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 … Continue reading Court Rejects Coast Range Clearcutting Project
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 … Continue reading Federal Land Agency Auctions Old-Growth Forest on Earth Day, Protesters Rally in Roseburg to Oppose the Project
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 … Continue reading After Years of Stagnation, Oregon’s Wolf Population Grows
The misleadingly-named ‘Fix Our Forest Act’ (H.R. 471) is bad news for forests — it seeks to greatly increase logging on federally managed public lands, all under the guise of wildfire suppression. We urgently need your help: Contact your U.S. Senators and urge them to oppose this destructive bill masquerading as wildfire reform. Take one … Continue reading Oppose the So-Called “Fix Our Forests Act”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 3, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, legal director, Cascadia Wildlands, 314-482-3746 nick@cascwild.orgSangye Ince-Johannsen, attorney, Western Environmental Law Center, 541-778-6626, sangyeij@westernlaw.org 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 … Continue reading Court: N126, one of the largest Oregon logging projects in decades, needs more detailed study to safeguard environment, imperiled species
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 … Continue reading Illegal IVM Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme Struck Down
Beavers are ecosystem engineers, and one of our best natural climate solutions. Please speak up today in support of HB 3932 to help ensure beavers can play that role in areas of Oregon where water quality is at risk. The Beavers and Water Quality Bill would close beaver hunting and trapping in waterways on public … Continue reading Tell the Oregon Legislature to Pass Beaver and Water Quality Bill HB 3932
Advocates Sue to Address Harm to Bull Trout and Chinook Salmon Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, bethany@cascwild.org 503.327.4923 John Persell, Oregon Wild jp@oregonwild.org 503.896.6472 Jennifer Fairbrother, Native Fish Society: jennifer@nativefishsociety.org 541.602.0696 Lindsey Hutchinson, Willamette Riverkeeper lindsey@willametteriverkeeper.org Hannah Goldblatt, Advocates for the West: hgoldblatt@advocateswest.org 503.506.5131 Nicole Funaro, Public Justice, nfunaro@publicjustice.net, 203.435.1722 EUGENE, OR — Today, conservation … Continue reading Eugene Water and Electric Board Violating Endangered Species Act
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has revived the deeply flawed Big League logging project in the Mohawk River and Upper Calapooia River watersheds near Marcola and Wendling, Oregon. The Bureau of Land Management wants to log 2,700 acres of forested watersheds and construct or renovate a whopping 133 miles of roads in the Big … Continue reading Help Strike Out the Big League Logging Project
On March 1, Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production,” calling on federal land managers to “fully exploit our domestic timber supply,” and instructing agencies to bypass existing federal laws and regulations that protect stately forests, rural communities, clean water, imperiled species, recreation, and the climate. Trump argues that dramatically increasing domestic timber … Continue reading Cascadia Wildlands Responds to Trump’s Big Timber Executive Order
