CASCADIA WILDLANDS we like it wild. PO BOX 10455 • EUGENE, OR 97440
fall 2010
US Postage PAID Nonprofit Org. Permit No. 82 Eugene, OR
fall 2010
news + fun from cascadia wildlands
CASCADIAQUARTERLY
Trapper Project Not a Keeper Reducing Roadkill on Interstate 5 Stopping the Oregon Gas Line Community Calendar
what’s inside?
THE ELLIOTT RAINFOREST NEEDS YOU Our campaign to stop the destruction of this Oregon coast paradise needs your support. Please give a tax-deductible charitable contribution to save the Elliott before December 31 at www.CascWild.org
Rainforests are converted to wastelands on the Elliott (j laughlin).
Wolf Rock looms behind the old forests slated for logging in the Trapper timber sale (j laughlin).
Trapper is Not a Keeper
Cascadia Continues Fight for McKenzie River Forests by Dan Kruse, Legal Director The Trapper timber sale has been giving us heartburn for more than a decade. A relic of past management, the Trapper timber sale was first
decade ago. Several threatened spotted owls pairs have moved in close to the timber sale boundaries, despite the fact that their numbers locally and
proposed by the Forest Service in 1999 when logging old growth was commonplace on the Willamette National Forest and when nearly everything the Forest Service did was mired in protests and litigation. The 149 acres of logging would occur entirely
regionally continue to decline. Surveyors from the Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team (NEST) discovered dozens of red tree voles, another vulnerable and protected species, nesting in the canopy of the area’s old-growth trees. Had these nests been located during
within forests that have never been logged before, located above Blue River in the McKenzie River watershed east of Eugene. Some areas proposed for logging are several centuries old and are home to enormous trees, northern spotted owls, and other rare
the project’s development (the Forest Service surveyed but did not find much), ten-acre, no-logging buffers would have been required around each. On October 13, Cascadia Wildlands, along with our partners at Oregon Wild and the Western
and vulnerable species. Wolf Rock, Oregon’s largest monolith, stands prominently in the background of the timber sale. A lot has happened since Trapper was planned a
Environmental Law Center, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trapper timber sale. The lawsuit claims that the impacts from the timber sale are much greater than had been originally anticipated, and that the Forest continued on p. 4
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from Executive Director Kate Ritley
On Election Day, news outlets across Oregon ran an Associated Press story titled “State plan would boost logging: The new Elliott
staff Operations Manager
Francis Eatherington Conservation Director
Dan Kruse
Legal Director
Josh Laughlin
Campaign Director
Kate Ritley
Executive Director
Kate Alexander, Secretary Laura Beaton Jeremy Hall, President Paul Kuck Sarah Peters Justin Ramsey Tim Ream Tim Whitley Steve Witten, Treasurer
contact PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 541.434.1463 p 541.434.6494 f info@CascWild.org 2
Fund for Wild Nature
For a state facing a full-blown school budget crisis, this headline is tragically misleading. In truth, the new Elliott plan
Brainerd Foundation
Laird Norton Foundation
Burning Foundation
would increase income for Oregon schools by a mere 0.08%. And to accomplish this, the state will liquidate irreplaceable natural resource reserves at the lowest price in market history.
Deer Creek Foundation
Loeb-Meginnes Foundation
We cannot log, drill, or mine our way out of a recession. We cannot clearcut our way out of a school funding crisis. What we can, and should, do is keep the Elliott rainforest
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG
Amy Atwood Jason Blazar Ralph Bloemers Susan Jane Brown Alan Dickman, PhD Jim Flynn Timothy Ingalsbee, PhD Megan Kemple Pollyanna Lind, MS Beverly McDonald Lauren Regan, AAL, Chair
Alaska Conservation Foundation
Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation
Klorfine Family Foundation
to protect the Elliott from this short-sighted scheme.
advisory council
Acorn Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
The on-the-ground reality of this new plan is gruesome: vast swaths of climate cooling rainforests will be razed. Mountainsides will be stripped of vegetation and soaked in herbicides. Rather than a rainforest paradise, Oregon’s children will inherit wastelands. It is our moral and civic duty
board of directors
444S Foundation
Astrov Fund
Gabe Scott
Alaska Field Director
Huge thanks to the foundations and community groups that have made substantial contributions to support our work:
Kenney Brothers Watershed Foundation
State Forest proposal would generate more money for schools.” Hardly.
