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Umpqua Watersheds and Earth Day Oregon 2024 are partnering with local businesses to promote and celebrate the Earth while supporting local businesses that recognize the vital importance of our natural world. During April or on Earth Day, April 22, 2024, these businesses will have promotional events to benefit Umpqua Watersheds, support their business, and appreciate [...]

Four Ladies in Tennis Shoes Display at Roseburg Library

Published January 30th, 2024

Press Release from Umpqua Watersheds

Four Ladies in Tennis Shoes

A Display at the Roseburg Public Library

1409 N.E. Diamond Lake Blvd., Roseburg

Feb. 1-Feb. 28

Visit the “Four Ladies in Tennis Shoes’ exhibit to discover the astonishing accomplishment of four local women during the 1970’s. These four women established protections for an area rich [...]

PUBLIC FORESTS ARE NOT THE PROBLEM

Published December 22nd, 2023

By Ken Carloni, PhD. Forest Ecology

Ken Carloni has studied wildfire for over 30 years and earned his doctorate researching historic fire patterns in SW Oregon. He currently consults on ecosystem management and biochar production. A fully referenced version of this article can be found at https://umpquawatersheds.org/public-forests-are-not-the-problem/. He will soon be offering columns with solutions [...]

Oregon Department of Forestry helping prepare landowners for Forest Practices Act rule changes

Published November 17th, 2023

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORFORESTRY/bulletins/37b706e

SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) is helping to prepare forest landowners for big changes to the Forest Practices Act (FPA) that go into effect Jan. 1, 2024. The changes were brought about by the landmark Private Forest Accord that brought together conservation groups and forest landowners that agreed to [...]

OSU backs out of proposal to Manage Elliott State Forest

Published November 17th, 2023

https://mycof.forestry.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/President%20Murthy%20Letter%20to%20State%20Land%20Board%2011-13-2023.pdf

President Murthy Letter to State Land Board 11-13-2023

Message from Department of State lands regarding the Elliott Forest

Published November 17th, 2023

https://mailchi.mp/news.dsl.oregon.gov/elliottupdate111423?e=c4889c9476

View this email in your browser A Message from DSL Director Vicki Walker November 14, 2023

Dear Elliott State Research Forest Community,

Yesterday, Oregon State University President Jayathi Y. Murthy informed the State Land Board and the Department of State Lands that OSU is no [...]

A WIN FOR EASTSIDE OLD GROWTH! Fall 2023

Published September 10th, 2023

by Ken Carloni

“A federal judge has found that a Trump-era rule change that allowed for the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest violates several laws.” NPR Aug. 31, 2023

In an important ruling, a federal court has just declared that a rule change implemented during the Trump administration, which allowed for the logging [...]

Outreach Update: Fall 2023

Published September 10th, 2023

We are making progress on the Umpqua Outback Community Space! As expected, it is a slow process and will involve 4 stages with the goal of having the whole project complete by May 2024. At the end of last month, our team of volunteers (Ken Carloni, Mark [...]

THE WINCHESTER DAM A Slow-Motion Ecological Disaster

Published September 10th, 2023

by Ken Carloni

The Winchester Dam has degraded the fish runs and aquatic habitats of the North Umpqua River for over a century. It is currently undergoing repairs that will not improve access to the upper North Umpqua River by salmon and steelhead. The state and federal agencies that regulate dams, fisheries, water rights, and [...]

Winchester Dam Repairs Begin Despite Permitting Irregularities, Collapsing Summer Steelhead Run, and Fears of Another Fish Kill

Published August 3rd, 2023

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FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:

Jim McCarthy, WaterWatch of Oregon, 541-941-9450, jim@waterwatch.org

Kirk Blaine, Native Fish Society, 307-299-7834, kirk@nativefishsociety.org

Winchester Dam Repairs Begin Despite Permitting Irregularities, Collapsing Summer Steelhead Run, and Fears of Another Fish Kill

2023 Repair at Dam First Since Botched 2018 Attempt Caused Fish Kill and Polluted Drinking [...]

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Umpqua Outback Covered Stage and Community Space

Published July 1st, 2023

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New Study Shows Hatchery Fish are detrimental to the Native Fish Populations

Published April 11th, 2023

https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/more-evidence-releasing-hatchery-reared-native-fish-harmful/7715689

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We are a part of Earth Day Oregon-Partner with Us!

Published February 17th, 2023
Earth Day Oregon 2023 Umpqua Watersheds is excited to announce that we are a part of Earth Day Oregon 2023. A statewide effort to draw attention to the challenges facing our precious earth. Find out how you can partner with us. email janice at umpquawatersheds.org
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Opinion: Follow Biden’s lead and protect Oregon’s old-growth on national public lands

Published February 2nd, 2023

This article was published in the Oregonian Jan 15, 2023

https://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2023/01/opinion-follow-bidens-lead-and-protect-oregons-old-growth-on-national-public-lands.html

Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 6:15 a.m.

Old and mature forests clean our water and our air and nurture our spirits and health, the author writes. The U.S. Forest Service’s decision to halt the planned Flat Country timber sale is [...]

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