KS 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 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 MoreKlamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center joined the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center in suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying endangered species protection to West Coast fishers.
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 MoreOregon Congressman Peter DeFazio announced today the introduction of legislation that boosts recreation opportunities in Southwest Oregon, while protecting habitat for wild salmon and steelhead. Rep. DeFazio’s Wild Rogue Conservation and Recreation Enhancement Act would establish the Rogue Canyon National Recreation Area, while expanding the Wild Rogue Wilderness.
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 MoreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Fish and Wildlife) will reinstate federal protections for old-growth forests, forests essential for the survival of the northern spotted owl. Conservation groups across the Pacific Northwest had filed a lawsuit challenging a last-minute Trump administration rule that stripped northern spotted owls of millions of acres of protected critical habitat.
Read MoreConservation groups filed a formal notice today of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its denial of Endangered Species Act protection to the majority of fishers on the West Coast.
Read MoreThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, and the Yurok Tribe announced a final rule that will help facilitate the creation of a new California condor release facility for the reintroduction of condors to Yurok Ancestral Territory and Redwood National Park
Read MoreKS Wild joined on to a coalition of Western wolf advocates who challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to prematurely strip wolves of federal protections in the contiguous 48 states, in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read MoreA coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withhold Endangered Species Act protection from wolverines in the lower 48 states, where no more than 300 wolverines remain. Without the new conservation efforts that would be triggered by the Endangered Species Act listing, wolverines face localized extinction as a result of climate change, habitat fragmentation and low genetic diversity.
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 MoreThe Trump administration today denied Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific fishers from Northern California to the Canadian border, but granted them endangered status in the southern Sierra. The decision reversed a 2019 proposal to list fishers as threatened throughout their West Coast range.
Read MoreAccording to a just released 2019 status report by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon’s wolf population has grown but its most famous member may have died. ODFW biologists presume that the wolf OR-7 who has not been observed in many months died of natural causes. OR-7 was last photographed in the fall and was considered to be very old for a wolf in the wild at 11 years of age.
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