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The Imnaha River and surrounding wildlands of the Eagle Cap and Hells Canyon have many stories to tell - from fighting timber sales to preserving biodiversity.
December 12, 2024
Walking into a grove of towering trees on the edge of Crabtree Lake, trunks all wider than I can get my arms around, feels like I’ve entered a place outside of time. Carved by glaciers, the steep walls of Crabtree Valley and the moist environment around Crabtree Lake have protected pockets of ancient trees from […]
December 11, 2024
Hordes of people were out and about along the Deschutes River, enjoying a warm, sunny day in Bend, Oregon. Some were on bikes, others were with their dogs. And others–well, at first, you might not know what they were doing. They were wearing hard hats and carrying long wooden beams and posts. Most looked to […]
November 15, 2024
The North Fork Umatilla Wilderness is a vital connector of wildlands and wildlife habitat in the Blue Mountains. Area conservationists fought hard to include the area in the 1984 Oregon Wilderness Act.
November 1, 2024
Now it is up to the US Forest Service to listen. Our public lands forests are important – for fish and wildlife, clean drinking water, recreation, and, of course, the climate. Unfortunately, they are viewed by the agencies that manage them – the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) – as primarily places […]
October 11, 2024
Puckery sweet huckleberries lined the upper Badger Creek trail within easy reach. Ancient western red cedars flared branches like bird wings. Noble firs, Douglas-firs, and silver firs rose columnar and elegant among Engelmann spruce, western white pine, and mountain and western hemlocks.
September 17, 2024
Explore the McKay Creek Project, where BLM's proposed logging threatens some of the last mature forests near Portland. Learn about the risks to wildlife, water quality, and forest stability, and why a more sustainable approach to public land management is critical for our future.
September 9, 2024
Last weekend, I hiked to Aneroid Lake, deep in the Eagle Cap Wilderness in Northeast Oregon. Our hike started at the busy Wallowa Lake–its cabins, lodges, and campgrounds full of families enjoying the holiday weekend and last days of summer. A couple of miles and a few switchbacks later, we were high above the lake […]
September 3, 2024
After 17 years on staff, including the last 12 years as executive director, I am stepping down - excited to see a new leader take the mantle at this organization that means so much to all of us.
August 27, 2024
In July, Oregon Wild and our conservation allies negotiated a favorable resolution to a big timber sale in the Ochoco National Forest, near the Mill Creek Wilderness. The Forest Service issued its final decision adopting the agreement on August 12, 2024. We’re pleased that this decision will significantly enhance protection for old growth, roadless areas, […]
August 13, 2024
By Sara Pipinich My favorite thing to do on a Saturday morning is connect with nature. Recently, I joined an Oregon Wild hike to the Fall River. The Fall River is a spring-fed stream that flows near Sunriver in Central Oregon. The trail is a 4.4-mile loop filled with old-growth trees, clear streams, beautiful wildflowers, […]
August 12, 2024
When impact producer Alex Haraus – who hit the big time with his activism working to stop the Willow Oil Drilling Project in Alaska – wanted to get involved with protecting old-growth last summer, we were excited and figured we could use all the help we could get. Half a million public comments later, we […]
July 17, 2024
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