - against the state. It’s “flashy” because those counties are seeking $1.4 billion in damages for a lack of logging revenue from publicly owned forests.

KLCC's Brian Bull talked to Jes Burns of OPB’s Science and Environment team about the case.

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Brian Bull is a part-time reporter for the KLCC News department, and first began working with the station in 2016. He's been a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (25 regional), the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from the Indigenous Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.

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