Noah Angell

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Flat Country Repackaged? Thankfully, no.

By: Madeline Cowen, Field and Organizing Manager In May of 2018, the Willamette National Forest first proposed the egregious Flat Country old-growth timber sale. The project proposed aggressively logging 2,000 acres of older forests in the McKenzie River headwaters, which provide fresh drinking water to hundreds of thousands of residents in the Willamette Valley. Astonished … Read more

Fire, Forests, and Collaboration on Dead Mountain

People standing in a forest

By: Flora Booker, 2025 Summer Field and Events Coordinator On July 30th, Cascadia Wildlands staff and WildCAT volunteers joined a tour hosted by the Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative and the U.S. Forest Service to take a look at the proposed Dead Mountain Project. The collaborative is a mix of agency staff, environmental groups, timber industry … Read more

Lawsuit Launched to Safeguard North Coast Red Tree Voles 

By: Dara Evans and Nicole Morshead, 2025 Summer Legal Interns   Among the old-growth forests along Oregon’s North coast lives a population of delightful little creatures that frolic in the treetops feasting on conifer needles and rarely ever touching the ground. Weighing less than two ounces, these North Coast red tree voles are a unique population … Read more