Logging of “climate forests” across the US continues despite Biden executive order For immediate releaseNovember 17, 2022 Contact:Madeline Cowen, Cascadia WildlandsArran Robertson, Oregon Wild, (971) 241-0103Brenna Bell, 350 PDX Portland, … Continue reading Press Release: Protestors Call Out Biden’s Mature and Old-Growth Logging Sales at Portland Forest Service Office
Press Release: U.S. Agencies Undermine Biden’s Public Forest Protection Pledge with Logging Plans, According to Report
For immediate releaseNovember 14, 2022 Contact:Madeline Cowen, Cascadia Wildlands, 206-653-4959Randi Spivak, Center for Biological Diversity, (310) 779-4894 EUGENE, OR – As world leaders gather to address the climate crisis, U.S. … Continue reading Press Release: U.S. Agencies Undermine Biden’s Public Forest Protection Pledge with Logging Plans, According to Report
Press Release: Forest Advocates Knock out Massive Trump Post-fire Logging Loophole
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENovember 10, 2022 Contacts:Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center, 503-914-1323Josh Laughlin, Cascadia Wildlands, 541-844-8182George Sexton, Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild), 541-778-8120 This month, conservation groups finalized … Continue reading Press Release: Forest Advocates Knock out Massive Trump Post-fire Logging Loophole
Press Release: Over 100 “Kayaktivists” and Community Members Protest Old-Growth Logging
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October 8, 2022
Leaburg, OREGON — Today, a “kayaktivist” flotilla of over 100 concerned community members rallied on the McKenzie River to protest an old-growth logging sale in the Willamette National Forest. The Flat Country project, proposed by the U.S. Forest Service, targets over 2,000 acres of old-growth and mature forests for logging across the headwaters of the McKenzie River. The agency could auction the old growth to be cut at any moment. Attendees held up signs from boats and kayaks, and unfurled a large banner declaring “Forest Defense is Watershed Defense”, to draw attention to the logging sale’s impact on downstream drinking water.
Press Release: Court Rules Logging Project Violates Endangered Species Act
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October 4, 2022
Late Friday, a judge in the District Court for the District of Oregon ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) justification for Bureau of Land Management (Bureau) timber sales totaling nearly 18,000 acres including in old growth forest violated the Endangered Species Act. The judge ruled against the Service’s claim that old-growth logging in the Poor Windy and Evans Creek timber sales on 15,848 acres of threatened northern spotted owl habitat would not harm the imperiled bird species.
Press Release: Conservationists Challenge Coast Range Logging Plan
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September 8, 2022
Eugene, OR — Today, Oregon-based conservation organizations Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s (“BLM”) Siuslaw Field Office’s plan to log 13,225 acres of public forests in the coast range foothills west of Eugene. The agency’s Siuslaw HLB (“Harvest Land Base”) Project will clearcut these mature and old-growth forests that border many communities and residences west of Eugene. The BLM admits that this logging will increase fire hazard risks, slope instability and landslide risks, and drinking water contamination for these communities, but dismissed concerns raised about these impacts as insignificant.
Press Release: Lawsuit Challenges Washington’s Failure to Enact Wolf Management Rules
August 5, 2022 — Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit today asking a state court to enforce Gov. Jay Inslee’s order directing state wildlife officials to enact wolf management rules. The rules should have outlined what steps must be taken before wolves can be killed for conflict with livestock.
Press Release: Legal Warning Challenges Plan to Log Thousands of Acres of Oregon’s Old-Growth Forest Reserves
July 5, 2022 — A coalition of Oregon conservation organizations notified the Bureau of Land Management today it intends to sue the agency to protect marbled murrelets and coastal martens from a plan by the agency to log thousands of acres of old-growth forest in areas designated as late-successional reserves. The reserves were designated as part of the Northwest Forest Plan to protect the two threatened species, as well as hundreds of others.
Press Release: Court Halts Logging of Elliott State Forest Tract Sold to Private Timber Company
June 28, 2022 — Today, a U.S. District Court judge issued a ruling preventing Scott Timber from clearcutting old growth forest previously part of the Elliott State Forest. The court found that the proposed logging of the “Benson Ridge” parcel by the subsidiary of Roseburg Forest Products would harm and harass threatened marbled murrelets, in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act. The court’s ruling permanently enjoins logging of the occupied murrelet habitat.