Press Release: Lawsuit Challenges FEMA-Funded Logging Road in Oregon’s Coast Range


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 17, 2023

Renewed Cook Creek Logging Will Harm Coho Salmon, Marbled Murrelets

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Cascadia Wildlands sued the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for authorizing federal disaster relief funding to rebuild Cook Creek Road, a logging road in Oregon’s Tillamook State Forest.

Press Release: Court Rules Logging Project Violates Endangered Species Act


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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.

Lawsuit Filed to Protect Red Tree Vole


For Immediate ReleaseMarch 25, 2021 Contact:Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746, emailNoah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495, emailDanielle Moser, Oregon Wild, (503) 975-0482, emailBob Sallinger, Portland Audubon, (503) … Continue reading Lawsuit Filed to Protect Red Tree Vole

Time’s up: Feds missed deadlines for years, harming imperiled northern spotted owls


For Immediate Release: December 8, 2020 Contact:Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, 314-482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Lawsuit filed against USFWS for failing to follow through with protecting the northern spotted owl Today, a group … Continue reading Time’s up: Feds missed deadlines for years, harming imperiled northern spotted owls

Cascadia Files Petition to Extend Wolf Monitoring


Legal Petition Seeks Extension of Federal Monitoring for Northern Rockies Wolves New Study: Hunting Likely Spurring Harmful Declines in Northern Rocky Wolves   VICTOR, Idaho — Five conservation groups filed … Continue reading Cascadia Files Petition to Extend Wolf Monitoring

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Northwest Prairie Bird Species


For Immediate Release, August 5, 2015   Contact:     Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463, nick@cascwild.org Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495, ngreenwald@biologicaldiversity.org   Lawsuit Launched to Gain … Continue reading Lawsuit Launched to Protect Northwest Prairie Bird Species

Nearly a Million Americans Speak Out Against Stripping Federal Protections From Wolves


Animal Welfare Institute * California Wolf Center * Cascadia Wildlands * Center for Biological Diversity * Conservation Northwest * Defenders of Wildlife * Earthjustice * Endangered Species Coalition Environmental Information … Continue reading Nearly a Million Americans Speak Out Against Stripping Federal Protections From Wolves