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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
