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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

URGENT: Take Action Against this 1.2 Million Acre Public Lands Sale

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Public lands are still for sale. 1.2 million acres of Bureau of Land Management Lands are the next target of the Big Beautiful Bill. Following intense public outcry opposing efforts to sell off treasured public lands to private interests, including your messages, the Senate funding package (or “Big Beautiful Bill”) will no longer include its … Read more

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

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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 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 Research … Read more

Legal Intervention Defends Northern Spotted Owl Habitat 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    May 21, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, Center for Biological DiversitySusan Jane Brown, Silvix ResourcesTom Wheeler, Environmental Protection Information CenterSydney Wilkins, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands CenterJohn Persell, Oregon WildDavid Woodsmall, Western Environmental Law CenterJoe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of OregonDave Werntz, Conservation NorthwestKimberly Baker, Klamath Forest Alliance Eugene, Ore.— Conservation groups … Read more

Court Rejects Coast Range Clearcutting Project

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Feds failed to consider harm to ecosystems and failed to follow required environmental review processes. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 Contacts: Peter Jensen, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 John Persell, Oregon WildOliver Stiefel, Crag Law Center Eugene, OR — Conservation groups secured a victory as a federal court rejected the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) … Read more

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

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2025 Contact:  Madeline Cowen, Grassroots Organizer, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 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 River watershed. Conservation groups filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management … Read more

After Years of Stagnation, Oregon’s Wolf Population Grows

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2025 Contact(s):  Bethany Cotton, Conservation Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463  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 … Read more

Court: N126, One of the Largest Oregon Logging Projects in Decades, Needs More Detailed Study to Safeguard Environment, Imperiled Species

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 3, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Sangye Ince-Johannsen, Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center Eugene, OR — In response to a challenge brought by Cascadia Wildlands and the Western Environmental Law Center, an Oregon federal district court on Monday held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law in authorizing the N126 … Read more

Illegal IVM Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme Struck Down

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For Immediate Release April 1, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 George Sexton, Conservation Director, KS Wild John Persell, Staff Attorney, Oregon Wild Meriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center Medford, OR — On March 31, 2025, Federal District Court Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Integrated … Read more

Tell the Oregon Senate to Pass Beaver and Water Quality Bill HB 3932 

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Speak up for Oregon’s beavers and waterways – HB 3932 passed the House and is now up for a hearing in the Senate. Express your support for this natural solution to a tricky conservation issue today! Beavers are ecosystem engineers, and one of our best natural climate solutions. The Beavers and Water Quality Bill would … Read more

Eugene Water and Electric Board Violating Endangered Species Act  

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Today, conservation organizations filed suit against the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) alleging ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For over sixteen years, the public utility has been out of legal compliance with federal requirements to provide proper fish passage for ESA-listed Chinook salmon and bull trout at the Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project and Trail Bridge Dam on the famed McKenzie River. 

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