How a Fight Led to a Festival
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 Park, a beautiful spot at the confluence of the North and South Umpqua Rivers. We had a small group of friends who would gather at [...]
Preserving Oregon’s Public Lands
by Rob Taylor….
As a lifelong Oregonian, taking our public lands for granted can sometimes be easy. Oregon’s public beaches, Crater Lake National Park, the Pacific Crest Trail- all these wonders were established long before my birth- but they didn’t appear out of thin air. Our lands are constantly being fought over by various private [...]
Umpqua Valley Audubon Society AmeriCorps Update
……by Tracy Maxwell:
The new year is rolling along. I am about halfway through this 11-month service year. We have made a lot of progress in these 6 months. A lot of the work has been foundational to the goals I developed with Audubon at the start.
Currently, I am in contact with four local [...]
Opinion: Follow Biden’s lead and protect Oregon’s old-growth on national public lands
This article was published in the Oregonian Jan 15, 2023
- 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 [...]
UMPQUA WATERSHEDS PETITION FOR THE LISTING OF SPRING CHINOOK SALMON
Well, here we go again! As most of our faithful members know, Umpqua Watersheds – and a handful of sincerely committed members in particular – has been working for years to preserve the Spring Chinook population of the Pacific Northwest. Because we are passionate about this keystone species, especially the [...]
Guest Article: ANNUAL MOONLIGHT TREK AROUND MT. THIELSEN
Over thirty years ago I began an annual trek encircling Mt. Thielsen in the Winema and Umpqua National Forests. The inspiration was Holly Jones, who was the head social science librarian at the University of Oregon. He served on the Sierra Club’s Board of Directors in the 70s and was [...]
Guest Column
MY UKRAINIAN FAMILY
By Stuart Liebowitz, Douglas County Global Warming Coalition
“Do not neglect or kneecap policies to cut fossil fuels. Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness.” – UN Secretary-General Guterres warning about the western response to the 2022 Ukraine war.
Around the time of the Russian Revolution, my Ukrainian [...]