Sally Cummings
Thank you to all of our individual and family supporters and the many volunteers who help us protect wild places!
standing for the good of Oregon’s children today and tomorrow. Thanks to your support, Cascadia Wildlands is leading the fight to keep the Elliott standing for the benefit of many generations to come.
THANK YOU!
Schools as Scapegoats?
Mazamas
Mark Frohnmayer Donor Advised Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
Sperling Foundation
Norcross Wildlife Foundation
Winky Foundation
Suwinski Family Foundation
Titcomb Foundation Roger Millis Donor Advised Unitarian Universalist Fund of the Oregon Church of Eugene Community Foundation McKenzie River Gathering University of Oregon Outdoor Program Foundation Wilburforce Foundation Meyer Memorial Trust
BUSINESS SUPPORT A sustainable planet is essential to sustainable business. That’s why more and more companies are actively investing in Cascadia Wildlands. Business support saves wild places from imminent destruction and wildlife from extinction. Please join us in thanking and patronizing the visionary businesses that support our work with generous cash contributions:
Business Champions ($5,000+) Patagonia, Inc
Business Partners ($2,500-4,999)
Business Sustainers ($1000-2499)
Business Friends ($250-999)
Pivot Architecture Pizza Research Institute Tactics Board Shop
Backcountry Gear Ltd. Emerald Valley Kitchen River Jewelry Southern Explorations Sundance Natural Market
Mountain Rose Herbs
In addition, hundreds of businesses contribute goods and services to support Cascadia Wildlands, especially through our annual Wonderland Auction. Please help us thank the businesses that support our work with generous in-kind contributions: Discovery Voyages Ninkasi Brewing Company Paul’s Bicycle Way of Life Tsunami Sushi
Cascadia Comings and Goings The Cascadia Wildlands Board of Directors is thrilled to welcome two new members, Sarah Peters and Tim Whitley! Sarah is an attorney with Wildlands CPR, an ally working to curb OHV destruction on public lands. Tim is a long-time environmental educator and recreation enthusiast. Welcome, Tim and Sarah!
Cascadia Wildlands is a proud Recipient organization of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet.
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG Check out our website to stay in-the-know and connect with your community! Sign up for e-alerts, join the cause on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and instantly take action on timely issues! (And don’t worry, we absolutely never share or sell your info!) 7
Advocates for “Wildlife Friendly” Highway Expansion by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director
Central Oregon Cascade Peaks Early this fall, snow blanketed Cascadia’s volancic peaks (j johnston).
February 22: 4th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival Cascadia
Wildlands and UO Outdoor Program. Enjoy award-winning films about wild nature and renowned campaigns to protect it. 7-10 pm. 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, University of Oregon.
December 11: 7th Annual Wonderland Auction Join us for a benefit gala featuring dinner, drinks, live music, exhilarating auctions, and abundant holiday cheer. Get ready to bid in the live auction on a luxurious small-ship cruise for 2 in Alaska, Oregon coast vacations, a weekend in a beautiful Oregon Cascades cabin, a winetasting limo tour, and much more! The silent auction will feature outdoor gear, local wines, certificates to your favorite local restaurants, and gift packs to suit every taste (including those hard-to-shop-for family members on your holiday list)! 7 pm University of Oregon EMU Ballroom at 13th and University in Eugene Tickets $20 advance at www.CascWild.org, $25 day of event, 12 & under free. Thanks to the generosity of these event sponsors, every dollar raised will go directly to protecting wild places: Mountain Rose Herbs, UO Outdoor Program, Ninkasi Brewing For more information and details, please visit www.CascWild.org.
