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For Immediate Release: June 24th, 2026 Contacts: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482 3746 Susan Jane M. Brown, Principal & Chief Legal Counsel, Silvix Resources Aloha Trout Timber Sale issued without valid management plan, violating key procedural law; precedent sows doubt about thousands of acres of timber harvest, leases, and permits across West … Read more
For Immediate ReleaseMay 15, 2026 Contacts:Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon WildJanice Reid, Conservation Chair, Umpqua WatershedsMeriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center Eugene, OR — Late yesterday, the US District Court ruled the Blue and Gold timber sale project on Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-administered land west of … Read more
For Immediate ReleaseMay 12, 2026 Contacts:Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon WildJanice Reid, Conservation Chair, Umpqua WatershedsMeriel Darzen, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center Yoncalla, OR — In response to illegal logging of old-growth forest recently documented in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Blue and Gold timber … Read more
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
The Trump administration is dismantling the public’s ability to engage with federal land management decisions — an alarming shift with especially dire consequences for Pacific Northwest forests. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which governs the environmental review process for public land management decisions and mandates public input in the review process, has been a repeat … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2025 Contact: Grace Brahler, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Jade Hagan, PhD, Bark Eugene, Ore. — The Trump administration is dismantling the public’s ability to engage with federal land management decisions — an alarming shift with especially dire consequences for Pacific Northwest forests. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which governs the environmental review … Read more
Conservationists Applaud Approval, Which Safeguards Imperiled Species and Old-growth Forests For immediate release: May 28, 2025 Contact: Josh Laughlin, Executive Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Today, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced it has issued a required permit to the Oregon Department of State Lands in order for the recently created Elliott State Research … Read more
Feds failed to consider harm to ecosystems and failed to follow required environmental review processes. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 Contacts: Peter Jensen, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 John Persell, Oregon WildOliver Stiefel, Crag Law Center Eugene, OR — Conservation groups secured a victory as a federal court rejected the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2025 Contact: Madeline Cowen, Grassroots Organizer, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Roseburg, OR — Today, Earth Day April 22nd, 2025 activists rallied in opposition to a Bureau of Land Management plan to log old-growth forests on federally-managed public lands in the Umpqua River watershed. Conservation groups filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2025 Contact(s): Bethany Cotton, Conservation Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Eugene, OR — Today, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) released in its annual report of the minimum 2024 gray wolf population and pack count for the state, which shows encouraging growth after years of stagnation. In both 2022 … Read more
Today, conservation organizations filed suit against the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) alleging ongoing violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For over sixteen years, the public utility has been out of legal compliance with federal requirements to provide proper fish passage for ESA-listed Chinook salmon and bull trout at the Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project and Trail Bridge Dam on the famed McKenzie River.
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