Wildlife

The Cascadia bioregion is home to a rich biodiversity of wildlife and fish.

Cascadia Wildlands works to ensure the region’s ecosystems support critters on the forest floor, like the slow-moving banana slug, salamanders and newts, and creatures high in the treetops, like the threatened spotted owl and marbled murrelet.

We focus our advocacy efforts on imperiled species, helping first to prevent their extinction and then to aid them on the road to recovery and resilience.

These animals include gray wolves, wolverine, Canada lynx, Coho salmon, bull trout and red tree vole, among others. Many of these species are indicators of ecosystem health, whether because they require old-growth trees for nesting and rearing young like marbled murrelet or cold, fast flowing streams, like salmon and bull trout.

We are a founding member of both the Pacific Wolf Coalition and Oregon Wildlife Coalition through which we advocate for science-based wildlife management policies at the state and federal levels. We also endeavor to ensure ecosystem engineer species like beavers are able to provide ecosystem services through their natural behaviors, and promote non-lethal wildlife-human coexistence efforts and funding.

We envision a Cascadia where both human and non-human life thrives, and use landmark laws including the Endangered Species Act in our work to achieve that vision.