Interstate-5 travels through stunning country in southwest Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains, an
including two cubs. More were killed and thrown off the road so they are not counted in Oregon
area with little urban sprawl and wild animals on the loose. Between Canyonville and Grants Pass, I-5 cuts through an occasional oldgrowth forest, oak savannah
Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) road-kill data. A cougar was found dead on the highway, along with hundreds of other animals trying the death-defying
woodlands, and over wild salmon streams. The animals that have always lived in these ecosystems include bears, squirrels, cougars, martens, elk, salamanders, turtles
act of crossing I-5. But there is hope. The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and ODOT are teaming up to widen Interstate-5 over the
and so many other critters. Their homes were ripped in half in the early 1960s when I-5 was built, before the age of environmental reviews, without a
mountain passes. They will have engineers and big equipment in this wild country. This will be our best opportunity in 50 years to address the wildlife crossing
thought to how a 300-foot wide slab of tarmac, carrying over 50,000 vehicles a day, would impact migration routes and access to nesting, feeding and breeding
problems. Solutions could include new wildlife overpasses like have happened elsewhere in the West, retrofitting existing
haunts. Now we see them on the highway, squished and mangled. Just in the last year in this small stretch, four bear were killed,
culverts to be wildlife friendly, or fencing to guide wildlife toward underpasses. We asked ODOT about their plans and found they had not given wildlife much thought,
help by emailing Mark Leedom, Project Leader for the “I-5 Jumpoff Joe to Glendale Project,” at
and the agency plans to exclude the widening project from a full environmental review. ODOT needs
Mark.D.Leedom@odot.state.or.us, with a cc to the FHA Environmental Program Manager, Michelle Eraut, Michelle.Eraut@fhwa.dot.gov. Ask them to study the wildlife
encouragement to get it to seriously consider the wildlife crossing I-5. You can
www.firstpeople.us
COMMUNITYCALENDAR 6
Roadkill on Interstate-5 Cascadia
BLACK BEAR
Ursus americanus Their combination of intelligence, strength and dexterity makes black bears excellent swimmers, adept treeclimbers, and cunning camp robbers. These solitary, forestdwelling omnivores live throughout the Cascadia bioregion. Primary threats black bears face are habitat loss, traffic deaths, sport hunting and poaching, and habituation to human food and garbage.
crossing problems and design some solutions. Since the bulldozers will be there anyway, now is the best time to fix our past mistakes.
Cascadia is urging the state of Oregon to consider a model similar to this Sonoran Desert wildlife overpass in Arizona (coalition for sonoran desert protection).
3
Opposition Mounts Against Oregon Gas Line Coalition takes on Pipeline that Threatens Open Spaces and Habitat by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is gas that has been Oregon. After California rejected numerous LNG imported on ships from a foreign country rather than terminals, energy companies came to Oregon and the natural gas we use in our homes that is produced in proposed three of them: Bradwood on the Columbia
The icy McKenzie River (b cole).
River near Portland, Oregon LNG on the Columbia River near Astoria, and Jordon Cove. Earlier this year Bradwood went bankrupt. Oregon LNG’s application is moving along, and Jordon Cove appears to be gaining momentum.
Coos Bay, Oregon. From Coos Bay, the gas would be sent to California through a 230-mile long pipeline buried through southern Oregon. Cascadia Wildlands is opposed to this proposal which increases our dependence on unstable foreign
Energy companies involved in the Coos Bay Jordon Cove Regasification Plant and southern Oregon Pacific Connector Pipeline project include Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a major California utility whose pipeline recently blew up a neighborhood in San Bruno, Williams
governments for fossil fuels that exacerbate climate change. Moreover, the regasification plant would degrade the habitat of marine mammals and other endangered sea life in and around Coos Bay. It would be built in a tsunami zone on a sand dune, and within a
Pipeline Company, and Fort Chicago from Canada. More information can be found at www.nocaliforniapipeline.com
Service has failed to consider the newly discovered information about spotted owls and red tree voles. The Trapper timber sale is nothing new to the
endangered bull trout, and one of the premiere fishing and white-water rafting destinations in the Northwest. After decades of clearcutting in the
blast zone where thousands of people live. To build the pipeline, a 100-foot wide clearcut through the forest is needed, and the line would cross over almost 400 streams and through some of the most unstable hillsides in Oregon. Seventy miles of the
courtroom. It has been subject to a number of flawed endangered species analyses in the past, which have all been rendered illegal each time after being challenged. We believe it is long overdue that the Forest Service pull the plug on the project.
