About Us

KeepTheChildrensForest.Org is a formally registered assumed business name for the Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc. (ORWW.Org), a non-profit educational corporation founded in Philomath in 1996. ORWW is described in more detail below.

Collecting information and building this website has been a cooperative effort among lots of people, and we have an informal steering committee guiding the KeepTheChildrensForest.Org project composed of primarily of retired educators and foresters, all of whom have volunteered their efforts because they care about actively managing the Elliott State Forest. Please join with us to save the Elliott State Forest for future generations of schoolchildren.

We have received significant help and insight from three other non-profit organizations:

Advocates for School Trust Lands, a national educational non-profit that works to ensure trust lands remain an endowment for today’s and future generations of schoolchildren.
Cascade Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research and educational organization that focuses on state and local issues in Oregon.
Evergreen Foundation, an Oregon non-profit forestry research and educational organization.

We've described these three non-profit organizations in more detail below.

Finally, we value accuracy. If anything in this site is factually inaccurate, tell Dave Sullivan (whose contact information is below), and he will revise the site appropriately.

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Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project

About the Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project

Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project. Inc. (ORWW) is an educational, nonprofit 501 c(3) corporation. We were incorporated in Oregon in 1996 under Internal Revenue Service 501 (c)(3) guidelines which govern the conduct of all non-profits incorporated for religious, scientific, educational and charitable purposes.

ORWW is funded by private businesses, landowners, individuals, associations, and foundations with an interest in the long-term use and scientific management of Oregon's natural and cultural resources.

Mission Statement

The primary mission of the Oregon Websites and Watersheds Project, Inc. is to assist Oregon students, teachers, residents, and resource managers in implementing computer technology, historical documentation, scientific reasoning, community consensus building, environmental enhancement projects, and long-term monitoring strategies to help make more informed decisions regarding local natural and cultural resources.

Donations

Please help us by making a donation to the KeepTheChildrensForest.Org project by sending a check to: ORWW, care of Dave Sullivan, 12875 Kings Valley Highway, Monmouth, OR 97361. Donations to ORWW are tax deductible.

Dave Sullivan, Ph.D., President of ORWW

Dave is shown here after successfully raising a timber-framed entrance arch to his timberland.

Dave is an emeritus Professor of Business from Oregon State University, which is just a fancy way of saying he worked at OSU for 25 years and retired honorably. While at OSU, he taught thousands of students how to use computers effectively and published an extensive series of textbooks and other instructional material about computing through Houghton Mifflin and Dryden Press. He has spent the last ten years renovating historic homes and building a dream home for his wife, Barbara. Dave can be reached through drdavesullivan@gmail.com or by texting 541-791-6470.

Dave's prior volunteer activities have included serving on the Corvallis School Board and the Oregon Small Woodlands Board of Directors, and he was the Polk County Small Woodlands tree farmer of the year in 1991.

Bob Zybach, Ph.D., Cofounder and Secretary of ORWW

Rather than attempt to list all of Bob's credentials, we've decided to just build a link to his online Curriculum Vitae.

Advocates for School Trust Lands

Advocates For School Trust Lands is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 corporation organized under the laws of the State of Utah in 2000. It is funded by grants from the United States Department of Education and donations from corporations, individuals, educational organizations, and those who generate the revenue for schools.

Their motto is: Working to ensure trust lands remain an endowment for today’s and future generations of schoolchildren as intended since the founding of our country.

David Gould, Oregon Representative, Advocates for School Trust Lands

David Gould is a great-grandson of the pioneer George and Hattie Gould family. The Gould Family history and their lives at the Elkhorn Ranch in the heart of present-day Elliott State Forest has best been told by family historian Aileen Rickard, in her book The Goulds of Elkhorn.

David Gould retired from Coos Bay Timber Operators, Inc., the family-owned business in 2013. He has been a staunch advocate of keeping the Elliott State Forest as a School Trust Land and actively managing it to provide revenue for the Common School Fund.

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Cascade Policy Institute

Founded in 1991, Cascade Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research and educational organization that focuses on state and local issues in Oregon.

"Cascade Policy Institute brings clarity on state and local issues in Oregon, which are often misunderstood through media or party rhetoric."

Cascade’s mission is to develop and promote public policy alternatives that foster individual liberty, personal responsibility, and economic opportunity. Cascade promotes property rights, incentives, markets and decentralized decision making. Cascade advances these values by sharing its research with the public, the media, and state and local lawmakers through publications, educational programs, community forums, and special events.

In this Evergreen Foundation publication, writer Jim Petersen traces the social, cultural, historic, economic, environmental and regulatory roots of the wildfire pandemic that is sweeping through western national forests.

Evergreen Foundation

The Evergreen Foundation is an Oregon non-profit forestry research and educational organization founded in Medford, Oregon in 1986.

"We give voice to the consistent forest practices, and forest policies that leave a legacy of growth for generations to come."

Evergreen's mission is to advance public understanding and support for science-based forestry and forest policy by providing clear and concise facts and commentary. It endorses long term, active forest management for healthy forests and productive communities.

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