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Raise your glass, raise your voice, and help us raise critical funds for Oregon’s wild places! Join Oregon Wild and our partners at Call of the Wild 2025!
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River Democracy Act Highlights: Rough and Ready Creek - Oregon Wild Learn how the River Democracy Act would help protect watersheds like Rough and Ready Creek across Oregon.

Learn how proposals like the River Democracy Act and Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act would protect unique watersheds like Rough and Ready Creek all across Oregon. Thank you to @wyden.senate.gov and @senjeffmerkley.bsky.social for co-sponsoring these bills! oregonwild.org/river-democr...

Yep, one of our many spectacular Roadless forests in Oregon!

Hikers walk through a forested meadow of wildflowers and ancient trees in Oregon's Lookout Mountain Inventoried Roadless Area.

Thank you @salinas.house.gov @repdexteror.bsky.social and @repbonamici.bsky.social for standing up for wild intact ecosystems, our drinking watersheds, and backcountry outdoor recreation in our roadless wildlands. #RoadlessRule #SaveRoadless #RoadlessForests

You know what they say, imitation is the sincerest form of fascism 🤷‍♀️

A photo of an event brochure being held up in front of a large room with many people seated around tables.

Joyful resistance and collective action happening now!

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Opal Creek Ancient Forest: Abundance After Wildfire The word “abundance” is on the tip of our sweetened tongues. Melt-in-your-mouth blackberries burst from the native vines twining along the ground. Lazuli Buntings are singing their hear…

I found hope and renewal last weekend while helping with a postfire bird survey in beloved Opal Creek.

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#opalcreek #wildfire #wildfirerenewal #birds #birder #merlinapp #savingwilds #oldgrowth #ancientforest #wilderness #beachiecreekfire @oregonwild.bsky.social

We'd like to say thank you to all of you who spoke up to defend our public lands and a specific SO to
@ronwyden.bsky.social @jeffmerkley.bsky.social
@repdexteror.bsky.social @repvalhoyle.bsky.social
and other members of Congress who opposed efforts to sell off public lands in Oregon and beyond.

The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.

Experts say repealing the "Roadless Rule" won't help stop fires, but it will help loggers.

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#Wildfire #Wildfires #USDA #Forest #Policy #Politics

Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft, and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands.

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft, and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

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#Politics #Utah #AI #NDA #PR #Climate #PublicLand

We urge everyone who spoke out to stop this land sell-off to keep going. Call your Senators and tell them to vote down this harmful bill.

While this development is worth celebrating, the broader reconciliation bill still poses serious threats to our environment, to vulnerable communities, and to the future of public lands. It remains a massive transfer of wealth from everyday Americans to billionaires and should be rejected.

Public Lands Sell-Off Proposal Pulled from Reconciliation Bill - Oregon Wild A Senate proposal to sell off millions of acres of public land to fund tax breaks for billionaires is dead - for now.

We did it! A Senate proposal to sell off millions of acres of public land to fund tax breaks for billionaires is dead. Millions from across the country and the political spectrum joined together to send a clear message: our public lands are not for sale.

"We'll Be Back" Vows Wildlife Funding Coalition - Oregon Wild In the final hours of the 2025 legislative session, a landmark bill to fund wildlife conservation fell short—not for lack of public support, bipartisan backing, or legislative merit.

In the final hours of the 2025 legislative session, a landmark bill to fund wildlife conservation fell short. But we'll be back!

Two Republican senators attempt to kill bipartisan proposal to raise lodging tax for wildlife • Oregon Capital Chronicle Raising the state hotel tax by 1.25 percentage points could send millions to the Fish and Wildlife Department.

This is not a party-line issue. Our wildlife, the habitats they depend on, and the democratic process deserve better.

This is great news, but I'm not breathing a sigh of relief just yet. Republicans will no doubt try to sneak a new provision in that clears this procedural hurdle. But this is a sign of what's possible with public pressure, so if you care about your public lands, keep it up.

Is The Montana Firewall On Public Land Sales Crumbling? A special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from the state’s GOP senators over the last week expose cracks in the Montana delegation’s pro-public lands proclamations.

a special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from Montana's GOP senators over the last week — has the perceived Montana firewall against a public land sell-off started to crumble?

my latest...
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This resignation is a warning sign.

