UW joins with other Conservation Groups to question Danger Tree removal on the Umpqua National Forest
Last month Umpqua Watersheds filed a complaint against the US Forest Service challenging their decision to indiscriminately remove trees along 65 miles of public roads comprising nearly 2600 acres of [...]
Restoration Update Fall 2021
PROTECTING HOMES AND NATIVE FORESTS FROM WILDFIRE:
Challenges and Opportunities
Since the early 2000s, wildfires have been getting larger, faster moving, and more destructive to homes, infrastructure, and [...]
Conservation Committee Update Fall 2021
Public Trust and Oregon’s Private Forests, Part 1… Angela Jensen
Environmental groups, like-minded individuals, and families in rural Oregon have long been concerned about industrial logging practices on private [...]
National Geographic highlights latest Spotted Owl Research
A threatened owl could disappear from much of its range unless old-growth [...]
From the Conservation/ Legal Director Summer 2021
Angela Jensen
Conservation is a broad topic. Yet I often find that I center my newsletter articles on topics related to forestry and climate change. So, for this newsletter I [...]
Action item for native fish preservation
Right now, Oregon’s state legislature is considering a bill, HB 3150, that will require ODFW to utilize hatch boxes in southern Oregon, a strategy that is ineffective at bolstering commercial and [...] It can be hard to keep track [...] Native Fish Society, along with our co-petitioners at the Center for Biological Diversity and Umpqua Watersheds, have [...] The Siuslaw National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Coos Bay District invite you to provide input as we begin the planning process for the Wasson and Franklin [...]
Umpqua Watersheds joins lawsuit to Protect Salmon
From the Statesman Journal, Salem, Oregon
Protecting Oregon Coast Spring Chinook
Wasson and Franklin Creeks Comprehensive River Management Plan
