by Dylan Plummer, CW Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in The Register-Guard, March 27, 2021. Pacific Northwest forests are crisscrossed with roads — enough logging roads alone to circle the planet 13 times. … Continue reading Op-Ed: The Slippery Slope of Hazard-Tree Logging
Has Eugene, Oregon, found a ‘superpower’ for climate action?
Article by Carl SegerstromOriginally published March 26, 2021, High Country News The city’s eyeing changes to its natural gas contract to fund climate ambitions. Tyee Williams has been on the … Continue reading Has Eugene, Oregon, found a ‘superpower’ for climate action?
Post-wildfire logging is moving fast, raising environmental concerns
By Cassandra Profita (OPB)Originally published on OPB. March 12, 2021 6 a.m. Special rules for logging after wildfire allow more trees to be cut faster with fewer restrictions Jon Haas … Continue reading Post-wildfire logging is moving fast, raising environmental concerns
Op-Ed: NW Natural is Gaslighting Oregonians
by Dylan Plummer, CW Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in The Register-Guard, Feb. 27, 2021. NW Natural is gaslighting the city of Eugene and holding our climate goals hostage in the process. The … Continue reading Op-Ed: NW Natural is Gaslighting Oregonians
Op-Ed: Nothing Recovers from Massive Timber Grab
by Dylan Plummer, CW Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in The Register-Guard, Jan. 23, 2021. The ferns were sprouting already. Green fronds poked out in stark contrast with the charred trees of … Continue reading Op-Ed: Nothing Recovers from Massive Timber Grab
Op-Ed: 20/20 Vision For a Wilder Cascadia
By Dylan Plummer, CW Grassroots Organizer Originally published in The Register-Guard, Dec. 26, 2020. Though much has been lost since European settlement brought extractive industry to the shores of the … Continue reading Op-Ed: 20/20 Vision For a Wilder Cascadia
Op-ed: Hope for Action Beyond Climate Deferral
By Dylan Plummer, CW Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in The Register-Guard, Nov. 28, 2020. In Eugene, the home of the tree-hugger, a new kind of climate denial is taking shape — climate … Continue reading Op-ed: Hope for Action Beyond Climate Deferral
Lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating environmental law with Portland tear gas deployment
By Monica Samayoa (OPB)Article published by OPB, Oct. 21, 2020 6:38 a.m. Several Oregon environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday over its use of tear gas to control crowds … Continue reading Lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating environmental law with Portland tear gas deployment
Op-Ed: Same Playbook, Different Business
By Dylan Plummer, Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in the Register-Guard, Oct. 24, 2020. People often ask why it is that the timber industry and environmentalists cannot seem to agree on anything. … Continue reading Op-Ed: Same Playbook, Different Business
Environmental, public health, and social justice groups file legal challenge against DHS citing lack of analysis on impacts of teargas to human health and the environment
For Immediate Release:October 20, 2020 Media Contacts:Dylan Plummer, Grassroots Organizer, Cascadia Wildlands; dylan@cascwild.org, 541.531.1858Doug Brown, Communications Strategist, ACLU of Oregon; dbrown@aclu-or.org, 7 34.239.2706 Broad Coalition of Organizations Sue Feds for … Continue reading Environmental, public health, and social justice groups file legal challenge against DHS citing lack of analysis on impacts of teargas to human health and the environment