Hands off Crater Lake. Hands off our national parks.

Oregon Outdoor Businesses and Recreation Leaders Rally Behind River Democracy Act - Oregon Wild The Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project and Trail Bridge Dam do not provide fish passage, endangering Chinook salmon and bull trout.

“Our way of life in Oregon is deeply connected to our rivers and public lands,” the letter states. “Whether we’re fishing, guiding, paddling, or simply enjoying the natural beauty, these rivers power both our economy and our identity as Oregonians.”

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Guest column: HB 2977 “1% for wildlife” is a lifeline - The Bulletin On May 25, over the Memorial Day weekend, a passerby found a severely injured river otter on the side of Highway 97 just north of Bend, near Tumalo Place and Deschutes Junction. The otter looked dead,...

"Tourism is vital to our economy, but it must also be part of the solution. That’s why House Bill 2977, 1% for Wildlife, is so important."

Read more at: bendbulletin.com/2025/06/01/g...

Schilling Cider’s KEEP IT WILD Initiative Raises Over $105,000 for Preservation of Wild Spaces Across 11 States | BREWPUBLIC.com SEATTLE, WA – May 23, 2025 – Schilling Cider, a leading craft cidery and champion of sustainability, is proud to announce the extraordinary success

Schilling Cider and its valued distributors have raised over $105,000 for seven nonprofit partners, exceeding its previous gift of $76,500 in 2024! Details in the link below.

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Oregon’s largest ecoregion is at a crossroads - Columbia Insight The Blue Mountains serve critical environmental functions. It’s time to create a vision that responds to the many threats the area faces

Often overlooked, Eastern Oregon forests aren’t cut & dry. They provide one of the best conservation opportunities remaining in the Lower-48. But only if they can survive looming threats.
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America’s Public Lands in Peril: A Conversation on the Future of Our National Treasures - Oregon Wild Join Chuck Sams and Kristen Brengel for a powerful discussion on threats to America's public lands and how we can fight to protect them.

This Wednesday! Join us in a conversation with Chuck Sams, former Director of the National Park Service and the first Indigenous person to lead the agency, and Kristen Brengel, Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Parks Conservation Association.

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Public land sell-off provision out of the budget reconciliation bill - Center for Western Priorities After persistent bipartisan opposition to language that would sell or swap hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Utah and Nevada, House Republicans have scrapped public land sales from the ...

This is still a big, bad, bill, but it just got a bit less bad.
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Little Lava Fire in Central Oregon shows logging does not prevent wildfire spread - Oregon Wild They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and the photo below tells quite a story. This aerial image shows two adjacent forest stands within the Little Lava Fire burn area, in the Deschutes Nation...

We visited the Little Lava fire footprint to see how forests that were commercially logged fared compared to mostly unlogged forests. 👀 previously logged forests still burned at high-severity and, in some cases, burned much hotter than adjacent, unlogged stands
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Yes! If you register for the event (which is free) you'll get a recording sent to you the next day, and you're still welcome to enter the raffle. We also post the video on our YouTube Channel the week after!

Tomorrow night!! In this engaging talk with renowned naturalist and storyteller David Lukas, we’ll explore how and why birds sing, what their songs communicate, and how scientists study these vocalizations.
Register here: oregonwild.org/event/unders...

Congress Launches Their Public Lands Sell Off Trial Balloon - Oregon Wild This week, at nearly midnight, while most of us were asleep, Congressional House Republicans on the Natural Resources committee quietly pushed through a last-minute amendment to sell off thousands of ...

This week, Republicans on the Natural Resources committee quietly pushed through a last-minute amendment to sell off thousands of acres of your public lands. While the amendment was pushed through, Oregon's own @repdexteror.bsky.social stood up for our public lands.
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Readers respond: Boost lodging tax for wildlife spending Letters to the Editor can be submitted to letters@oregonian.com with full name and place of residence.

"The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has identified nearly 300 species at risk, some even in danger of extinction. Unfortunately, the agency tasked with protecting them lacks the resources to do so."
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We'd like to wish a happy Mother's Day to this special wolf, OR135 the breeding female of the newly established Paulina pack! In 2024 she left home to start her own family, and find a place of her own.

Photo taken by ODFW game camera.

#oregonwild #oregonwolves #wildlifeconservation