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We found that the BLM skipped environmental review on 75% of its grazing land. Our new @propublica.org story explains the ”loophole” that allows BLM to bypass enviro reviews. www.propublica.org/article/graz...

Wild Ones Training: Active Hope for Wild Ones (Self-Care for Activists) - Oregon Wild Is the news cycle making you want to scream? You're not alone. Join our Wild Ones "Self Care for Activists" workshop to slow down, check in, and build skills to stay grounded and hopeful, no matter wh...

To build a movement that lasts, we must care for the people who make that movement possible: Ourselves and each other!⁠ Join us tonight at 6pm to nurture ourselves as we nurture the planet!
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Need some help dealing with eco-grief and climate anxiety? The work of protecting Oregon’s wild places and wildlife can be joyful, but it can also means very real emotional impacts of witnessing environmental loss.

Conservation Leaders Unite to Oppose Steve Pearce BLM Nomination The Trump pick to lead the land management agency has ties to anti-government extremists

As this anti-public lands administration continues its attack on our public lands, conservation leaders are uniting to stand against this nomination. Read more in this @sierraclub.org article.
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If placed as the Director of the BLM, he would have power over policies around the leasing of land to oil companies. It doesn't take much imagination to picture how that would pan out.

Pearce earned a 4% score from the League of Conservation Voters while serving in the House of Representatives. He also grew up in oil camps, has bought and sold oilfield service companies, and oil companies have been top funders throughout his career. So why does that make him dangerous?

Setting aside the fact he himself has posted videos illegally felling trees as part of a protest, Pearce openly supported Trump around the January 6th insurrection. He also blamed the Bureau of Land Management when anti-government militia members took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in '16

The struggle to fill the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) director role continues, with the latest nominee being, no surprises here, directly tied to not only the oil industry, but anti-government extremists. What are those ties? 🧵

Anti-Public Lands Forest Bill Passes Senate Committee - Oregon Wild The so-called "Fix Our Forests Act" stymies science-based forest management, muzzles community input, and endangers the fish, wildlife, and communities that rely on our forests.

We are not exactly fans of it: oregonwild.org/fix-our-fore...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: RECIPROCITY: Dispatches from the salmon forests. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Washington Wild, Oregon Wild, and Save Our wild Salmon Coalition for an evening with Lynda V. Mapes, author of The Trees are Speaking – Dispatches from the salmon forests. Lynda V. Mapes has c...

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Join us to hear Mapes speak about her book, respecting and caring for salmon and their special relationship to the health of ecosystems, our lands and waters, and other species and people.

With vibrant storytelling supported by science and traditional ecological knowledge, Mapes invites readers to understand the world where trees are kin, not commodities.

In a time of climate catastrophe, old-growth and other natural forests face existential threats caused by humans—and their survival is crucial to ours.

Ancient and carbon-rich, old-growth forests play an irreplaceable role in the environment. Their complex ecosystems clean the air, purify the water, cool the planet, and teem with life.

A call to rethink our relationship with forests:

one way you can make a difference today? Sign on as a citizen co-sponsor of the River Democracy Act oregonwild.org/become-a-cit...

So what’s the solution?

Protecting healthy waterways that still provide cold clean water is a great starting place. For waterways that have been logged or degraded, active and passive restoration efforts will be needed.

New study finds U.S. rivers are warming at alarming rates - Oregon Wild According to a new study, heat waves in river systems throughout the U.S. are increasing at alarming rates, posing serious threats to fish, wildlife, and human communities. The River Democracy Act pro...

New study finds U.S. rivers are warming at alarming rates...
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A summer advocating for Oregon's wildlands - Oregon Wild Kyla Guerrero, an Oregon Wild intern, details the many ways she advocated for Oregon public lands this summer and how others can get involved and take action for Oregon's wildlife, wildlands, and wate...

"I am one teen with one voice, and there are millions of other Oregonians who have the right to speak up. You matter in the fight to protect our wild places for future generations. Take action today."

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BLM timber sales in Oregon and Washington are now closed to the public An environmental advocate in Southern Oregon said a new policy excluding the public from federal timber auctions hurts accountability and transparency.

Many of you may have seen that another conservation group, KS Wild, was stopped from joining a timber sale auction. OPB ran an article highlighting this concerning issue, and we recommend you all take a look...
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Over 99% of Public Comments Oppose Trump Administration’s Attack on Wildlands Protections - Oregon Wild The public nearly unanimously rejects the Trump administration's efforts to open millions of acres of public lands to logging and roadbuilding.

Initial analysis of the Roadless Rule comment period is in, and 99% of comments support keeping Roadless protections in place. Read more about the comment period, and how this is one piece of a coordinated attack on public lands in our latest blog post.

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Happy to be a part of the community that's working so hard to protect our public lands. (and that last slice of Pizza)

5 HOURS LEFT to comment on the Roadless Rule. These are the last undeveloped forests in the US, and they need our protection. Please take 10 minutes today to speak for the trees. oregonwild.org/our-work/pro...

Reminder that we only have until FRIDAY to add our voice in support of the Roadless Rule.

In Eugene, Trump environmental rollbacks already divide people. Roadless forests could be next The Trump administration's proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule has reignited long-running tensions over the best use of old-growth forests near Eugene and Springfield. A public comment period is open...

“Imagine Oregon’s forests as a pizza,” LeGue said. “The logging industry, over the last several decades, got to eat all but one of the slices of pizza. We’re being asked what is a fair way to share the last slice of pizza with them.”

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The Logging Lobby in the Evergreen State How a quasi-academic group convinced Washington State to classify industrial logging as a climate change solution.

When we say forests store carbon, we mean FORESTS. Not just trees. Carbon cycles keep the soil healthy, and leaving old growth trees keeps the forest cooler, wetter, and is one of the best climate solutions available to us. A fascinating (if frustrating) read:
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All of the onslaught is intentional, we've just got to keep pushing back!

Oregon Wild Rallies Public to Defend Roadless Rule - Oregon Wild A proposal has been revived in the Senate to sell off public lands - including those in Oregon - to pay for tax cuts.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has opened a public comment period on a proposal that threatens to dismantle the Roadless Rule, threatening the last of our intact public lands as a home for wildlife, a haven for recreation, and a heritage for future generations.
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YouTube video by Bluz River Productions 2025 Free the Snake River - The Flotilla; What we are FLOATING and VOTING for. (4K)

"It was inspiring - and a lotta fun - supporting our indigenous partners ... along with hundreds of people calling for restoring justice, salmon, and a free-flowing Snake River. It's past time to breach the dams!" -Oregon Wild staff Rob Klavins youtu.be/j-BNG2BevcY?...

The form asks for more information than we are sending to the USDA (so we can target Congressional offices to oppose this in the same action) but we're not passing along to the USDA information like specific addresses (we keep city and state) and we mask the sender's personal email as well.