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May 12 WildChat Zoom Login Info

Cascadia WildChat: Wildfire Science and Messaging WHEN |  Tuesday, May 12, 2020 @ 5:00 pm Thank you for signing up! Below is the Zoom meeting information you will need to join in. This information is also in an email that is headed for your inbox now. ____________________________________________________________ Cascadia Wildlands is inviting you to a scheduled … Read more

FIELD REPORT / BLOG: In the Forest in the Age of COVID-19

By Gabe Scott Cascadia Wildlands In-house Counsel We’ve been keeping our eyes on the forests during the Pandemic. The crisis and response is revealing hidden priorities, shifting alliances, and revealing inequities. The public land agencies, the Forest Service and BLM, and the State governments, have been closing recreation, canceling restoration, and moving forward with logging … Read more

WildChats with Cascadia!

During the COVID-19 pandemic and this time of social distancing, Cascadia Wildlands is still committed to connecting with our community. While we can’t meet in person, connect with us online for WildChats with Cascadia staff, volunteers and allies! Join the Cascadia team for campaign deep dives, skill-building workshops and panels featuring experts and stakeholders in … Read more

Salem Debacle Kicks Off a Very Consequential Year

A Recap of What Went Down This Legislative Session by Alexander Harris, Forest Policy Consultant for Cascadia Wildlands Last week, the Oregon Legislature ended its short session early, lacking the requisite number of legislators to pass any of the bills being considered. Two weeks prior, Republican members of the State House and Senate fled the … Read more

Field Trip to Flat Country Timber Sale — March 14, 2020

* The deadline for this action has past. * This hike has already happened. Our field checking intern wrote up a blog post from the visit to Flat Country. Check it out! Join Cascadia Wildlands for a visit to the Flat Country timber sale, a 5,000 acre logging proposal in the Willamette National Forest. We … Read more

Umpqua Chronicles Vol 3: The Eye of God

by Gabriel Scott Cascadia’s forests have a mystic aspect. All the things you know, or think that you know, about the forest are nothing as compared with the layers and layers of wonders to be discovered. Sometimes you’ll be hiking along, thinking about one thing, and then— wham!— the landscape hits in some unexpected way and … Read more

Umpqua Chronicles Vol.2 – Into the woods

While the North Umpqua is the most dramatic, the Umpqua Sweets project would log along many smaller streams. Unit 25-2-31B, just up the Rock Creek road from the river, is located along Rock, McComas, and Kelley Creeks just north of Idylide. The road cuts off into  a nice little neighborhood there of a handful of homes. … Read more

Umpqua Sweets Chronicles Vol 1: Down by the Riverside

by Gabriel Scott, In-House Counsel Is old growth clearcutting on public lands making a comeback on the North Umpqua River? Thus seems to say the BLM in its latest timber sale announcement, called “Umpqua Sweets.” While BLM’s official announcement is itself so vague and legalistic as to melt into nothing, recent groundtruthing of their proposed logging units … Read more

Legal Victory for Marbled Murrelets in Oregon!

August 7, 2019 — An Oregon judge has issued a decision concluding the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission violated Oregon law in denying a petition filed by five conservation groups demanding the commission uplist the murrelet from threatened to endangered under the Oregon Endangered Species Act.