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

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 21, 2026  Contacts: Peter Jensen, Staff Attorney, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Brenna Bell, Senior Staff Attorney,...

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

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

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 14, 2026  Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Matthew Bishop, Western Environmental Law CenterLizzy Pennock, WildEarth...

Lawsuit Aims to Protect Oregon Coast Red Tree Voles

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 17, 2025  Contacts: Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Ryan Shannon, Center for Biological Diversity Joe...

Public Shut Out as Trump Administration Guts Bedrock Environmental Protections  

Public Shut Out as Trump Administration Guts Bedrock Environmental Protections  

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 8, 2025  Contact:  Grace Brahler, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Jade Hagan, PhD,  Bark  Eugene, Ore. — The Trump...

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

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

Conservationists Applaud Approval, Which Safeguards Imperiled Species and Old-growth Forests  For immediate release: May 28, 2025  Contact: Josh Laughlin, Executive...

Legal Intervention Defends Northern Spotted Owl Habitat 

Legal Intervention Defends Northern Spotted Owl Habitat 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    May 21, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Chelsea Stewart-Fusek, Center for Biological DiversitySusan Jane Brown,...

Court Rejects Coast Range Clearcutting Project

Court Rejects Coast Range Clearcutting Project

Feds failed to consider harm to ecosystems and failed to follow required environmental review processes. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25,...

Federal Land Agency Auctions Old-Growth Forest on Earth Day, Protesters Rally in Roseburg to Oppose the Project

Federal Land Agency Auctions Old-Growth Forest on Earth Day, Protesters Rally in Roseburg to Oppose the Project

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2025 Contact:  Madeline Cowen, Grassroots Organizer, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 Roseburg, OR — Today, Earth Day...

After Years of Stagnation, Oregon’s Wolf Population Grows

After Years of Stagnation, Oregon’s Wolf Population Grows

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 11, 2025 Contact(s):  Bethany Cotton, Conservation Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463  Eugene, OR — Today, the Oregon...

Court: N126, One of the Largest Oregon Logging Projects in Decades, Needs More Detailed Study to Safeguard Environment, Imperiled Species

Court: N126, One of the Largest Oregon Logging Projects in Decades, Needs More Detailed Study to Safeguard Environment, Imperiled Species

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEApril 3, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463Sangye Ince-Johannsen, Attorney, Western Environmental Law Center...

Illegal IVM Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme Struck Down

Illegal IVM Late Successional Reserve Logging Scheme Struck Down

For Immediate Release April 1, 2025 Contact: Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (541) 434-1463 George Sexton, Conservation Director, KS...

Eugene Water and Electric Board Violating Endangered Species Act  

Eugene Water and Electric Board Violating Endangered Species Act  

Today, conservation organizations filed suit against the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB) alleging ongoing violations of the Endangered Species...

Cascadia Wildlands Responds to Trump’s Big Timber Executive Order

Cascadia Wildlands Responds to Trump’s Big Timber Executive Order

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2025  On March 1, Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber...

Conservation Groups Challenge Bureau of Land Management SW Oregon Old-Growth Timber Sale

Conservation Groups Challenge Bureau of Land Management SW Oregon Old-Growth Timber Sale

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 19, 2024 Contact:Nick Cady, Legal Director, Cascadia Wildlands, (314) 482-3746George Sexton, Conservation Director, KS Wild John...

Cascadia Wildlands Statement on the Election Results

Cascadia Wildlands Statement on the Election Results

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   November 7, 2024 As we process the results of the election and the disastrous consequences it will...