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Advocates Ask Feds to Make EWEB Consider Volitional Fish Passage at Trail Bridge Dam

April 22, 2026 by Noah Angell

The Trail Bridge dam sits at the end of the frame. The dark blue water of the Mckenzie runs with green trees on the shore.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 22, 2026 Bethany Cotton, Cascadia Wildlands, (541)-534-1463 Jennifer Fairbrother, Native Fish Society Lindsey Hutchison, Willamette Riverkeeper Eugene, OR — Today, on Earth Day, Advocates submitted a petition to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting a cost and viability comparison of volitional passage at the Trail Bridge Dam on the McKenzie River, and interim improvements … Read more

Press Release: Conservation Groups Challenge BLM’s “Big League” Logging Project Due to Impacts on Imperiled Spring Chinook Salmon Habitat and Other Values

February 18, 2026November 7, 2023 by kaley

November 7, 2023 — Today, conservation organizations Willamette Riverkeeper, Cascadia Wildlands, and Oregon Wild filed suit against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), challenging the agency’s authorization of the approximately 4,600-acre Big League Project in the Calapooia and Mohawk River Watersheds northeast of Eugene. According to the groups’ complaint, the BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to take the required “hard look” at the impacts that the Big League Project would have on a host of environmental values, including spotted owl habitat, carbon storage, stream flows, and water quality. Specifically, this project plans to clearcut the last and best older forest stands in the Calapooia and Mohawk River Watersheds.

Comments on Coyote Island Terminal Permit

October 31, 2012 by bob

Cascadia Wildlands submitted the following comments on the Coyote Island Terminal Permit Application (Port of Morrow): Click below to view the PDF file. CascWild – Comment on APP0049123 Coyote Island Terminal Permit Application

Suction Dredging…Sucks

February 5, 2026September 17, 2012 by bob

By Bob Ferris My access point to my career in the conservation field came originally from fish. I caught my first trout on the Eel River in northern California while my family was on their way to visit the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle. As we were on our way north, my mother grudgingly … Read more

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