What is NEPA and what does it mean for conservation?
By Diana Pace
The National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to consider all of the environmental and social impacts of proposals before taking action (e.g. permitting a road or [...]
Comments Due Dec 17, 2019
Crater Lake Wilderness aims to keep 500,000 acres wild
Crater Lake Wilderness article in the news!
Conservation
The Conservation Column in the June, 2018 edition of this newsletter, contained the following: “Thus, when we became aware of what seemed to us to be [...]
DCPARC September 2019
DCPARC recently met with fellow activists in Columbia County, Oregon concerning logging at Camp Wilkerson County Park and purposed “Hazard” tree logging at Ora Bolmeier City Park in Vernona. We [...]
Conservation Update
Conservation Committee…Patrick Quinn
Recently, the well-known non-profit journal, The Guardian, gave its staff revised instructions concerning how they should report about climate and how it is changing and impacting our [...]
Monitoring the county park activities
DCPARC Update….John Hunter
We continue to monitor the situation at Whistlers Bend Park where more than 100 trees in the campground were cut. Far more than 11 reported by the [...]
Winter 2018
J. Patrick Quinn
“The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As [...] John Hunter The last quarter of 2018 has been a very busy one for Douglas County Parks Advisory Resource Committee (DCPARC). It was a combination of park related activities and [...] by J. Patrick Quinn “Environmental Terrorists,” is what some clear cutters and their advocates in local, state and national government label citizens who speak up in defense of steadily deteriorating [...]
DCPARC
Fall 2017
