Wilderness Update Winter 2025
The 90-Mile Wilderness Corridor Along the High Cascades
by Diana Pace
The proposed 90-mile High Cascades Wilderness Corridor represents one of the most ambitious and ecologically meaningful conservation visions [...]
Wilderness Update Fall 2025
Last Creek Roadless Area – Protecting the Upper South Umpqua
The Roadless Rule, a cornerstone of national forest protection, is currently in danger of being rescinded. This rule [...]
Wilderness Update Summer 2025
Calf-Copeland Creek Roadless Area: A Wild Gem in the Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal
by Rick Kreofsky and Connie Page
Included in the Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal (18,000 acres) is [...]
Trump admin plans sprint on lifting logging bans The Forest Service laid out a draft timeline to rescind roadless-area protections and ease timber harvesting on nearly 59 million acres.
GREENWIRE |
By: Marc Heller | 07/21/2025 01:52 PM EDT
The Trump administration aims to end the prohibition on logging on tens of millions of acres of roadless areas in [...]
Protecting Our Last Wild Places: Why the Roadless Rule Matters
As the federal government considers rescinding the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, it’s important that the public understand what’s at stake. Roadless areas on our national forests are not just [...]
NEPA Under Threat — Act Now to Protect Your Voice in Environmental Decisions
80+ Federal Agencies Are Gutting Public Participation — We Need Your Help
Over 80 federal agencies have just released sweeping changes to how they implement the National Environmental [...]
Wilderness Update Spring 2025
Highlighting a special area in the Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal.
Bulldog Rock Roadless Area Compiled Robin and Gerald Wisdom, 2/19/25
Physical Characteristics: 5,500 acres – roadless area identified by the [...]
NEPA is under attack!
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 [...]
Wilderness Update Winter 2024
by Diana Pace…
The Crater Lake Wilderness Proposal aims to preserve the backcountry of Crater Lake National Park from future development while not impacting existing roads or infrastructure. This designation [...]
Crater Lake National Park
I had the joy of my annual visit to Crater Lake. The lake was in spectacular colorful array. The park is the crown jewel of the Crater Lake [...]
Seeking expert bill writer, preparing wilderness characteristics booklet
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. [...]
History of Wilderness Campaigns of the Umpqua
…by Diana Pace
I would like to provide some background into the history of the Wilderness campaigns in the Umpqua Valley. The Umpqua Wilderness Defenders Coalition was active in 1974. [...]
Boulder Creek Wilderness-Pine Bench Hike 5-1-24
BOULDER CREEK WILDERNESS-PINE BENCH 5-1-24
Six of us brave souls hiked three+ miles uphill into the Pine Bench area of the Boulder Creek Wilderness. Great weather! The big challenge [...]
Wilderness Update Spring 2024
by Diana Pace
Greetings as we prepare for the long-awaited spring. Bob Hoehne prepared the Four Ladies in Tennis Shoes history display and Rick Kreofsky got it beautifully framed. The [...]
Four Ladies in Tennis Shoes Display at Roseburg Library
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 [...]
Wilderness Update – Winter 2023
By Diana Pace
Wilderness Committee by Diana Pace
On the Umpqua Watersheds website Wilderness Committee link, there is now an interactive Crater Lake Wilderness Map that allows you to [...]
Tipsoo Peak Mt Thielsen Wilderness Hike 10-23
My friend Deb, her dog and myself made the 3+ horizontal mile hike to Tipsoo Peak with an elevation of over 8000 feet in the Mt. Thielsen Wilderness. The [...]
Wilderness Committee Update: Fall 2023
Hello everyone hope you had a fun summer. The Wilderness Committee has been chugging along, moving our efforts towards making the Crater Lake Wilderness a reality rather than [...]
Wilderness Committee Update
by Robbin Schindele
Members of Umpqua Watersheds and the Wilderness Committee went on a fine hike this month on the Jesse Wright section of the North Umpqua Trail. It [...]
WILDERNESS UPDATE
By Robbin Schindele.
I sit writing this amid the worst weather of the Winter of 2022-23 (so far.) It is cold, windy, and snowy, so let’s all move on and [...]
