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A 22-square-mile clearcut.

That’s what I saw when I looked out the window of the small plane I was riding in, a Lighthawk-sponsored flight over the private logging lands bordering the Willamette National Forest. I didn’t know the exact size at the time; all I could do was react to the scale of logging. In my two decades doing conservation work in Oregon, I’d never seen such a large landscape denuded of trees.

Ecologist Dr. David Mildrexler shares his research on the importance of the region with a special focus on wildlife, water, and climate.

Oregon Wild is a proud sponsor of the 2023 Eugene Environmental Film Festival, running from September 29 through October 8.

The films look fantastic, showcasing everything from bumblebees and wolverines here in Oregon, to sustainability efforts in Africa and climate activism around the world. 

From the slopes of Mount Hood to the headwaters of the Willamette, old-growth forest trails in the Oregon Cascades offer some of the best hiking you can imagine. On this webcast, join John Cissel, an old-growth lover and forest researcher who hiked thousands of miles of these trails in the 1990s and published guide-maps and a book describing his favorite hikes in the Mount Hood and Willamette National Forests. Now, he's published a “3rd edition” of his guide online, with updates and reflections from 25 years of change in the forest and on the trails.

Oregon Wild supporters helped us achieve a BIG WIN in the face of animal cruelty.

This Public Lands Month, enjoy the spectacular public lands Oregon has to offer! But don’t forget to advocate for those same places.

The Community Behind Call of the Wild

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The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission is considering restrictions on wildlife killing derbies. Learn more below and take action to help advocate for banning these inhumane, outdated contests in this month’s wolf pack newsletter!

Human civilizations have been profoundly influenced and affected by the way people have used – and abused – trees and forest products. Author John Perlin joins us to discuss the many ways forests have influenced societies over time.

The early-to-mid 20th Century was marked by an era of dam building across the United States. These dams came at a cost to watersheds, freshwater ecosystems, and indigenous communities. Every year, millions of salmon were blocked from reaching their historic spawning beds, eventually resulting in the collapse of salmon runs across the west. The Columbia River basin was once home to the world's most productive chinook salmon runs. These fish traveled all the way into the central mountains of Idaho to spawn.