watershed, we believe the old forests of the McKenzie are best left standing for their incomparable ability to store carbon and mitigate climate change, for the recreational opportunities they provide, and for the vital fish and wildlife they
pipeline would be clearcut through federal lands, including through old-growth reserves designated for marbled murrelets, spotted owls, and salmon. The rest of the pipeline is through private land, where the federal government has given the multi-
The McKenzie River watershed is an incredible and special place. It is the source of Eugene’s drinking water, home to wild salmon and
harbor. To help us with this effort, visit CascWild.org to send a personalized auto-letter to the Forest Service about Trapper.
national energy companies permission to condemn land if families object to either the pipeline itself, or to the tiny one-time payment offered for the right-of-way. Cascadia Wildlands is part of a strong coalition opposing the Jordon Cove pipeline and is currently
continued from p. 1
Carbon Sink in Oregon Scientists have found that Oregon’s wet forests can store more carbon per acre than almost any other place on Earth. Carbon in the atmosphere is the primary cause of climate change. Yet, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) admits that clearcutting 644 acres in the Elliott State Forest in 2011 will release 78,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Clearcutting one of the richest carbon sinks in the world means that even ODF’s low-ball estimation of its carbon footprint is a significant contribution to global warming, equivalent to 21,050 people driving their cars 10,000 miles in 2011. 4
North America. Liquefying gas allows more volume to be put on ocean tankers, shipped from LNG exporting countries, like Russia, to ports that have regasification terminals. That is what’s proposed at the Jordon Cove site in
working with the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) to challenge the federal government’s decision approving the project. Jordon Cove is not the only LNG proposal in This centuries-old madrone lies in the path of the proposed Jordon Cove pipeline (f eatherington).
5
Opposition Mounts Against Oregon Gas Line Coalition takes on Pipeline that Threatens Open Spaces and Habitat by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is gas that has been Oregon. After California rejected numerous LNG imported on ships from a foreign country rather than terminals, energy companies came to Oregon and the natural gas we use in our homes that is produced in proposed three of them: Bradwood on the Columbia
The icy McKenzie River (b cole).
River near Portland, Oregon LNG on the Columbia River near Astoria, and Jordon Cove. Earlier this year Bradwood went bankrupt. Oregon LNG’s application is moving along, and Jordon Cove appears to be gaining momentum.
Coos Bay, Oregon. From Coos Bay, the gas would be sent to California through a 230-mile long pipeline buried through southern Oregon. Cascadia Wildlands is opposed to this proposal which increases our dependence on unstable foreign
Energy companies involved in the Coos Bay Jordon Cove Regasification Plant and southern Oregon Pacific Connector Pipeline project include Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a major California utility whose pipeline recently blew up a neighborhood in San Bruno, Williams
governments for fossil fuels that exacerbate climate change. Moreover, the regasification plant would degrade the habitat of marine mammals and other endangered sea life in and around Coos Bay. It would be built in a tsunami zone on a sand dune, and within a
Pipeline Company, and Fort Chicago from Canada. More information can be found at www.nocaliforniapipeline.com
Service has failed to consider the newly discovered information about spotted owls and red tree voles. The Trapper timber sale is nothing new to the
endangered bull trout, and one of the premiere fishing and white-water rafting destinations in the Northwest. After decades of clearcutting in the
blast zone where thousands of people live. To build the pipeline, a 100-foot wide clearcut through the forest is needed, and the line would cross over almost 400 streams and through some of the most unstable hillsides in Oregon. Seventy miles of the
courtroom. It has been subject to a number of flawed endangered species analyses in the past, which have all been rendered illegal each time after being challenged. We believe it is long overdue that the Forest Service pull the plug on the project.
