Press Releases

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Huge Legal Victory for Washington’s Wolves

December 21, 2015 — In response to a challenge brought by a coalition of conservation organizations, a federal court rejected...

Cascadia Wildlands Joins Lawsuit to Protect Wild Salmon and Clean Water from Gold Mining

November 20, 2015 — To defend an Oregon law designed to protect wildlife from damaging gold mining along waterways, a...

Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission Removes Protections for Imperiled Gray Wolf

November 10, 2015 — In the face of overwhelming opposition from the public, political leaders, and the scientific community, the...

Oregon Slammed for “Flawed” Scientific Basis for Wolf Delisting

October 29, 2015 — A group of leading independent scientists this week voiced their opposition to a plan to remove...

Win on the Tongass: Forest Service Withdraws Mitkof Island Old-Growth Timber Sale

October 12, 2015 — In a federal court filing last Friday the U.S. Forest Service announced it will withdraw its...

Press Release: Josh Laughlin Hired as Executive Director of Cascadia Wildlands

September 10, 2015 — The Cascadia Wildlands Board of Directors is excited to announce that Josh Laughlin has been hired...

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Northwest Prairie Bird Species

August 5, 2015 — Four conservation groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

Legal Battle Results in Protections for Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

August 29, 2015 — In a major victory for America’s last great rainforest, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

Press Release: Cascadia Petitions for Emergency Action to Save Alaska Wolves

July 23, 2015 — Environmental groups today asked three state and federal agencies to take decisive action to save the...

Press Release: Logging Industry Lawsuit Thrown out by Federal Appeals Court

June 12, 2015 — A logging industry lawsuit that sought to force the Bureau of Land Management to increase logging...

Lawsuit Challenges Plan to Log Old-growth Trees on Alaska’s Mitkof Island

May 4, 2015 — Five environmental organizations today challenged a plan to log the old-growth forests of Mitkof Island, near...

Cascadia Halts Huge Public Lands Clearcutting Outside Eugene

March 23, 2015 — Public opposition and a legal challenge from Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild has prompted the Eugene Bureau...

Cascadia Wildlands Defeats White Castle Clearcutting in Court

March 17, 2015 — A US District Court judge has ruled in favor of conservation groups Oregon Wild and Cascadia...

Cascadia Challenges Wildlife Services in Washington

March 3, 2015 — Today, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) on behalf of five conservation groups, filed a lawsuit...

Exciting Leadership Transition at Cascadia Wildlands

Dear Cascadia Wildlands Supporters, Bushwacking through head-high ferns to find the elusive Devil’s Staircase waterfall. Watching salmon thrash upstream to...