Is Your Water Safe?
What happens in your watershed comes out of the tap.
Logging and chemical sprays can have harmful impacts to your drinking water, livestock, pets, garden, and farm. This is why Oregonians have a legal right to know when logging, road building, and chemical sprays are planned near our homes, families, and places we care about
Private forestland owners have to notify the Oregon Department of Forestry before they begin forest operations on any private forest land in Oregon. These notices are available to the public through FERNS, an online database. You can sign up on FERNS to receive automatic notification by email or text when helicopters will be spraying herbicide on private forest lands within one mile of your property, residence, or water source. You can also sign up on FERNS to receive automatic notification by email or text of other types of private forest land operations, such as logging, road building, or slash pile burning.
Signing up on FERNS is free of charge.
Get notified before logging and chemical sprays happen near your home and community.
Your watershed is the area of land that all of the rivers, streams and rainfall drain into. Roughly 75% of Oregonians rely on these surface waters as the source of their drinking water. Industrial logging and chemical pesticide sprays can drastically affect water quality across your watershed and impact what is coming out of your tap.
Knowing when and where these activities are happening in your watershed is the first step toward protecting your home and family.
Free, easy to use, & delivered right to your phone!
You don’t have to get caught off guard!
Signing up to get advanced updates can help you prepare and best protect your home and family from unwelcome impacts.
Keep Informed - Take Action
Sign up to learn more about Oregon’s online notification system, and how you can register to receive advanced notice when logging activities are planned in your watershed.
