Conservation Update Winter 2025
The Endangered Species Act- Under threat
by Janice Reid
In 1970, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released The Right to Exist—A Report on Our Endangered Wildlife (Resource [...]
Conservation Update Fall 2025
Protecting Roadless Areas
The federal government has announced its intention to rescind the National Roadless Rule, a longstanding policy that protects millions of acres of backcountry forests from road building [...]
Conservation Update Summer 2025
What We Stand to Lose
On Memorial Day, we drove into the Coast Range to see firsthand an active timber sale from the Blue and Gold project on [...]
NEPA Under Threat — Act Now to Protect Your Voice in Environmental Decisions
80+ Federal Agencies Are Gutting Public Participation — We Need Your Help
Over 80 federal agencies have just released sweeping changes to how they implement the National Environmental [...]
Proposed ESA Change Threatens Wildlife Protection
**The federal government is proposing to narrow the definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),** removing habitat degradation from consideration. This means only direct injury or death of [...]
Conservation Update Spring 2025
The Urgent Need to Act: Protecting the Spotted Owl
The Umpqua Watersheds Conservation Committee continues to work diligently to protect our environment, especially here in the Umpqua. Conservation is rarely [...]
NEPA is under attack!
Please comment by March 27, 2025
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations
Unfortunately, the CEQ itself cannot rescind an executive order issued by the President. Since Executive Order 14154 directs the removal of NEPA’s implementing [...]
Complex Tradeoffs
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/news/complex-tradeoffs-31988826
January 30, 2025
‘Complex Tradeoffs’
EPIC among conservation groups defending barred owl removal in court
By Kimberly Wear kim@northcoastjournal.com @kimberly_wear
Five [...]
Conservation Groups support US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Efforts to reduce barred owl impacts on spotted owls
Conservation groups, including Umpqua Watersheds, issue press release.
Press Release January 21, 2025
How a Fight Led to a Festival
Umpqua Watersheds member Bob Allen has an article in the Oregon Humanities Magazine Winter 2025 edition.
https://www.oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/currents-winter-2025/posts-currents/
In the mid-1980s, my family lived outside Roseburg, not far from River Forks [...]
Hoopa Valley Tribe receives major grant to remove barred owls
The success of the program to curtail the invasion of the barred owl on the Hoopa Valley Tribal Land gets a big boost from the federal government.
“The USFW’s controversial [...]
Preserving Oregon’s Public Lands
by Rob Taylor….
As a lifelong Oregonian, taking our public lands for granted can sometimes be easy. Oregon’s public beaches, Crater Lake National Park, the Pacific Crest Trail- all these [...]
Conservation Update Winter 2024
by Janice Reid…
The Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP), completed in 1994 and implemented during the Clinton Administration, was the result of extensive scientific collaboration. Its goal was to create a [...]
Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-logging-blm-oregon-climate
Crater Lake National Park
I had the joy of my annual visit to Crater Lake. The lake was in spectacular colorful array. The park is the crown jewel of the Crater Lake [...]
Conservation Update
By Janice Reid….
bg-harvest-plan-vicinity-map Monitoring the conservation of our wildlife and wild areas is a full-time job. Most of us probably think that once a species is [...]
Cow Creek National Scenic Trail #1424
Cow Creek is a major tributary of the South Umpqua River. The 6 mile trail follows the creek through a lush old growth forest, with trees 500+ years old. The [...]
Emile Old Growth Trees Grove
I highly recommend a visit to Emile old growth trees grove. It is easy to get to for an inspiring outing a few miles up Little River. Complete directions are [...]
Conservation Update
…by Janice Reid
Recently, we heard of a decision in a five-year-long legal challenge by Crag Law Center on behalf of our sister organizations KS Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, [...]
Conservation Update
Lethal Barred Owl Removal…by Janice Reid
There are several opinions on the proposal by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to lethally remove barred owls within the range of [...]
