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Even a lover of ancient forests likes being on top of the world. Lingering on Mount June, I watch turkey vultures tipping wings at eye-level.
June 18, 2024
At Oregon Wild’s 50th Anniversary gala events in May, we announced the recipient of the 2024 Tim Lillebo Wildlands Warrior Award: Ann Vileisis. Ann Vileisis was originally nominated by Wendell Wood the first year we gave this award, in 2015. It was quite a lengthy nomination. He noted that, “as President of the Kalmiopsis Audubon […]
May 21, 2024
By: Marina Richie Beloved Metolius RiverEvery Wild Place Has a Story Spring wildflowers trickle like snowmelt from Lookout Mountain. By July, blooms will flood sagebrush meadows in lupine, paintbrush, penstemon, and scarlet gilia. Here, elk shelter within shady fir and pine forests. Pileated woodpeckers drum on life-giving dead trees. Colossal ponderosas grace the lower ridges. […]
May 6, 2024
By: Marina Richie Read other posts in this series: Beloved Metolius RiverLookout Mountain: Roadless Beacon of the OchocosHardesty Mountain Roadless Area: Vigilance, Close Calls, & HeroesSaving the Big Trees of Badger Creek as Wilderness – A Lucky BreakNorth Fork Umatilla Wilderness: Saved by a Trout? Hiking into a designated wilderness on a national forest, I […]
February 5, 2024
Washington, D.C. Contact for more information Doug Heiken, Oregon WildKristen Boyles, EarthjusticeSusan Jane Brown, Silvix ResourcesDave Willis, Soda Mountain Wilderness CouncilJoseph Vaile, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center Second federal appeals court protects Monument and the rare and beautiful plant and animal species that live there. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the legality of an […]
July 18, 2023
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