INTERN-al UPDATE: A Snowy Field Check in Flat Country
By Courtney Kaltenbach Field Checking Intern for Cascadia Wildlands, Spring 2020 On a cool Saturday morning, over twenty people met in the Cascadia parking lot to prepare to go out on the first public field checking trip of the year into the Flat Country timber sale. Covid-19 had been declared an international pandemic three days … Continue reading INTERN-al UPDATE: A Snowy Field Check in Flat Country
Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Siskiyou Mountains Salamander
For Immediate Release, April 22, 2019 Contacts: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Jeff Miller, Center for Biological Diversity, (510) 499-9185, jmiller@biologicaldiversity.org George Sexton, KS Wild, (541) 778-8120, gs@kswild.org Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Salamander in California, Oregon SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and … Continue reading Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Siskiyou Mountains Salamander
Science Review Begins for Northwest Forest Plan Revision
For Immediate Release November 10, 2016 Northwest Forest Plan science synthesis review begins Will help inform forest management efforts in Pacific Northwest Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, 314-482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Susan Jane Brown, Western Environmental Law Center, 503-914-1323, brown@westernlaw.org Portland, Ore.–Today, the United States Forest Service released for public and heightened peer review its … Continue reading Science Review Begins for Northwest Forest Plan Revision
Wolf Tracks
Willamette Week by Aaron Mesh May 27, 2015 Nick Cady is thrilled to see the return of gray wolves to Oregon’s Cascade Range. He celebrated when the wolf dubbed OR-7 was spotted south of Crater Lake in 2011, more than 60 years after hunters wiped out the species from the state. But even … Continue reading Wolf Tracks
Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Abuse of “Ecological Forestry” on our Public Lands in Western Oregon
By Nick Cady, Legal Director The conservation community in the Northwest was incredibly excited by Cascadia’s legal victory over the White Castle timber sale. Not just because of the couple hundred acres of old growth forest that were saved from clearcutting, but because of the potentially important precedent the case set concerning logging old … Continue reading Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: The Abuse of “Ecological Forestry” on our Public Lands in Western Oregon
Cascadia Wildlands Files 60 Day Notice on Behalf of Threatened Bull Trout
For Immediate Release September 5, 2013 Contact: Nick Cady, Legal Director 541-434-1463 nick@cascwild.org Cascadia Wildlands to US Forest Service—18 Years is Too Long to Wait for Action on Bull Trout Eugene, OR—Cascadia Wildlands filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management over their failure to consult … Continue reading Cascadia Wildlands Files 60 Day Notice on Behalf of Threatened Bull Trout
Forest Service Supports Float Plane Ban on Waldo Lake
Register-Guard op-ed by Meg Mitchell On Jan. 31, the State’s Aviation Board will take public testimony on a new policy to allow floatplanes on Waldo Lake. At that hearing, speaking on behalf of the U.S. Forest Service, I will explain why we continue to support the state’s previous policy that banned the use of … Continue reading Forest Service Supports Float Plane Ban on Waldo Lake