Conservation Groups Serve Timber Firms Notice of Intent to Sue Over Elliott State Forest Privatization
Disposal would sell off marbled murrelet habitat to highest bidder in violation of law
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Environmental coalition seeks injunction to bar Coquille Tribe forest timber sale
The complaint asks the “BIA to withdraw the Kokwel timber sale until such time as the agency demonstrates to this Court that it has adequately complied with the law”
Read MoreSettlement Reached in Wolf Legal Fight
conservationists, Governor John Kitzhaber, the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW), and the livestock industry have reached a compromise settlement agreement that resolves a long-running legal battle over wolf conservation in Oregon.
Read MoreThe Wedge Group Recipe
Take one politically motivated leader—must be trophy hunter—with no grounding in ecological or biological science who will make outrageous statements regardless of validity or accuracy.
Read MoreCourt finds USFS broke the law
Court Requires Assessment of Significant Environmental Harm
Read MoreRep Wayne Krieger tries to criminalize free speech, require mandatory sentencing
A bill introduced by Wayne Krieger to the Oregon legislature recently that would create a felony out of free speech and protest activities.
Read MoreConservation Groups Challenge Crater Lake-Area Logging
Groups cite concern for vulnerable wildlife in opposing auction on controversial project which has generated conflict since 2009 Conservationists today filed a Notice of Intent to challenge an old-growth logging sale on the...
Read MoreCourt halts clearcutting in critical habitat
Murrelet populations are declining steadily, as is their breeding habitat. Oregon has the opportunity to provide for these birds while also ensuring timber jobs through either thinning young plantations or entering into an agreement called a “habitat conservation plan” with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Read MoreMarbled murrelet gains brief reprieve
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found the birds have been declining by about four percent per year and that this decline relates to continued loss of habitat, primarily on state and private lands.
Read MoreWashington State resumes hunt for wolves
Wolves are just beginning to make a comeback in Washington after a government-sponsored program of poisoning, shooting and trapping the animal to extinction in the state. Since the historic return of wolves to Washington in 2008, eight packs have become established in the state.
Read MoreState suspends 10 timber sales in marbled murrelet habitat
State of Oregon Suspends 10 State Forest Timber Sales in Marbled Murrelet Habitat Simultaneously, Conservation Groups File Injunction Request to Safeguard the Threatened Seabird During Lawsuit PORTLAND, Ore.- The State of Oregon...
Read MoreTimber operators manufacture harvest crisis
Since the Northwest Forest Plan was adopted, the BLM and Forest Service have offered 8.7 billion board feet of timber. This is equivalent to 1.74 million log truck loads. Timber targets are set each year by Congress and based on available funding. The data show that since 1995 the agencies have met 82% of the timber targets established by Congress. The small shortfall is the result of two legal blunders where federal agencies broke their own rules and failed to protect streams and wildlife as outlined in the forest plan.
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