We live in rural Lane County with neighbors who are ranchers and loggers.  I, over 45 years now, have had very lively conversations regarding both industries and their impact on the land around us.  We agree on some issues and adamently disagree on others.  For me, the aerial spray of herbicide is a huge issue.  Those of us who live around corporate timber holdings have little power to stop or even contain that spraying.  The runoff from such spraying hugely impacts the watershed, streams and aquifers in those areas.  It's not a pretty situation.

As a "small" rural landholder, we have a 10 acre oganic farm and 15 acres of self-managed timber, we welcome support from "urbanites" who share our concern for both quality of life issues and the larger environmental issues "corporate level" (and, thereby, far less personal) ranching and logging bring with them.