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Press Release: Lane County Board of Commissioners Withdraws Membership from Extreme Timber Lobby Group

July 31, 2025June 11, 2019 by Josh

June 11, 2019 — Today, the Lane County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 to withdraw its membership from the Association of O&C Counties (AOCC), an extreme timber lobby group. Newly elected commissioner Heather Buch brought forward the motion to remove Lane County’s funding, totaling $79,444 for 2019-2020, and membership in the AOCC. Commissioner Jay Bozievich was the lone commissioner to oppose the withdrawal.

Cascadia Wildlands and Partners in Front of Oregon Supreme Court to Protect the Elliott State Forest

July 31, 2025June 11, 2019 by nsc425

by Noah Mikell, Cascadia Wildlands Summer Legal Intern Last week we kicked off our summer as Cascadia Wildlands’ latest legal interns by attending oral arguments in the Oregon Supreme Court! It couldn’t have been better timing that we started our internships just as attorneys Dan Kruse and Nick Cady were putting the final touches on … Read more

Visit the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Area! — August 24, 2019

May 21, 2019 by kaley

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Visit the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Area! — July 13, 2019

May 21, 2019 by kaley

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Visit the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Area! — June 1, 2019

May 21, 2019 by kaley

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Field Checking 101 in the Breitenbush Hwy 46 Timber Sale

May 19, 2019 by sam

On Saturday, May 25th join Cascadia Wildland’s volunteer WildCAT team for a full day of field checking in the Breitenbush Hwy 46 Timber Sale! Register here to join! Our field checking trainings cover the basics of timber sale monitoring, how to read timber sale proposal and what to look for when exploring a timber … Read more

Summer GIS Internship Position

May 7, 2019 by sam

Contact: Sam Krop, Grassroots Organizer Cascadia Wildlands PO Box 10455 Eugene, Oregon 97440 Phone: (541) 434-1463 Email: sam@cascwild.org About Cascadia Wildlands -Cascadia Wildlands is a non-profit environmental organization with an offices in Eugene, Oregon. Cascadia is dedicated to defending the forests, waters and wildlife of the Cascadia bioregion by monitoring environmentally destructive government actions and … Read more

Press Release: Critical Jordan Cove LNG Permit Denied by Oregon

July 31, 2025May 6, 2019 by kaley

May 6, 2019 — The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today delivered a potentially fatal blow to the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline which has faced fierce opposition for more than a decade by a grassroots coalition of impacted landowners, anglers, small business owners, tribal members, health professionals, and many more Oregonians and Northern Californians.

Wolves Under Assault on Multiple Fronts, Your Help Needed!

July 31, 2025May 1, 2019 by nsc425

Both Washington and Oregon have released their 2018 wolf numbers and the Pacific Northwest has demonstrated minor gains in the face of continued poaching and state-funded wolf killing (Oregon’s wolf population increased from 124 wolves to 137 wolves statewide and Washington’s wolf population increased from 122 to 126). California’s wolves continue to live on the … Read more

Oregon Board of Forestry Petitioned to Develop Coho Salmon Protections

July 31, 2025April 24, 2019 by nsc425

April 24, 2019 — Today, twenty conservation and fishing organizations delivered a rulemaking petition to the Oregon Board of Forestry requesting new rules to prevent logging-related harm to “resource sites” for coho salmon listed under the state and federal Endangered Species Act. Coho salmon, which are split into three evolutionarily significant units in Oregon, were first listed in Southern Oregon in 1997, and soon thereafter along the rest of the Oregon Coast in 1998. The Lower Columbia coho population was listed almost over a decade ago, in 2005.

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Rare Siskiyou Mountains Salamander

April 22, 2019 by nsc425

April 22, 2019 — Conservation groups today filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to respond to a 2018 petition for Endangered Species Act protection for the Siskiyou Mountains salamander.

Press Release: Community Members Mobilize for Public Lands Town Hall!

April 15, 2019 by sam

April 15, 2019 — On Thursday, April 18thfrom 6-8pm, bikers, conservation groups, students, and Springfield area locals will join in a discussion at Springfield City Hall about timber sales and local forest management.The Town Hall will feature panelistsfrom Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wildand Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology(FUSEE) discussing recreation, conservation and fire safety in Bureau of Land Management forests. The panel discussion will be followed by a moderated public forum in which community members will share and discuss concerns around local land management. The biker’s organization Climate Revolutions by Bikeis organizing a mass bike ride departing from the University of Oregon EMU at 5pm to participate in the Town Hall event.

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