Home Page Hot Topic

{{custom_field.photo_credit}}

Legal Challenge: Feds More Than a Year Overdue in Designating Much Needed Critical Habitat for Wolverine

by

For immediate release: January 14, 2026 Contacts:   Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, 503-327-4923, bethany@cascwild.orgMatthew Bishop, Western Environmental Law Center, 406-324-8011, bishop@westernlaw.orgLizzy Pennock, WildEarth Guardians, 406-830-8924, lpennock@wildearthguardians.orgDan Brister, Wilderness Watch, 406-542-2048, danb@wildernesswatch.orgConnie Poten, 406-274-4791, Footloose Montana, rattlefarm@gmail.comLarry Campbell, Friends of the Bitterroot, 406-821-3809, lcampbell@bitterroot.netJohn Meyer, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, 406-546-0149, john@cottonwoodlaw.orgKC York, Trap Free Montana, 406-218-1170, … Read more

Lawsuit Launched to Safeguard North Coast Red Tree Voles 

by

By: Dara Evans and Nicole Morshead, 2025 Summer Legal Interns   Among the old-growth forests along Oregon’s North coast lives a population of delightful little creatures that frolic in the treetops feasting on conifer needles and rarely ever touching the ground. Weighing less than two ounces, these North Coast red tree voles are a unique population … Read more

Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon Coast Red Tree Voles

by

For Immediate Release, July 17, 2025  Contact:   Ryan Shannon, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6407, rshannon@biologicaldiversity.org Joe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of Oregon, (503) 329-6026, jliebezeit@birdallianceoregon.orgDoug Heiken, Oregon Wild, (541) 344-0675 x 301, dh@oregonwild.orgBethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (503) 327-4923, bethany@cascwild.org PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the imperiled … Read more

Forests Over Fascists—Don’t Shut the Public Out of Public Lands.

by

The Trump administration is dismantling the public’s ability to engage with federal land management decisions — an alarming shift with especially dire consequences for Pacific Northwest  forests. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which governs the environmental review process for public land management decisions and mandates public input in the review process, has been a repeat … Read more

Public Shut Out as Trump Administration Guts Bedrock Environmental Protections  

by

Sweeping changes and loopholes impact public oversight of threatened ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Jade Hagan, PhD,  Bark , jade@bark-out.org. Grace Brahler, Cascadia Wildlands, grace@cascwild.org. July 8, 2025  EUGENE, OR The Trump administration is dismantling the public’s ability to engage with federal land management decisions  — an alarming shift with especially dire consequences for Pacific … Read more

Basecamp 2025 at Little River

by

By Flora Booker, 2025 Summer Field and Events Coordinator From June 20 to 23, Cascadia Wildlands held our biggest volunteer event of the year: the WildCAT Field Checking Basecamp. Volunteers gathered near Glide, Oregon, to help stop logging in some of the most breathtaking old-growth ecosystems in the Little River watershed. The area lies within the … Read more

US Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Permit to Advance Oregon’s Elliott State Research Forest 

by

Conservationists Applaud Approval, Which Safeguards Imperiled Species and Old-growth Forests  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  May 28, 2025  Contact: Josh Laughlin, Executive Director, Cascadia Wildlands, 541.434.1463 / jlaughlin@cascwild.org  Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has issued a required permit to the Oregon Department of State Lands in order for the recently created Elliott State … Read more

Legal Intervention Defends Northern Spotted Owl Habitat 

by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    May 21, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, Center for Biological Diversity,  (971) 717-6425, cstewartfusek@biologicaldiversity.org Susan Jane Brown, Silvix Resources, (503) 680-5513, sjb@silvix.org Tom Wheeler, Environmental Protection Information Center,  (206) 356-8689, tom@wildcalifornia.org  Sydney Wilkins, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center,  (949) 812-0632, sydney@kswild.orgJohn Persell, Oregon Wild, (503) 896-6472, jp@oregonwild.orgDavid Woodsmall, Western Environmental Law Center (971) 285-3632, woodsmall@westernlaw.orgJoe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of Oregon, (503) 329-6026, jliebezeit@birdallianceoregon.orgDave … Read more

Court Rejects Coast Range Clearcutting Project

by

Feds failed to consider harm to ecosystems and failed to follow required environmental review processes. April 25, 2025 Peter Jensen, Cascadia Wildlands peter@cascwild.org (385) 444-8631John Persell, Oregon Wild jp@oregonwild.org (503) 896-6472Oliver Stiefel, Crag Law Center, oliver@crag.org (503) 227-2212 Eugene, OR — Conservation groups secured a victory as a federal court rejected the Bureau of Land … Read more

Federal Land Agency Auctions Old-Growth Forest on Earth Day, Protesters Rally in Roseburg to Oppose the Project

by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2025 CONTACT: Madeline Cowen, Grassroots Organizer Cascadia Wildlands, madeline@cascwild.org, 206-653-4959 PHOTOS: to be updated throughout the day and evening of April 22, 2025 HERE.  Roseburg, OR — Today, Earth Day April 22nd, 2025 activists rallied in opposition to a Bureau of Land Management plan to log old-growth forests on federally-managed public lands in the Umpqua … Read more

After Years of Stagnation, Oregon’s Wolf Population Grows

by

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2025 Eugene, OR — Today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) released in its annual report of the minimum 2024 gray wolf population and pack count for the state, which shows encouraging growth after years of stagnation. In both 2022 and 2023 the minimum wolf count was just … Read more

Illegal IVM Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme Struck Down

by
A person stands next to and looks up at a tree.

April 1, 2025 Medford Oregon For Immediate Release Contact: George Sexton, Conservation Director KS Wild (541) 778-8120 gs@kswild.orgNick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands (314) 482-3746 nick@cascwild.orgJohn Persell, Staff Attorney, Oregon Wild (503) 896-6472 jp@oregonwild.orgMeriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center (503) 525-2725 meriel@crag.org On March 31, 2025, Federal District Court Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the … Read more

Cascadia Wildlands

P.O. Box 10455

Eugene, OR 97440

541.434.1463

Join Cascadia

Get Involved
Programs
Jobs
Media
About Us
Donate

Update your contact or donation information here.

Federal non-profit tax ID # 93-1293019

Stay Connected

Gold Transparency 2026 logo