CASCADIA WILDLANDS we like it wild. PO BOX 10455 • EUGENE, OR 97440
winter 2011
US Postage PAID Nonprofit Org. Permit No. 82 Eugene, OR
winter 2011
news + fun from cascadia wildlands
CASCADIAQUARTERLY
Oregon BLM at a Crossroads Oregon Breaks Elliott Promise Devil’s Staircase Delayed Community Calendar
what’s inside?
Francis Eatherington meets with policymakers to discuss the future of BLM forests in western Oregon (BLM).
What’s Next for Western Oregon BLM Forests Forest Management Up in the Air As Pilot Projects Commence by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director
ADOPT AN OREGON WOLF Gray wolves roamed the Pacific Northwest for millennia, but western settlers completely exterminated them from our region. After a 70-year absence wolves are mounting a return to the Northwest, but powerful industry groups are trying to stop wolves in their tracks. These majestic creatures need your help. Please visit www.CascWild.org today to adopt a wolf and help make history!
Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited Roseburg to meet with federal, state and local elected officials, as well the timber industry and
1994 when it was assumed old growth would be clearcut. But lately, the BLM has come close, or exceeded in some cases, those timber target goals
conservationists. The purpose was to break the “gridlock” in the “locked-up BLM forests” in western Oregon—mantras espoused by the industry and politicians. Cascadia Wildlands pointed out that the only “gridlock” on BLM
with non-controversial plantation thinning sales. Nonetheless, the majority of attendees outside of the conservation community told tales of economic woe and shared the belief that increased BLM logging would solve those problems.
lands was the “locked-up” old-growth forests. It has been years since BLM tried to clearcut old growth. Instead, Roseburg and Coos Bay BLM Districts have been actively thinning young, managed plantations. Cascadia Wildlands seldom objects to projects meant
The BLM’s position was that more restoration logging would provide even more logs to the mills. They invited Drs. Norm Johnson and Jerry Franklin to discuss two types of restoration pilot projects, one for wet forests and one for dry forests in western Oregon.
to restore diversity to old clearcuts. In the last four years, Coos Bay BLM has met 150% of its timber target and Roseburg BLM met almost 74% of its quota. These targets were set in
Ken Salazar then invited us to Washington DC in early December to discuss this further. In Washington, Drs. Johnson and Franklin emphasized that any restoration project must save continued on p. 4
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from Executive Director Kate Ritley I find this disturbing: in the US only 2% of all charitable giving goes to “the environment and animals” (Giving USA). On top of this,
staff
environmental gifts have taken a nosedive since the recession hit. This simply will not do. This year global human population will pass seven billion. Our global climate is changing faster than predicted and the window to reverse or slow this change is rapidly
Sally Cummings
Operations Manager
Francis Eatherington Conservation Director
Dan Kruse
Legal Director
closing. Humanity is testing every limit of our planet. We have reached a defining moment in human history. To confront the array of environmental crises we face, we need all hands on deck and visionary leadership. But with the government repeatedly dropping the leadership ball and
Josh Laughlin
Campaign Director
Kate Ritley
Executive Director
Gabe Scott
Alaska Field Director
industry salivating over short-term profits, our hope lies in innovative and passionate nonprofit groups. These environmental groups, including Cascadia Wildlands, need substantial financial resources to fill the environmental leadership void. We need your support. Your
board of directors Kate Alexander, Secretary Laura Beaton Jeremy Hall, President Paul Kuck Sarah Peters Justin Ramsey Tim Ream Tim Whitley Steve Witten, Treasurer
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
contact PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 541.434.1463 p 541.434.6494 f info@CascWild.org 2
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG
advisory council
Thank you to all of our individual and family supporters and the many volunteers who help us protect wild places!
Huge thanks to the foundations and community groups that have made substantial contributions to support our work: 444S Foundation Acorn Foundation Alaska Conservation Foundation
Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation Fund for Wild Nature
Astrov Fund
Kenney Brothers Watershed Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
Klorfine Family Foundation
Brainerd Foundation
Laird Norton Foundation
Burning Foundation
Loeb-Meginnes Foundation
Deer Creek Foundation
Mazamas
the places and species you love. Plus, your automatic donations mean we spend our time protecting the planet rather than asking for money. It works just like a bill-pay service that charges your credit or debit card (and you can easily change or cancel your gifts at any time). Signing up is
Mountain Rose Herbs
helping us earn a generous Challenge Grant from the Earth Friends Conservation Fund!
