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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

Flat Country Repackaged? Thankfully, no.

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By: Madeline Cowen, Field and Organizing Manager In May of 2018, the Willamette National Forest first proposed the egregious Flat Country old-growth timber sale. The project proposed aggressively logging 2,000 acres of older forests in the McKenzie River headwaters, which provide fresh drinking water to hundreds of thousands of residents in the Willamette Valley. Astonished … Read more

Fire, Forests, and Collaboration on Dead Mountain

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By: Flora Booker, 2025 Summer Field and Events Coordinator On July 30th, Cascadia Wildlands staff and WildCAT volunteers joined a tour hosted by the Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative and the U.S. Forest Service to take a look at the proposed Dead Mountain Project. The collaborative is a mix of agency staff, environmental groups, timber industry … 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

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

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