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Published on Sunday, January 04, 2015 by Common Dreams by Nadia Prupis, staff writer Tropical...
Read MorePublished on Sunday, January 04, 2015 by Common Dreams by Nadia Prupis, staff writer Tropical...
Read MoreEUGENE, OR—Scores of activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders and Earth First! converged on the Seneca Jones biomass plant at 90201 State Highway 99 N. Eugene, Oregon this morning to protest the company’s privatization of...
Read MoreEast Hakki is a tract of forest recently auctioned by Oregon’s Department of State Lands for privatization.
Read Moretwo members of Cascadia Forest Defenders (CFD) climbed off the side of the “Oregon Pioneer” statue atop the state capitol with a banner proclaiming “KITZHABER’S LEGACY: PRIVATIZING THE ELLIOTT FOREST – CLEARCUTTING FOR PROFIT”.
Read More“Once land is privatized, the public will never again have a say in what happens to it
Read MoreMurrelet 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 MoreState 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 MoreCascadia Forest Defenders want good schools for Oregon’s children and vibrant, intact ecosystems. We believe that education should not be funded by clear-cuts. There are no schools on a dead planet!
Read More“Apparently, the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives believes we can clear-cut our way to prosperity,” observed Steve Pedery, Conservation Director for Oregon Wild. “It is like the DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden clear-cut logging plan on steroids.”
Read MoreIn 1995, Kitzhaber approved a plan for the Elliott State Forest that allowed a 500-acre annual cut for the next 60 years. On Oct. 11, 2011, the governor approved a new plan allowing an annual cut of 850 acres a year, with decreased protection for endangered species and riparian zones. CFD says that the governor broke his own promise and is allowing a bigger cut in an already devastated ecosystem.
Read MoreThe disregard for private property and older public rainforests comes at a time when ODF wants to double the logging on the Elliott as part of its proposed Forest Management Plan, which remains under heavy scrutiny by the public and groups like Cascadia Wildlands. The state is expected to make a final decision on the clearcutting increase by the end of the year.
Read MoreJon Barton, who by the way, was terrible disrespectful to a community volunteer filming the proceedings, made it clear that he viewed the committee’s job as a fact finding and evaluating job which would later be shared with the public in the form of recommendations to the BOC and that they were not empaneled to answer questions from the public.
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