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Contact for more information: Lindsey Hutchison, Willamette RiverkeeperPeter Jensen, Cascadia WildlandsJohn Persell, Oregon Wild In response to legal pressure, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) withdrew the proposed 4,600-acre Big League logging project in the Calapooia and Mohawk River Watersheds northeast of Eugene. In November, conservation organizations Willamette Riverkeeper, Cascadia Wildlands, and Oregon Wild challenged the the […]
January 22, 2024
When you’re out enjoying the spectacular national forests in Oregon, you’re probably not thinking about laws passed decades ago to require forest plans for these areas. But these plans, and the subsequent standards, guidelines, designations, and policies they create, make a huge difference in what you’ll experience at your favorite trail, river, or picnic spot. […]
December 21, 2023
Contact for more information Steve Pedery, Oregon WildRandi Spivak, Center for Biological DiversityJackson Chiappinelli, EarthjusticeMark Morgenstein, Environment AmericaJosh Mogerman, NRDCIan Brickey, Sierra Club Zack Porter, Standing TreesHannah Smay, WildEarth Guardians According to reports, the Biden administration will announce Tuesday a proposed nationwide forest plan amendment to advance protections for the last remaining old-growth trees in U.S. national […]
December 19, 2023
Contact for more information Steve Pedery, Conservation Director Today, the Forest Service took the first official step in its long-rumored effort to amend the 1994 Northwest Forest Plan. Oregon Wild Conservation Director Steve Pedery: The visionary Northwest Forest Plan was intended to protect and restore mature and old-growth forests and imperiled salmon and wildlife on federal public […]
December 17, 2023
Waldo Lake and the forests and trails all around it is one of my “happy places.” Every summer, I love to paddle and swim in the clear, deep blue water and pick huckleberries for camp breakfast. I’ve hiked through the young forest on the north side of the lake, recovering slowly from the Charlton Fire […]
November 16, 2023
A new report published in Nature underscores the need to preserve existing forests rather than just planting new trees to fight climate change. The report, from 200 scientists worldwide, stated that allowing forests to reach maturity and become old-growth has tremendous carbon storage and biodiversity conservation potential — a win-win natural climate solution. The report […]
November 14, 2023
Contact for more information John Persell, Staff Attorney, Oregon WildNick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands Today, conservation organizations Willamette Riverkeeper, Cascadia Wildlands, and Oregon Wild filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), challenging the agency’s authorization of the approximately 4,600-acre Big League Project in the Calapooia and Mohawk River Watersheds northeast of Eugene. […]
November 6, 2023
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 […]
October 10, 2023
Today, the NASA DEVELOP Program released an analysis of how much of Oregon’s Coast Range was logged in the past 20 years in drinking watersheds. The maps and analysis show clearcutting across substantial portions of these watersheds. “The team’s analysis on clearcutting found that 26% of the forested area within the 80 selected watersheds experienced clearcutting between […]
September 12, 2023
By John Cissel Visitors to old-growth forests may know that these forests are ecologically important, but for most people, myself included, it is the more emotive aspects of an old forest that inspire and motivate us. We are struck by the sheer beauty of the stout, cinnamon tree trunks; the shafts of sunlight highlighting a […]
July 28, 2023
Oregon politics and legislating have been one heck of a rollercoaster over the last several years. We’ve had walkouts. There have been truck rallies. We saw a sitting legislator let armed protesters into the Capitol just weeks before the January 6 insurrection. Did I mention that we’ve seen walkouts? Oh yeah, and we had millionaires […]
June 28, 2023
By Helena Virga It seems unimaginable that the Forest Service would target mature and old-growth forests for logging in the Mt. Hood National Forest, threatening vital carbon-storing forests and precious spotted owl habitat, and degrading the recreation values that attract so many to the beautiful areas around the mountain. Yet, the Forest Service’s Grasshopper Project […]
June 27, 2023
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