Letters

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 …

Many thanks are due to whomever has brought suit against proposed Proposition 43 — a gun-banning law.

This information is so that your most recently expressed opinions are more consistent with reality. Opinions without knowledge lack substance.

On June 1 and June 8 you ran articles that concerned the Klamath Project irrigators and tribes trying to balance a limited water supply and the federal government trying to protect the Klamath…

I understand that the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision will be released on or before Friday June 29. While my public comment was shouted down by staff of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest…

In his response to my comment regarding lessons from Antarctic ice cores, a letter writer repeats the false dichotomy that one must choose between the conclusions that carbon dioxide affects t…

In the Capital Press Ag Weekly June 8 issue, Carol Dumas reports that RaboResearch recommends that the “dairy industry” get into “the alternative dairy markets”, i.e.; the milk-free alternativ…

A recent piece in the Capital Press quoting a representative of the Wheat Growers wrongly states the position of the Washington Policy Center is, “Take away subsidies, take away crop insurance…

On April 29, 2018, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told a U.S. Senate panel that the agency has “exercised enforcement discretion” when it comes to holding plant-based…

Thank you for publishing the letter of May 2018. I acknowledge the writer’s credentials and expertise, but dispute his assertions. Credentials are not evidence. I am not sure that being “a con…

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, has proposed an amendment to the Farm Bill that is designed to destroy state laws protecting food safety, animal welfare and the environment. It is best known for the …

Farm Women United (FWU), an advocacy group for family farmers, has been fielding emails and telephone calls from farmers who are struggling to make ends meet and feel like they cannot go on. F…

Lewis Carroll couldn’t have envisioned anything as topsy-turvy as what we are seeing with the USDA’s handling of the Organic Livestock Rules. How often do we hear of an industry sector suing t…

Regarding the Capital Press April 12, “Elk disrupt farming in Northwest Washington valley.”

Continuing the discussion on climate change with David Nemarnik, I dispute that “97 percent of the world’s climate scientists who are regularly published and peer-reviewed” have expressed “rea…

Exasperated. That’s how I felt when I read your front-page article written by Don Jenkins about elk damage in the Skagit River Valley. The farmers are reporting that elk are breaking down fenc…

I appreciate my fellow Capital Press readers who write letters to the Opinion page. I believe it is very important to be open to others’ point of view and feelings.

Thank you, Adrian Arp, for providing insight into your resistance to action on climate change. I appreciate your passion on the issue.

I’m writing in response to Dr. Adrian Arp’s letter in the 23 March 2018 edition of the Capital Press. Dr. Arp’s letter brought the adage “Every one is entitled to his opinion but no one is ent…

I recently read that Chinook salmon are becoming progressively smaller. I made the same observation last fall while watching salmon returning to the Bonneville hatchery. Fisheries scientists a…