News Updates from Greenwire regarding forest carbon storage
In the latest update to proposed regulations, the Forest Service said it’s weighing a new measure to allow for underground carbon storage on land it manages.
01/05/2023 01:37 PM ESTGREENWIRE | The Forest Service is considering allowing greater use of the lands it oversees [...]
Umpqua Watersheds highlighted in the local paper
The News Review coverage of MLK River cleanup event
Martin Luther King, Jr Day of Service
Press release for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Oregon, Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Move Closer to Endangered Species Protection
For Immediate Release, January 11, 2023
Contact:Meg Townsend, Center for Biological Diversity, (971) 717-6409, mtownsend@biologicaldiversity.org
Stanley Petrowski, Umpqua Watersheds, (541) 825-3070, stanley@surcp.org
Liz Perkin, Native Fish Society, (503) 344-4218, liz@nativefishsociety.org
Oregon, Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Move Closer to Endangered Species Protection
Spring-Runs Suffer Chronically Low [...] Federal employees and retirees can now give through the workplace. Exciting New Radio Show Coming Soon! We will be partnering with Stone Soup Leadership Institute and Green Teacher to produce a podcast featuring the inspiring stories of young change-makers from around the world. Stay tuned for more information! If you would like to offer financial support for this collaboration, please contact our Executive Director [...] Download it now from the Google Play Store Don’t despair iPhone fans…an Apple app is coming soon! LARRY’S STORY Umpqua Watersheds lost a dear friend recently. Larry Flanagan, known and loved by many in the greater Roseburg and environmental community, has died. Larry was a Watersheds board member in 1998 and 1999. Every organization could use a psychologist and peacemaker on their board. For us he was also a sage, councilor and a stand-up [...] Our mature and old-growth are some of our most powerful climate solutions. But these forests are still being logged when they should be set aside for carbon storage, wildlife habitat, and clean water. We need the Biden administration to understand that forest defense is climate defense! When we protect our older forests [...] Scientists_discover_new_way_to_create_clean_hydrogen_-_EENEWS 3_ways_2021_changed_electricity___and_what_s_next_-_EENEWS Wash._buys_more_Steptoe_Butte_land_to_preserve_it_-_EENEWS FERC_cracks_down_on_pipelines_-_EENEWS Lone Rock land management crew member Jose Calvillo plants 2-year-old Douglas fir seedlings in the Callahan Mountains west of Roseburg in 2017. Photo credit by MICHAEL SULLIVAN/The News-Review Robyn Bath [...] 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 the Umpqua National Forest. On Aug 18, 2021, the Forest Service issued a final decision on its proposed Archie Creek Fire Roadside Danger Tree Project [...] 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 forestlands. This is partly due to climate change and partly due to the legacy of the wholesale conversion of native forests to highly flammable tree [...] Joseph “Josef” Donald Gult Jr., 72, a resident of a Forest Grove Memory Community, died Wednesday morning, April 21, 2021, at the Hillsboro Medical Center in Hillsboro from leukemia. Josef and his wife violinist Kim Angeles both love nature and the Natural World. Josef played beautiful guitar and had a wonderful smile to go [...] Mathematician, Philosopher, Professor, and Friend of UW I would like to share a few memories of my friend and fellow Umpqua Community College (UCC) professor, John Stelzer, who died of natural causes several months ago. I would also like to thank his wife, Renie McRae, for a generous donation in his memory to UW’s [...]
Umpqua Watersheds joins the Combined Federal Campaign
Education Update
Umpqua Watersheds Annual Banquet
KQUA has a new Android App!
Remembering Larry Flanagan
Tell President Biden – U.S. Climate Strategy Must Protect Forests
Discovery of process to create clean hydrogen
3 Ways 2021 can be called a win for energy policy
South Eastern Washington Native Palouse Prairie transfers to Public Ownership
FERC Cracks Down on Pipelines
Umpqua Watersheds Executive Director talks about the Forest Accord
UW joins with other Conservation Groups to question Danger Tree removal on the Umpqua National Forest
PROTECTING HOMES AND NATIVE FORESTS FROM WILDFIRE
Remembering Joseph Gult
Remembering John Stelzer