watershed, we believe the old forests of the McKenzie are best left standing for their incomparable ability to store carbon and mitigate climate change, for the recreational opportunities they provide, and for the vital fish and wildlife they
pipeline would be clearcut through federal lands, including through old-growth reserves designated for marbled murrelets, spotted owls, and salmon. The rest of the pipeline is through private land, where the federal government has given the multi-
The McKenzie River watershed is an incredible and special place. It is the source of Eugene’s drinking water, home to wild salmon and
harbor. To help us with this effort, visit CascWild.org to send a personalized auto-letter to the Forest Service about Trapper.
national energy companies permission to condemn land if families object to either the pipeline itself, or to the tiny one-time payment offered for the right-of-way. Cascadia Wildlands is part of a strong coalition opposing the Jordon Cove pipeline and is currently
continued from p. 1
Carbon Sink in Oregon Scientists have found that Oregon’s wet forests can store more carbon per acre than almost any other place on Earth. Carbon in the atmosphere is the primary cause of climate change. Yet, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) admits that clearcutting 644 acres in the Elliott State Forest in 2011 will release 78,000 tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Clearcutting one of the richest carbon sinks in the world means that even ODF’s low-ball estimation of its carbon footprint is a significant contribution to global warming, equivalent to 21,050 people driving their cars 10,000 miles in 2011. 4
North America. Liquefying gas allows more volume to be put on ocean tankers, shipped from LNG exporting countries, like Russia, to ports that have regasification terminals. That is what’s proposed at the Jordon Cove site in
working with the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) to challenge the federal government’s decision approving the project. Jordon Cove is not the only LNG proposal in This centuries-old madrone lies in the path of the proposed Jordon Cove pipeline (f eatherington).
5
Advocates for “Wildlife Friendly” Highway Expansion by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director
Central Oregon Cascade Peaks Early this fall, snow blanketed Cascadia’s volancic peaks (j johnston).
February 22: 4th annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival Cascadia
Wildlands and UO Outdoor Program. Enjoy award-winning films about wild nature and renowned campaigns to protect it. 7-10 pm. 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, University of Oregon.
December 11: 7th Annual Wonderland Auction Join us for a benefit gala featuring dinner, drinks, live music, exhilarating auctions, and abundant holiday cheer. Get ready to bid in the live auction on a luxurious small-ship cruise for 2 in Alaska, Oregon coast vacations, a weekend in a beautiful Oregon Cascades cabin, a winetasting limo tour, and much more! The silent auction will feature outdoor gear, local wines, certificates to your favorite local restaurants, and gift packs to suit every taste (including those hard-to-shop-for family members on your holiday list)! 7 pm University of Oregon EMU Ballroom at 13th and University in Eugene Tickets $20 advance at www.CascWild.org, $25 day of event, 12 & under free. Thanks to the generosity of these event sponsors, every dollar raised will go directly to protecting wild places: Mountain Rose Herbs, UO Outdoor Program, Ninkasi Brewing For more information and details, please visit www.CascWild.org.
Interstate-5 travels through stunning country in southwest Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains, an
including two cubs. More were killed and thrown off the road so they are not counted in Oregon
area with little urban sprawl and wild animals on the loose. Between Canyonville and Grants Pass, I-5 cuts through an occasional oldgrowth forest, oak savannah
Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) road-kill data. A cougar was found dead on the highway, along with hundreds of other animals trying the death-defying
woodlands, and over wild salmon streams. The animals that have always lived in these ecosystems include bears, squirrels, cougars, martens, elk, salamanders, turtles
act of crossing I-5. But there is hope. The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) and ODOT are teaming up to widen Interstate-5 over the
and so many other critters. Their homes were ripped in half in the early 1960s when I-5 was built, before the age of environmental reviews, without a
mountain passes. They will have engineers and big equipment in this wild country. This will be our best opportunity in 50 years to address the wildlife crossing
thought to how a 300-foot wide slab of tarmac, carrying over 50,000 vehicles a day, would impact migration routes and access to nesting, feeding and breeding
problems. Solutions could include new wildlife overpasses like have happened elsewhere in the West, retrofitting existing
haunts. Now we see them on the highway, squished and mangled. Just in the last year in this small stretch, four bear were killed,
culverts to be wildlife friendly, or fencing to guide wildlife toward underpasses. We asked ODOT about their plans and found they had not given wildlife much thought,
help by emailing Mark Leedom, Project Leader for the “I-5 Jumpoff Joe to Glendale Project,” at
and the agency plans to exclude the widening project from a full environmental review. ODOT needs
Mark.D.Leedom@odot.state.or.us, with a cc to the FHA Environmental Program Manager, Michelle Eraut, Michelle.Eraut@fhwa.dot.gov. Ask them to study the wildlife
encouragement to get it to seriously consider the wildlife crossing I-5. You can
www.firstpeople.us
COMMUNITYCALENDAR 6
Roadkill on Interstate-5 Cascadia
BLACK BEAR
Ursus americanus Their combination of intelligence, strength and dexterity makes black bears excellent swimmers, adept treeclimbers, and cunning camp robbers. These solitary, forestdwelling omnivores live throughout the Cascadia bioregion. Primary threats black bears face are habitat loss, traffic deaths, sport hunting and poaching, and habituation to human food and garbage.
