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2013 Chevy Volt for sale

Published May 22nd, 2025

We’re reaching out to our trusted members first with a special opportunity: Umpqua Watersheds is offering our 2013 Chevy Volt for sale. This well-maintained plug-in hybrid has only 68,000 miles on it and is in excellent [...]

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Federal Cuts Devastate Umpqua Watersheds AmeriCorps Environmental Education Program

Published May 2nd, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Federal Cuts Devastate AmeriCorps Environmental Education in Douglas County

Umpqua Watersheds Calls on Community to Stand with Umpqua Community Action Network, (UCAN), Students, Service Members, [...]

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Proposed ESA Change Threatens Wildlife Protection

Published April 24th, 2025

**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 [...]

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In Memory of Lenore Paulsen

Published March 7th, 2025

After a long career in government employment, public life, and Democratic Party activism, Roseburg’s Lenore Paulsen has died at the age of 90 in the home she lived in for [...]

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NEPA is under attack!

Published February 27th, 2025

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 [...]

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Lawsuit Aims to Protect Spring-Run Chinook Salmon in Pacific Northwest

Published February 23rd, 2025

News release:
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/lawsuit-aims-to-protect-spring-run-chinook-salmon-in-pacific-northwest-2025-02-18/

For Immediate Release, February 18, 2025

Contact:

Jeremiah Scanlan, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6400, jscanlan@biologicaldiversity.org
Mark Sherwood, Native Fish Society, (503) 344-4218, mark@nativefishsociety.org
[...]

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Complex Tradeoffs

Published February 3rd, 2025

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 [...]

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Conservation Groups support US Fish and Wildlife Service’s Efforts to reduce barred owl impacts on spotted owls

Published January 21st, 2025

Conservation groups, including Umpqua Watersheds, issue press release.

Press Release January 21, 2025

The Trouble with Barred Owls

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How a Fight Led to a Festival

Published January 4th, 2025

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 [...]

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Hoopa Valley Tribe receives major grant to remove barred owls

Published December 17th, 2024

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 [...]

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Honoring the Life of Emily Hopfer

Published December 15th, 2024

Pictures of nature’s beauty are awe-inspiring—a wonder to behold. But for many of us, simply admiring them is not enough. We feel called to venture out, to experience the [...]

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ODFW issues letter of Non-compliance to Winchester Water Control District

Published November 16th, 2024

Notice of Non-compliance gives the owners of Winchester Dam until Nov 17 to request a hearing.

 

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Despite Biden’s Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down

Published November 14th, 2024

https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-logging-blm-oregon-climate

 

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Umpqua Watersheds hosts the 40th Annual River Cleanup

Published October 16th, 2024

KEZI reports on River Cleanup in the Umpqua

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Seeking expert bill writer, preparing wilderness characteristics booklet

Published September 16th, 2024

By Diana Pace

The Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal team has been implementing guidance from experts such as Dave Stone, Andy Kerr, the Umpqua National Forest supervisor and the Wilderness Society. [...]

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Restoration Chair and Vice President of UW interview

Published July 5th, 2024

https://kqennewsradio.com/2024/07/05/morning-conversation-7-5-24-2/

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Marbled Murrelet nest site protected on the Elliott

Published June 29th, 2024

A recent victory for conservation group, Cascadia Wildlands, gives protection to a Marbled Murrelet nest site.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/oregon-logging-project-would-harm-small-seabird-court-affirms?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0FkNU-LowrtkchwXjywMifaylVaszibpmL5or2VlpU5WyJXhlEpm7UT9U_aem_qcy8nxjWYp_NBEbc4iEA8Q

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Wyden introduces The River Democracy Act

Published June 29th, 2024

https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-urges-support-for-his-bills-to-use-prescribed-burns-and-protect-water-sources#:~:text=My%20other%20bill%2C%20the%20River,and%20the%20River%20Democracy%20Act.

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Conservation groups win lawsuit

Published June 29th, 2024

https://www.rv-times.com/outdoors/judges-nixes-blm-effort-to-reduce-fire-risk-by-logging-protected-reserves/article_c88021e6-1ed6-11ef-a7ad-f382eb8b1a02.html

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Coastal Marten Critical Habitat Designation

Published May 29th, 2024

https://www.newsbreak.com/news/3469324102558-more-than-a-million-acres-of-north-coast-southern-oregon-land-designated-as-critical-habitat-for-the-pacific-marten?_f=app_share&s=i1&pd=0HsoZb1k&lang=en_US&send_time=1716993928&trans_data=%7B%22platform%22%3A0%2C%22cv%22%3A%2224.21.0.30%22%2C%22languages%22%3A%22en%22%7D&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3WNbpLmypWJI8EcExp2BHBQbAZmGM_q-cUFWw5DZPI9O9QCQvR2vo3Ds8_aem_JRVlF2FAAB8lyh34VbB70w

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