A tour of industrial forests in Oregon's Coast Range, on Dec. 11, 2019.
Beth Nakamura / OPB

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Big money bought Oregon’s forests. Small timber communities are paying the price.

By Tony Schick (OPB) and Rob Davis/The Oregonian and Lylla Younes/ProPublica (OPB)
Falls City, Ore. June 11, 2020 1 p.m.

Wall Street investment funds took control of Oregon’s private forests. Now, wealthy timber corporations reap the benefits of tax cuts that have cost rural counties billions.

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