crossing problems and design some solutions. Since the bulldozers will be there anyway, now is the best time to fix our past mistakes.
Cascadia is urging the state of Oregon to consider a model similar to this Sonoran Desert wildlife overpass in Arizona (coalition for sonoran desert protection).
3
from Executive Director Kate Ritley
On Election Day, news outlets across Oregon ran an Associated Press story titled “State plan would boost logging: The new Elliott
staff Operations Manager
Francis Eatherington Conservation Director
Dan Kruse
Legal Director
Josh Laughlin
Campaign Director
Kate Ritley
Executive Director
Kate Alexander, Secretary Laura Beaton Jeremy Hall, President Paul Kuck Sarah Peters Justin Ramsey Tim Ream Tim Whitley Steve Witten, Treasurer
contact PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 541.434.1463 p 541.434.6494 f info@CascWild.org 2
Fund for Wild Nature
For a state facing a full-blown school budget crisis, this headline is tragically misleading. In truth, the new Elliott plan
Brainerd Foundation
Laird Norton Foundation
Burning Foundation
would increase income for Oregon schools by a mere 0.08%. And to accomplish this, the state will liquidate irreplaceable natural resource reserves at the lowest price in market history.
Deer Creek Foundation
Loeb-Meginnes Foundation
We cannot log, drill, or mine our way out of a recession. We cannot clearcut our way out of a school funding crisis. What we can, and should, do is keep the Elliott rainforest
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG
Amy Atwood Jason Blazar Ralph Bloemers Susan Jane Brown Alan Dickman, PhD Jim Flynn Timothy Ingalsbee, PhD Megan Kemple Pollyanna Lind, MS Beverly McDonald Lauren Regan, AAL, Chair
Alaska Conservation Foundation
Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation
Klorfine Family Foundation
to protect the Elliott from this short-sighted scheme.
advisory council
Acorn Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
The on-the-ground reality of this new plan is gruesome: vast swaths of climate cooling rainforests will be razed. Mountainsides will be stripped of vegetation and soaked in herbicides. Rather than a rainforest paradise, Oregon’s children will inherit wastelands. It is our moral and civic duty
board of directors
444S Foundation
Astrov Fund
Gabe Scott
Alaska Field Director
Huge thanks to the foundations and community groups that have made substantial contributions to support our work:
Kenney Brothers Watershed Foundation
State Forest proposal would generate more money for schools.” Hardly.
Sally Cummings
Thank you to all of our individual and family supporters and the many volunteers who help us protect wild places!
standing for the good of Oregon’s children today and tomorrow. Thanks to your support, Cascadia Wildlands is leading the fight to keep the Elliott standing for the benefit of many generations to come.
THANK YOU!
Schools as Scapegoats?
