Press Release: Lawsuit Launched Against Road Reopening in Oregon’s Tillamook State Forest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 8, 2023 Contacts:Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463, nick@cascwild.org Meg Townsend, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6409, mtownsend@biologicaldiversity.org Renewed Cook Creek Logging Will Harm Coho Salmon, Marbled Murrelets … Continue reading Press Release: Lawsuit Launched Against Road Reopening in Oregon’s Tillamook State Forest
Press Release: Legal Agreement Will Bring New Protections From Logging to Oregon Coast Coho Salmon
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 23, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore.— Resolving multiyear litigation over the harms of logging to coho salmon, conservation groups reached an agreement today with the Oregon Department of Forestry to greatly expand stream buffers across more than half a million acres of the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests.
Press Release: Conservationists Challenge Coast Range Logging Plan
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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: Fishing, Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Coho Salmon from Oregon State Forest Logging
For immediate release June 13, 2018 Contact: Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495, ngreenwald@biologicaldiversity.org Glen Spain, PCFFA and IFR, (541) 689-2000, fish1ifr@aol.com Mark Sherwood, Native Fish Society, (303) … Continue reading Press Release: Fishing, Conservation Groups Sue to Protect Coho Salmon from Oregon State Forest Logging