2008: We brokered a settlement agreement with the timber industry and Malheur National Forest that protects thousands of acres of burned forests from logging after the 2006 Shake Table fire complex near John Day.
2007: We halted the Black Crater post-fire timber sale near Sisters, Oregon, on the Deschutes National Forest through a settlement agreement that protected nearly 200 acres of burned forests that lie in a designated late successional reserved and within critical habitat for threatened northern spotted owls.
We won a lawsuit in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that challenged a US Fish and Wildlife Service biological opinion that approved older forest logging in southwest Oregon. The appeals court found that the agency failed to quantify how many endangered northern spotted owls the logging would kill.
We worked with the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw on a management strategy for a proposed Coos Tribal Forest on 40,000 acres of what is now the Siuslaw National Forest in the Oregon Coast Range.
We won the government’s appeal of our Timbered Rock lawsuit, setting precedent that restricts logging of burned forests old-growth reserves.
Represented by the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, we forced the withdraw of six biological opinions issued by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the federal agency in charge of recovering endangered species. These withdraws halted plans to log tens of thousands of acres of older forest essential to northern spotted owl recovery.
Represented by the the Western Environmental Law Center, we won a lawsuit that challenged the Bush administrations National Forest Management Act regulations that would have weakened environmental protection measures in the statute.
We engaged with the local utility over dam reliscensing on the famed McKenzie River. Our participation has lead to the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) to consider installing a fish ladder at Trailbridge dam that would open up miles of spawning habitat for endangered bull trout and Chinook salmon.
In response to a 2004 petition and two lawsuits brought by Cascadia Wildlands and partner conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined in March 2007 that the Siskiyou Mountains and Scott Bar salamanders may warrant protection as threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act and initiated a 12 month review of their status. Both species live in mature and old-growth forests such as those that once covered much of the Northwest.
