ELEMENTAL Film Showing outside of Eugene, OR: at the US Basketball Academy near McKenzie Bridge, just above the initiation site of the 2020 Holiday Farm Fire on Friday, September 3, … Continue reading ELEMENTAL Film Showing near McKenzie Bridge — Sept 30 @ 6:00pm
ELEMENTAL Film Premier and Additional Showings in Eugene and Surrounding Area — Sept 2022
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 … Continue reading ELEMENTAL Film Premier and Additional Showings in Eugene and Surrounding Area — Sept 2022
Press Release: Mature and old-growth logging sale undermines Biden climate policy; threatens McKenzie River, habitat
August 2, 2022 — Today, old-growth forest and wildlife advocates provided the U.S. Forest Service the means to reconsider the pending Trump-era “Flat Country” timber sale in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest. The vast majority of the proposed logging would be in mature and old-growth forests, with over 1,000 acres of clearcutting, even though President Biden this year ordered his administration to prioritize conserving these forests as a crucial climate protection.
Opinion: Biden’s old-growth forest executive order has giant hole
by Bethany Cotton, Conservation Director for Cascadia Wildlands
Originally published in The Register-Guard, May 1, 2022.
Last month, in honor of Earth Day, President Biden signed an executive order on Strengthening the Nation’s Forests, Communities, and Local Economies. While the EO represents progress in its acknowledgement that old-growth and mature forests are essential bulwarks against the worst impacts of climate change, its stated commitment to science-based management, and its inclusion of indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge as key to sustainable forest management, it does not — yet — actually safeguard the last of these forests here at home.
Environmental groups sue over post-wildfire roadside logging plans
By Cassandra Profita (OPB)Originally published on OPB, Aug. 19, 2021 5:43 p.m. Lawsuit challenges plans to remove ‘danger’ trees along 400 miles of roads in Willamette National Forest Conservation groups … Continue reading Environmental groups sue over post-wildfire roadside logging plans
BLM approves 910-acre salvage harvest in Holiday Farm Fire area
by Adam Duvernay | The Register-GuardOriginally published June 3, 2021 The Bureau of Land Management has decided it will harvest trees from inside 910 acres scorched by the Holiday Farm … Continue reading BLM approves 910-acre salvage harvest in Holiday Farm Fire area
Op-Ed: Industrial Forest Management and the Holiday Farm Fire
By Dylan Plummer, Grassroots OrganizerOriginally published in the Register-Guard, Sept. 26, 2020. In the midst of a historic fire season that has left millions of acres burned, thousands of homes destroyed and … Continue reading Op-Ed: Industrial Forest Management and the Holiday Farm Fire