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Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Attempt to Stop Protecting Imperiled Species’ Habitat

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For Immediate Release: July 15th, 2026 Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Conservation Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Pete Frost, Staff Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center Tom Wheeler, Executive Director, EPIC Sydney Wilkins, Conservation Attorney, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center San Francisco, CA — Yesterday, conservation groups and a fishing guide filed suit in federal court in San Francisco to challenge the … Read more

New Lawsuit Claims Oregon Timber Sale is Invalid After Congressional Overreach 

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For Immediate Release: June 24th, 2026 Contacts: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482 3746 Susan Jane M. Brown, Principal & Chief Legal Counsel, Silvix Resources Aloha Trout Timber Sale issued without valid management plan, violating key procedural law; precedent sows doubt about  thousands of acres of timber harvest, leases, and permits across West … Read more

Conservation Organizations Hail Ruling That Halts Old-Growth Forest Logging at the Blue and Gold Timber Sale in the Oregon Coast Range

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For Immediate ReleaseMay 15, 2026 Contacts:Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon WildJanice Reid, Conservation Chair, Umpqua WatershedsMeriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center Eugene, OR — Late yesterday, the US District Court ruled the Blue and Gold timber sale project on Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-administered land west of … Read more

Conservation Organizations File for a Temporary Restraining Order in Response to Bureau of Land Management’s Illegal Old-Growth Forest Logging Near Yoncalla

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For Immediate ReleaseMay 12, 2026 Contacts:Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon WildJanice Reid, Conservation Chair, Umpqua WatershedsMeriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center Yoncalla, OR — In response to illegal logging of old-growth forest recently documented in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Blue and Gold timber … Read more

Advocates Ask Feds to Make EWEB Consider Volitional Fish Passage at Trail Bridge Dam

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The Trail Bridge dam sits at the end of the frame. The dark blue water of the Mckenzie runs with green trees on the shore.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2026  Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541)-534-1463 Jennifer Fairbrother, Native Fish Society Lindsey Hutchison, Willamette Riverkeeper Eugene, OR — Today, on Earth Day, Advocates submitted a petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting a cost and viability comparison of volitional passage at the Trail Bridge Dam on the McKenzie River, and interim improvements … Read more

Conservation Groups Challenge Feds’ Illegal 42 Divide Logging Plan in Western Oregon

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2026  Contacts: Peter Jensen, Staff Attorney, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Brenna Bell, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon Wild Janice Reid, President, Umpqua Watersheds Roseburg, Oregon — Today, a coalition of conservation organizations filed suit challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “42 Divide … Read more

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

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2026  Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Matthew Bishop, Western Environmental Law CenterLizzy Pennock, WildEarth GuardiansDan Brister, Wilderness WatchConnie Poten, Footloose MontanaLarry Campbell, Friends of the BitterrootJohn Meyer, Cottonwood Environmental Law CenterKC York, Trap Free MontanaMike Garrity, Alliance for the Wild RockiesJeff Juel, Friends of the ClearwaterKeith Hammer, Swan View … Read more

Lawsuit Launched to Safeguard North Coast Red Tree Voles 

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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

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2025  Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Ryan Shannon, Center for Biological Diversity Joe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of Oregon Doug Heiken, Oregon Wild PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the imperiled North Oregon Coast population of red tree voles. The … Read more

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

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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  

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2025  Contact:  Grace Brahler, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Jade Hagan, PhD,  Bark  Eugene, Ore. — 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 … Read more

Basecamp 2025 at Little River

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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

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