Protect Public Forests - cascadiawildlands

Press Release: Federal Agencies Release Joint Report on Mature and Old-Growth Forests

August 1, 2025April 20, 2023 by kaley

April 20, 2023 — On April 20, 2023, the two federal agencies charged with overseeing federally-managed public forests in the US released a much-anticipated report defining, identifying, and producing an initial inventory of mature and old-growth forests. The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) inventory, which will continue to expand, identified more than 32 million acres of old-growth and around 80 million acres of mature forest across 200 types of forests.

Join Us for an Earth Day rally in Eugene — April 22, 2023

August 4, 2025April 3, 2023 by kaley

Join Cascadia Wildlands and our partners for an Earth Day rally in Eugene to call for lasting protections for federal mature and old-growth forests from logging. Date: Saturday, April 22nd Time: 1pmWhere: The Old Federal Building (211 E 7th Ave, Eugene, OR 97401) Get ready for rousing speeches, a short march alongside a bicycle brigade and … Read more

Press Release: Protestors Call Out Biden’s Mature and Old-Growth Logging Sales at Portland Forest Service Office

July 22, 2025November 21, 2022 by Sydney Hearst

November 17, 2022 — Today, forest and climate activists gathered at Terry Schrunk Plaza across from the Forest Service Region 6 offices in support of stronger protections for mature and old-growth forests.

BLOG: Environmental Rollbacks Gut Core Conservation Laws

August 4, 2025August 6, 2020 by kaley

Trump Administration Pushing Through Environmental Rollbacks During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Gene McCarthy Cascadia Wildlands Legal Intern, Summer 2020 It can be exhausting keeping up with the constant barrage of unfortunate news covering the current administration’s breakneck efforts to remove environmental safeguards. Unfortunately, the past six months during the COVID-19 pandemic have been no exception. … Read more

Umpqua Sweets Chronicles Vol 4 – Community

July 31, 2025November 6, 2019 by Gabe

by Gabe Scott, In-house Counsel November 5, 2019 It is a lot of fun to be part of a movement. A phenomenal community of people have been coming together in the forests of the BLM’s Umpqua Sweets timber project. This past weekend I joined a group of Roseburg locals for a hike organized by Instagram artist … Read more

Press Release: Quartz Timber Sale Challenged Over Impacts to Red Tree Voles

July 31, 2025May 16, 2018 by nsc425

May 16, 2018 — Today, three conservation groups challenged the 847-acre Quartz timber sale on the Cottage Grove Ranger District of the Umpqua National Forest that targets mature forests. The contested area is home to a thriving population of red tree voles, a small tree-dwelling mammal that is a prey source for the imperiled northern spotted owl and is critical to forest ecosystems in western Oregon.

“Let the Big Trees Alone. Let Them Grow”

May 4, 2018 by sam

A Report on the Board of Forestry Meeting, 25 April 2018 By Will Watson, WildCAT Volunteer. Last month, Cascadia Wildland’s staff attorney, Gabe Scott, and volunteers John Selove and I travelled up to Salem to a meeting of the Oregon State Board of Forestry. The BOF is the executive board of the Oregon Department of … Read more

Blog: Old Growth Timber Grab on the North Umpqua

July 31, 2025April 30, 2018 by Gabe

by Gabe Scott, In-house Counsel Lone Rock Timber and BLM, shame on you. In what looks like a classic timber grab, Lone Rock Timber has demanded rights to log a swath of huge old-growth trees on public, BLM land. Claiming they need a road to access a part of one of their active clearcuts, Lone … Read more

Press Release: Endangered Species Protection Sought for California, Oregon Salamander Threatened by Logging

March 12, 2018 by Josh

March 12, 2018 — Conservation groups filed a federal petition for Endangered Species Act protection today for the Siskiyou Mountains salamander, a rare terrestrial salamander that lives in old-growth forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southern Oregon and Northern California.

Press Release: Marbled Murrelet Listed as Endangered in Oregon

February 14, 2018 by nsc425

February 9, 2018 — Responding to a petition from conservation groups, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted today to change the status of marbled murrelets from threatened to endangered under the Oregon Endangered Species Act.

Press Release: House of Representatives Passes Horrific “Logging without Laws” Bill

July 31, 2025November 1, 2017 by Josh

November 1, 2017 — The House of Representatives passed legislation today that will suspend environmental laws to open up previously protected old-growth and recreation areas to clearcut logging. The Orwellian-named “Resilient Federal Forests Act” (HR 2936) is an overwhelming assault on the nation’s public lands, waters, species and environmental laws.

Marbled Murrelet Review Suggests Increased Protections!

October 25, 2017 by nsc425

October 25, 2017 — In response to a petition from multiple conservation organizations, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has released a status review that demonstrates that the Marbled Murrelet warrants uplisting from threatened to endangered under the Oregon Endangered Species Act and is seeking public comment.