Coho salmon are part of cultural and spiritual tradition for Indigenous people in Oregon as well as a food source for more than 100 species yet their numbers continue to decline due to human activities.

Less than 10% of Oregon’s old growth forests are left which are ecosystem hotspots which promote biodiversity, provide food and shelter for countless wildlife species, and store carbon.

Despite their precipitous status of 178 individuals, timber wolves are not protected in Oregon where they among the thousands of animals hunted, poached, and poisoned by people every year.

Oregon a broad range of gun safety laws including requirements for a permit and training in order to purchase firearms as well as a prohibition on high-capacity magazines, untraceable ghost guns, and 3-D printed guns.

Oregon is among the US states that still allows the death penalty, which is banned in every other western industrialized country.