Mazamas
Mark Frohnmayer Donor Advised Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
Sperling Foundation
Norcross Wildlife Foundation
Winky Foundation
Suwinski Family Foundation
Titcomb Foundation Roger Millis Donor Advised Unitarian Universalist Fund of the Oregon Church of Eugene Community Foundation McKenzie River Gathering University of Oregon Outdoor Program Foundation Wilburforce Foundation Meyer Memorial Trust
BUSINESS SUPPORT A sustainable planet is essential to sustainable business. That’s why more and more companies are actively investing in Cascadia Wildlands. Business support saves wild places from imminent destruction and wildlife from extinction. Please join us in thanking and patronizing the visionary businesses that support our work with generous cash contributions:
Business Champions ($5,000+) Patagonia, Inc
Business Partners ($2,500-4,999)
Business Sustainers ($1000-2499)
Business Friends ($250-999)
Pivot Architecture Pizza Research Institute Tactics Board Shop
Backcountry Gear Ltd. Emerald Valley Kitchen River Jewelry Southern Explorations Sundance Natural Market
Mountain Rose Herbs
In addition, hundreds of businesses contribute goods and services to support Cascadia Wildlands, especially through our annual Wonderland Auction. Please help us thank the businesses that support our work with generous in-kind contributions: Discovery Voyages Ninkasi Brewing Company Paul’s Bicycle Way of Life Tsunami Sushi
Cascadia Comings and Goings The Cascadia Wildlands Board of Directors is thrilled to welcome two new members, Sarah Peters and Tim Whitley! Sarah is an attorney with Wildlands CPR, an ally working to curb OHV destruction on public lands. Tim is a long-time environmental educator and recreation enthusiast. Welcome, Tim and Sarah!
Cascadia Wildlands is a proud Recipient organization of 1% for the Planet, an alliance of businesses committed to leveraging their resources to create a healthier planet.
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG Check out our website to stay in-the-know and connect with your community! Sign up for e-alerts, join the cause on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and instantly take action on timely issues! (And don’t worry, we absolutely never share or sell your info!) 7
CASCADIA WILDLANDS we like it wild. PO BOX 10455 • EUGENE, OR 97440
fall 2010
US Postage PAID Nonprofit Org. Permit No. 82 Eugene, OR
fall 2010
news + fun from cascadia wildlands
CASCADIAQUARTERLY
Trapper Project Not a Keeper Reducing Roadkill on Interstate 5 Stopping the Oregon Gas Line Community Calendar
what’s inside?
THE ELLIOTT RAINFOREST NEEDS YOU Our campaign to stop the destruction of this Oregon coast paradise needs your support. Please give a tax-deductible charitable contribution to save the Elliott before December 31 at www.CascWild.org
Rainforests are converted to wastelands on the Elliott (j laughlin).
Wolf Rock looms behind the old forests slated for logging in the Trapper timber sale (j laughlin).
Trapper is Not a Keeper
Cascadia Continues Fight for McKenzie River Forests by Dan Kruse, Legal Director The Trapper timber sale has been giving us heartburn for more than a decade. A relic of past management, the Trapper timber sale was first
decade ago. Several threatened spotted owls pairs have moved in close to the timber sale boundaries, despite the fact that their numbers locally and
proposed by the Forest Service in 1999 when logging old growth was commonplace on the Willamette National Forest and when nearly everything the Forest Service did was mired in protests and litigation. The 149 acres of logging would occur entirely
regionally continue to decline. Surveyors from the Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team (NEST) discovered dozens of red tree voles, another vulnerable and protected species, nesting in the canopy of the area’s old-growth trees. Had these nests been located during
within forests that have never been logged before, located above Blue River in the McKenzie River watershed east of Eugene. Some areas proposed for logging are several centuries old and are home to enormous trees, northern spotted owls, and other rare
the project’s development (the Forest Service surveyed but did not find much), ten-acre, no-logging buffers would have been required around each. On October 13, Cascadia Wildlands, along with our partners at Oregon Wild and the Western
and vulnerable species. Wolf Rock, Oregon’s largest monolith, stands prominently in the background of the timber sale. A lot has happened since Trapper was planned a
Environmental Law Center, filed a lawsuit to stop the Trapper timber sale. The lawsuit claims that the impacts from the timber sale are much greater than had been originally anticipated, and that the Forest continued on p. 4
1