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Once it is cut our old growth will never return. Grateful to the environmental groups who called out BLM for lying about this 3200 acre timber sale and the judge who stopped the destruction of habitat worth so much more than money. 🥹🌲 🌲 🌲

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A federal judge has sided with conservation groups and demanded the BLM immediately halt a harvest 50 miles from Eugene. See link below ⬇️

📸 Photo courtesy of Cascadia Wildlands

What a Data Center Does to Where You Live — And How Far the Damage Reaches.

They tell you it's just a building full of computers. Here's what they don't tell you.

AT THE FENCE LINE:
The air around a data center is not the same air you grew up breathing. Diesel backup generators — which these facilities require by the dozens or even hundreds — release fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) linked to asthma, heart disease, and respiratory illness. Those generators emit 200 to 600 times more nitrogen oxides than natural gas plants. (World Resources Institute) At the xAI facility in Memphis, a Time Magazine investigation found that nitrogen dioxide levels in the air markedly increased from pre-data center levels in areas immediately surrounding the facility. (Sehn)

The noise never stops. Internal noise levels can reach up to 96 decibels — well above the 85 dB threshold considered harmful to human hearing. (PubMed Central) Neighbors near a Virginia facility described sound levels of 90 decibels at their homes. One resident said he can no longer open his windows. Another put mattresses against the glass to block it out.

The light from hyperscale facilities runs all night, disrupting the natural circadian rhythms of the body — including melatonin production and sleep-wake cycles. (EHP) Sleep disruption. Chronic stress. Hearing loss. These aren't hypotheticals. They are documented outcomes in communities that said yes before they understood what they were saying yes to.

WITHIN A MILE:
The land changes. The average data center site in 2024 covered about 224 acres — roughly 450 football fields — a 144% increase in footprint since 2022. (World Resources Institute) Farmland gone. Forests cleared. Viewsheds destroyed.

The water starts disappearing. A mid-sized data center uses roughly 300,000 gallons of water per day — the same as 1,000 homes. (Nixon Peabody) Between 80 and 90 percent of that water comes from surface water or groundwater — often the same sources your tap water comes from. (Fwpcoa) Most of it evaporates in the cooling towers and never comes back.

Wildlife starts acting differently. Researchers describe data centers as potential "sensory danger zones" — places where light and noise exceed the thresholds at which there are measurable fitness consequences for species. (National Wildlife Federation) Animal communication breaks down. Migration patterns shift. Nesting fails.

MILES AWAY — AND DOWNSTREAM:
The water table doesn't stop at the property line. Heavy reliance on groundwater can lead to aquifer depletion that threatens ecosystems and diminishes long-term water availability for surrounding communities — not just those next door. (Waterplan)

The power plants that feed these facilities pollute far beyond the data center itself. Datacenters rely heavily on energy from large-scale power plants — facilities now increasingly co-located with data centers to avoid delays in grid upgrades. (arXiv) Whatever that plant burns, your airshed absorbs.

A September 2025 study found that air pollutants from data center operations increase rates of respiratory diseases and cardiovascular conditions, and elevate cancer risks among nearby communities. (EHP)

Ordinances are being written or ignored. The research is clear. The damage is real. The question is whether your municipality is asking the hard questions before the ground gets broken — or after.

You deserve to know what's being built next to your water. Your air. Your land.

Sources: National Wildlife Federation (Sept. 2025) · World Resources Institute (Feb. 2026) · Environmental Health Project (Feb. 2026) · PMC/Public Health Research (2025) · Science & Environmental Health Network (Aug. 2025) · Nixon Peabody/Joyce Foundation (2024) · Smithsonian Magazine (Sept. 2025)

FINAL CHANCE to SAVE OREGONS OLD GROWTH!
Today is the Deadline
Please take 60 Seconds
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Call to Action! The center for biological diversity has made it easy! Just a few clicks sends a pre-written response to BLM in support of saving Oregon’s old growth forests.

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Last chance to speak up for Oregon's old-growth forests! The comment period closes on Monday, March 23rd.

The Trump administration has proposed to massively increase logging on 2.5 million acres in western Oregon managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

Let's be clear, this plan wasn't made to promote healthy, resilient forests — it's purpose is to maximize logging.

We've already lost too much mature and old-growth forest to logging, leading to declining populations of hundreds of species, including endangered northern spotted owls, marbled murrelets, and coho salmon.

The science is clear — we need to protect more forests for the future

Please speak up to protect these forests and the wild species who rely on them to survive. ➡️ https://bit.ly/4s4DVBg

Happy Spring Equinox Everyone! 💕🌲🦋

Don’t let our 🌲🌲🌳🌲 become merely 🪾🪵🪵🪵
Please email BLM and tell them not to cut Oregon Old Growth. Take 60 seconds to protect Salmon, Clean Air and Drinking Water.

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Please sign! Here’s a super easy way to contact your representatives to ask them to stand up for Oregon old growth!

https://oregonwild.org/thank-you-protect-our-mature-and-old-growth-blm-forests/?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQlu9NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe61dNY7QEX1v4FbMcnXxUuH5BHfub5j2bnYQ717q2Qzoj9r4zsCU1_9Oxdjk_aem_suw2qJ6EYL0HCRcFejiuwQ

Thank you - Protect Our Mature and Old-Growth BLM Forests - Oregon Wild Conservationists say proposal to “maximize” logging across nearly 2 million acres of Western Oregon BLM lands would devastate fish, wildlife, and threaten communities

BLM is rolling back protections to clearcut Oregon’s old growth forests. March 23rd deadline to comment. Once they are gone, they will never come back. [email protected]