Today forest conservation organizations filed a legal challenge in Medford federal district court challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) latest old-growth timber sale located in the Cascade foothills east of the community of Sunny Valley, Oregon.
Read MoreKS Wild and partners are litigating against the BLM’s Rogue Gold timber sale behind the community of Gold Hill and Rogue River, OR. The forests being targeted for logging are resilient, healthy, older forests that are designated as reserves for conservation, recreation, and water protection.
Read MoreKS Wild and partners are taking the BLM to court on Tuesday, April 2nd against the BLM’s Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) project.
Read MoreFish and Wildlife Service to list species as threatened following decades of litigation
Read MoreBreaking News! The D.C. Court of Appeals just affirmed the legality of an expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. This is a pivotal decision that means that Western Oregon BLM lands can be managed for social and environmental values, not just timber production.
Read MoreIn a legal victory, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to reconsider whether West Coast fishers in northern California and southern Oregon warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Read the full press release here.
Read MoreMajor victory for the Monument and the spectacular variety of plants, fish, and wildlife that depend on the Monument’s ecological integrity with the Court’s upholding of the Monument’s expansion.
Read MoreA coalition of conservation organizations filed a legal complaint challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Integrated Vegetation Management” (IVM) program that would aggressively log forest stands located within Late Successional Reserves, areas purportedly set aside for forest conservation.
Read MoreA coalition of Oregon environmental organizations have come together to notify Bureau of Land Management it intends to sue the agency to protect marbled murrelets and coastal martens from a plan by the agency to log thousands of acres of old-growth forest in areas designated as late-successional reserves.
Read MorePresident Joe Biden issued an executive order that directs federal agencies to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on America’s federal lands so that policies can be adopted to protect them. The administration framed the move as a key strategy to store carbon and address climate change.
Read MoreThe Medford Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has withdrawn the Lost Antelope old-growth timber sale after a lawsuit was filed by KS Wild, Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, and Crag Law Center.
Read MoreThe Private Forest Accord is through the legislature and on to the Governor's desk! After a year of negotiations between conservation groups and the timber industry, the Private Forest Accord is moving on the become law and enacts the most sweeping upgrades to the OFPA since its enactment in 1971.
Read MoreIn the face of litigation brought by conservation organizations, the Klamath National Forest has withdrawn its approval of a timber sale that threatened old-growth forests in the cold water tributaries of the Klamath River.
Read MoreOn the evening of July 2nd, Oregon Federal District Judge Michael McShane issued a legal order effectively halting the 571-acre “Lower Graves” old-growth timber sale in the Grants Pass Resource Area of the Medford BLM District.
Read MoreASHLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups filed a federal petition for Endangered Species Act protection today for the Siskiyou Mountains salamander, a rare terrestrial salamander that lives in old-growth forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southern Oregon and Northern California. The salamander is threatened by federal land-agency plans to ramp up logging in southern Oregon.
Read MoreGrants Pass, Or—A coalition of residents from the Illinois, Applegate and Rogue Valleys will gather to protest the BLM timber auction for the 287-acre Pickett Hog Timber Sale, above the Wild and Scenic Rogue River. The Pickett Hog Timber Sale is the first to be auctioned from the controversial Pickett West Project. Other timber sales are being developed from the Pickett West Project in the Applegate Valley and in the mountains above Selma, Oregon.
Read MoreJoseph Vaile, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
Read MoreTo force the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to increase its timber harvest in Western Oregon, the timber industry, including Rough and Ready Lumber Co. in the Illinois Valley and the Swanson Group Manufacturing in Glendale, filed a lawsuit in federal court Monday.
By Paul Fattig, Mail Tribune
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