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Conservation Groups Challenge Feds’ Illegal 42 Divide Logging Plan in Western Oregon

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For immediate release: January 21, 2026 Contacts:   Peter Jensen, Staff Attorney, Cascadia Wildlands (385) 444-8631 | peter@cascwild.org Brenna Bell, Senior Staff Attorney, Crag Law Center (503) 233-8044 | brenna@crag.org John Persell, Senior Staff Attorney, Oregon Wild (503) 896-6472 | jp@oregonwild.org Janice Reid, President, Umpqua Watersheds (541) 672-7065 | janice@umpquawatersheds.org Roseburg, Oregon — Today, a … Read more

Legal Challenge: Feds More Than a Year Overdue in Designating Much Needed Critical Habitat for Wolverine

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For immediate release: January 14, 2026 Contacts:   Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, 503-327-4923, bethany@cascwild.orgMatthew Bishop, Western Environmental Law Center, 406-324-8011, bishop@westernlaw.orgLizzy Pennock, WildEarth Guardians, 406-830-8924, lpennock@wildearthguardians.orgDan Brister, Wilderness Watch, 406-542-2048, danb@wildernesswatch.orgConnie Poten, 406-274-4791, Footloose Montana, rattlefarm@gmail.comLarry Campbell, Friends of the Bitterroot, 406-821-3809, lcampbell@bitterroot.netJohn Meyer, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, 406-546-0149, john@cottonwoodlaw.orgKC York, Trap Free Montana, 406-218-1170, … Read more

Flat Country Repackaged? Thankfully, no.

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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

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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 

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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

Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon Coast Red Tree Voles

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For Immediate Release: July 17, 2025  Contacts:   Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (503) 327-4923, bethany@cascwild.org Ryan Shannon, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6407, rshannon@biologicaldiversity.org Joe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of Oregon, (503) 329-6026,  jliebezeit@birdallianceoregon.org Doug Heiken, Oregon Wild, (541) 344-0675-301, dh@oregonwild.org PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying protections to the … Read more

Forests Over Fascists—Don’t Shut the Public Out of Public Lands.

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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

Public Shut Out as Trump Administration Guts Bedrock Environmental Protections  

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Sweeping changes and loopholes impact public oversight of threatened ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:  Jade Hagan, PhD,  Bark , jade@bark-out.org. Grace Brahler, Cascadia Wildlands, grace@cascwild.org. July 8, 2025  EUGENE, OR 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 … Read more

URGENT: Take Action Against this 1.2 Million Acre Public Lands Sale

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Public lands are still for sale. 1.2 million acres of Bureau of Land Management Lands are the next target of the Big Beautiful Bill. Following intense public outcry opposing efforts to sell off treasured public lands to private interests, including your messages, the Senate funding package (or “Big Beautiful Bill”) will no longer include its … Read more

US Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Permit to Advance Oregon’s Elliott State Research Forest 

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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 / jlaughlin@cascwild.org  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 … Read more

Legal Intervention Defends Northern Spotted Owl Habitat 

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    May 21, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746, nick@cascwild.org Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, Center for Biological Diversity,  (971) 717-6425, cstewartfusek@biologicaldiversity.org Susan Jane Brown, Silvix Resources, (503) 680-5513, sjb@silvix.org Tom Wheeler, Environmental Protection Information Center,  (206) 356-8689, tom@wildcalifornia.org  Sydney Wilkins, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center,  (949) 812-0632, sydney@kswild.orgJohn Persell, Oregon Wild, (503) 896-6472, jp@oregonwild.orgDavid Woodsmall, Western Environmental Law Center (971) 285-3632, woodsmall@westernlaw.orgJoe Liebezeit, Bird Alliance of Oregon, (503) 329-6026, jliebezeit@birdallianceoregon.orgDave … Read more

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