Letters

"The United States is a market-based economy. A market-based economy is an open economy in which the market's own laws and forces call the tune — not the government nor any other entity beside…

Regarding the June 14 opinion piece supporting the 2020 Clean Energy Bill.

Voters, please, do not be misled by thinking the Oregon Republican senators were being arrogant. Thank goodness they had the courage to stand against this most extreme and impracticable politi…

In response to the 220-farmer June 14 letter “Climate change is here; we need bold solutions:” Climate change is not here, and no, we don’t. Sorry, AOC. Sorry, Al Gore. Sorry, UN-IPCC.

I've been subscribing to the Capital Press for several years now and the number of weeks that there hasn't been an article on wolves killing livestock is few to none.

It is my understanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking input on how to better manage our stored water supply in the West. Having lived some 60 years of my adult life on a farm…

I’m writing in regards to a suggestion l made to Editor Joe Beach and a voice mail message to George Plaven on his article and photos, front page of the May 17 Issue. I suggested then that an …

I was pleased to see Mateusz Perkowski’s article on HB 2619 to ban chlorpyrifos in Oregon. However, I was disappointed to read that Oregon legislators have called into question the clear evide…

We should applaud Sen. Boquist and his colleagues who opposed the corporation tax. They are good stewards concerned about the cares of us citizens and this state.

Regarding "Regulators target mercury pollution in Willamette Basin" (Capital Press, May 3).

It was troubling to read recently that the Wolf Advisory Group (WAG) was used as a forum to essentially single out a producer for retribution for having repeated depredations. Even if he follo…

Recent letters and Oregon Legislators have advocated carbon taxes to prevent climate change/global warming. I suggest they have it exactly wrong.

“Yamhill County approves controversial trail” — Capital Press, April 5

No milk buyer will pay more than it has to in order to get the milk it needs.

Below is a link to the newest publication from the Western Landowners Alliance entitled “Reducing Conflict with Grizzly Bears, Wolves and Elk — A Western Landowners’ Guide.”

I read your “Our View” of April 5 and agree but have one complaint. When I was born the world population was a little over 2 billion. Now it’s well over 7 billion. As long as the government (a…

April 1, 2020: "Portland Welcomes the Return of Canis lupus, the Gray Wolf."

The “Green New Deal” appears too similar to Mao Zedong’s “Great Leap Forward,” which he initiated after he came into power in 1948. His goal was to transform industry and collectivize farms.

Farmers and ranchers are the backbone of America. They grow food to feed us, fiber to clothe us, and fuel to run our homes and cars. Their hard work and dedication provide economic stability a…

Why do we continue to elect attorneys to public office? They are enough of a problem when in private practice. To add insult to injury, people re-elect them again and again. In Congress, we ha…

The cap and trade legislation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is a major mistake.

As reported by Don Jenkins, Capital Press, Friday, March 8, Michael Stumo, head of the Coalition for a Prosperous America, spoke at the National Farmers Union convention, March 3 in Bellevue, …

I appreciate the article y'all wrote about the exemption request from the 2005 Travel Management Rule for the Wallowa Whitman & Malheur National Forests. The title of the article, however,…

“We would do the same.” “… Otherwise harmless people who have done what we would do.” I am troubled by your recent editorial, which echoed another of last year, in which you said you, in their…

You have done a magnificent job of presenting every aspect of roaming wolves vs. established cattle herds.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has proposed spending $750,000 to study the removal of four dams on the Snake River to provide more salmon for the orca pods that seasonally forage off our coast.

Two articles, one in the Jan. 18 Capital Press, “A Wall Doesn’t Solve the Immigration Issue,” and the Jan. 25 issue, “The Wolves Are Coming to Town,” both show the lack of concern for the safe…

In response to the Jan. 25 edition article titled “Losing Ground,” it’s a helpless feeling to watch good farmland wash down a creek or river. We own about a mile of farm property along Cow Cre…

Is there a desire to eliminate the fish crisis?

In reading the article "Undies demonstrate a fun way to learn science," I just had to make a comment to those pushing cap and trade/climate control. Please read paragraphs 3 and 4 of that article.

I question allowing more rural structures outside Urban Growth Boundaries.

Farm Women United (FWU), a grass-roots association organized by farm women fed up with decades of being ignored and silenced by the powerful, global, corporate politico-industry “special inter…

To every one of you who attend the first set of meetings on the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision: Thank you. It was great to see everyone who had traveled from around the West to have their…

It is an amazing thing to me that city people because of their numbers control how we are supposed to operate — even though they are unable to run a city!

U.S. dairy farmers are getting financially milked until dry by their existing co-op management.

It is an amazing thing to me that city people because of their numbers control how we are supposed to operate — even though they are unable to run a city!

Are we humans expendable and the animals to be revered? (Nov. 23 Capital Press)

Welcome to your, the public’s, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association and the Oregon Farm Bureau encourage Oregonians to vote for gubernatorial candidate, Knute Buehler in the governor’s election.

What’s in a name? We are all given a name at birth and that name stays with us for the rest of our lives. Though some choose to change their names, particularly if you are an artist like Madon…

How do you reconcile your apparent support for Trump trade policy as reflected in both news and editorial content in the Oct. 5 issue with reports like this: https://reut.rs/2OhQzxP

Mr. Marble’s comments contained in the column, “Surviving the drought in Western Oregon” were very well received from this subscriber.

The science of climate change should be left to the scientists and not the politicians.

Capital Press, Sept. 21, issue reports that because the cranberry supply of recent years, including this year’s crop, has exceeded profitable demand and prices have fallen below the cost of pr…

My heart broke and my life changed forever. I was devastated when I was forced to close all operations of Schumacher Furs USA, after over 100 years in operation. My wife and I, our family, emp…

The recent letter on climate change is wrong, contradicted by the evidence and literature, and harmful in its “remedies.” This is not the Pearl Harbor of climate change, and the American peopl…

I am a Capital Press (CP) subscriber and have been a “user” for most of the 40 plus years I have lived in Salem.

Unless the conference committee that will soon negotiate the 2018 Farm Bill acts decisively, the largest, most effective program for conservation agriculture could be gutted entirely. At risk …

My wife and I recently returned from touring farming areas in northern Washington. While there, discussion got around to grizzly bear reintroduction.

I usually agree with the editorials of the editorial board in the Capital Press, but the last sentence of their view in the July 20, 2018, article where in their opinion, justice has been serv…

As a farm boy now living and working in the city, I love reading the Capital Press and appreciate its perspectives, even if I don’t agree with each one. But, I have to call out the excuses you…

Regarding Francine Madden’s position as “wolf mediator” (“Money Runs Out for Contract,” Capital Press, July 13), is this bureaucratic insanity on steroids? Flushing more than $1.7 million away…

In a report dated May 31, National Milk Producers Federation President Jim Mulhern writes that NMPF, along with the International Dairy Foods Association and the U.S. Dairy Export Council are …