A split-screen graphic titled "The Fight for Oregon's Future." The left side shows a roaring forest wildfire with a sign reading "Dr. Bob Zybach: Federal Mismanagement = Tinderbox." The right side shows a legal team auditing large stacks of voter registration documents with a sign reading "Eric Lee (Judicial Watch): Cleaning 800,000 Inactive Voters."

16-20 Oregon’s Future: Forest Mismanagement & Election Integrity

By Dr Mark | May 16, 2026 | Comments 0 Comment

Oregon’s Future: Forest Mismanagement and Election Integrity

Release Date: May 16, 2026

Duration: 47:55

Host: Mark Anderson

Guests: Dr. Bob Zybach, forester, National Wildfire Alliance and Eric Lee, senior attorney for Judicial Watch’s Election Integrity Team

About This Episode

On Show 16-20, this week, we dive deep into two major fights for Oregon’s future: the mismanagement of our timber landscape and the critical battle over the integrity of our voter rolls.

First, we sit down with Dr. Bob Zybach, who is running for Lane County Commissioner. For decades, Zybach has documented the federal failures that have turned Oregon’s lush forests into tinderboxes. We discuss the real cost of federal forest mismanagement, the status of the National Wildfire Alliance’s work with the Trump administration, and the startling truth about the billions spent on the spotted owl recovery. If you live in Lane County or care about our O&C lands, you need to hear what Zybach says every voter must understand before the May 19th election.

Then, Eric Lee, Senior Attorney for Judicial Watch, joins us to sound the alarm on election integrity. Following a landmark legal victory and settlement against the state of Oregon over its 800,000 inactive voters, Lee breaks down what it takes to actually clean the rolls. And he tells us what’s actually in the settlement agreement that will hold Oregon accountable. We’ll discuss how President Trump’s recent Executive Order and the SAVE Act impact mail-in voting vulnerabilities.

Tune in to hear how demanding accountability for our forests and security at the ballot box will safeguard a promising future for Oregon.

Transcript

(Opener with Bob Zybach) Oregon was once one of the most productive timber states in the nation — and in many ways it still could be. In fact Oregon was the top or “most” in a lot of thing. Forests, timber, high tech. education, etc. The forests are still there. The growing capacity is still there.

The problem is the policy. Oregon keeps saying it wants jobs — but then does nothing to take advantage of the free-money that grows in our forests at a rate of 9 billion board feet per year.

And few people in Oregon have watched that decline as closely, or fought it as long, as our next guest. Dr. Bob Zybach is a forester whose academic focus is catastrophic wildfire in Oregon, and he’s been working with the National Wildfire Alliance to push back.

(Opener with Eric Lee) Our second guest today is a man who has been working to do something Oregon’s Secretary of State refused to do: clean up Oregon’s voter rolls. Which is always weird when govt which creates the laws — doesn’t follow their own laws.

Eric Lee is a senior attorney with Judicial Watch’s election integrity team. Eric, welcome back to I Spy Radio. … So when we last talked, Judicial Watch had a lawsuit pending against Oregon to force them to remove 800,000 inactive registrations from the voter rolls…

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