Join FUSEE, Cascadia Wildlands, Northwest Youth Corps, and Oregon Wild in welcoming ELEMENTAL to Eugene on Friday, September 9 at 6:00 pm at the Art House (previously Bijou Cinemas). The film screening will be followed by a short reception with guest speakers, and more information from local nonprofit organizations and fire experts on home hardening and … Continue reading ELEMENTAL Film Premier and Additional Showings in Eugene and Surrounding Area — Sept 2022
April 13, 2021 — Today, over twenty conservation and climate justice organizations sent a letter to Cabinet Secretaries Deb Haaland of the Department of the Interior and Tom Vilsack of the Department of Agriculture opposing the sweeping post-fire roadside logging proposed or actively being carried out by their respective agencies. The organizations are calling for an end to the blanket prescription linear clearcuts within the perimeters of the 2020 Labor Day wildfires, and a halt to the use of Categorical Exclusions (CE) by federal land management agencies to bypass environmental review and public participation. These clearcuts are up to 200 feet wide on both sides of roadways, adding up to tens of thousands of acres of clearcuts in addition to the hundreds of thousands of acres of private land clearcuts and proposed public lands post-fire logging.