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
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+)
P.S. Get more bang for your buck! If you enroll now through June 1 in our monthly giving program, you are
Mark Frohnmayer Donor Advised Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
BUSINESS SUPPORT
support is an investment in our region, our planet, and the future you want for your children. The best way you can support Cascadia Wildlands is by making automatic monthly donations. Your ongoing gifts enable us to launch, execute, and win campaigns to protect
easy and secure at www.CascWild.org. 2011 promises plenty of looming environmental threats, but we are prepared with powerful campaigns to meet these threats. With your ongoing support I know we can rise to this challenge and lead the way to a sustainable future.
THANK YOU!
Test of Humanity
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
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
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
adventure equipment, hand-made jewelry, local gift certificates and much more. We offer huge thanks to our headline sponsors Mountain Rose Herbs and the UO Outdoor Program! Thank you to the donors who showcased their commitment to the environment through generous contributions. Special thanks to all of our volunteer and Event Intern Tanya McDanniel. Your creativity, muscles, and humor made it an evening to remember! We look forward to seeing you in Wonderland in 2011! -Sally Cummings
New Plan Will Raze Endangered Wildlife Habitat by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director Oregon’s 93,000-acre Elliott State Forest is a coastal rainforest with almost half of its original forests
Now, 11 years later, Oregon has changed its mind. It is proposing to abandon the ’95
still intact. It is a haven for endangered species, including northern spotted owls, coho salmon and marbled murrelets. Because of the importance of these rainforests
contract in order to ramp up clearcutting. ODF is proposing a new management plan – one they claim will still protect
to wildlife, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) entered into a 60year contract, called a Habitat Conservation Plan, in 1995 to comply with the Endangered
endangered species (called a “no-take” strategy), even though they would clearcut about 40% more annually. ODF will also break the
Species Act. In this contract, Oregon promised to reserve the west side of the Elliott for endangered species, as well as protect other scattered
promises made in the ’95 plan. Instead of a target of 64% older forests, they can maintain as little as 30%. Instead of maintaining forest reserves, they
forests in the Elliott. Oregon committed to allowing 64% of the Elliott to grow naturally into oldgrowth forest. In exchange for this commitment, Oregon is allowed to
can eventually clearcut everything, except for some small stream buffers. The state’s Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team recently analyzed
raze over 500 acres of rainforests each year.
the adequacy of those small stream buffers to protect
The State of Oregon is razing rainforests on the Elliott (c griffin)
L to r: Board President Jeremy Hall, Executive Director Kate Ritley, Legal Director Dan Kruse, and Operations Manager Sally Cummings welcome guests at the Wonderland Auction (f eatherington).
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Oregon Breaks Elliott Promise
February 22: 4th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival Join us for an evening of captivating, award-winning, and not-to-be missed films as part of Patagonia's Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Sit back and enjoy stunning landscapes and thrilling backcountry adventures, and learn about campaigns working to keep the Earth's wild places wild! Win raffle items donated by local businesses at intermission (raffle ticket comes with price of admission). All tickets at the door. $5 Outdoor Program and Cascadia members/$7 general public. All proceeds go to efforts to protect imperiled species and landscapes in Cascadia. The event is sponsored locally by Backcountry Gear, UO Outdoor Program, Tactics, Ninkasi Brewing and Cascadia Wildlands. Film listings and more info at: CascWild.org. 7-10 pm, 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene.
R Loznak
COMMUNITYCALENDAR
We extend our deepest thanks to all who attended, donated, and otherwise supported our 8th Annual Wonderland Auction on 12.11.10! With your generosity we raised over $35,000 to protect wild places. Auction guests enjoyed jazz by attorneymusicians Dan Kruse and Jeff Kane, libations donated by Yogi Tea, Genesis Juice and Ninkasi Brewery, and exhilarating bidding for an Alaska Adventure Cruise, a native garden for your home, a vacation in the Hamptons, a hosted food cart party, local artwork, outdoor
OREGON COAST COHO Oncorhynchus kisutch
The Oregon Coast coho salmon finds spawning and rearing habitat in the Elliott State Forest's West Fork Millicoma River and its tributaries. Coho salmon typically spend one or two years in their natal rivers and then one-three years in the ocean before returning to spawn. Logging, roading and overfishing have caused a dramatic population decline and “threatened” status under the federal Endangered Species Act.
endangered salmon. It found them to be inadequate and not based on credible science. In spite of all this, the ODF is plowing ahead with plans to decimate the remaining older forests on the Elliott. For more information see CascWild.org/elliott.html. Click on the “take action” link to comment on the proposed management plan. Cascadia Wildlands continues to pursue all options to halt the clearcutting on the Elliott. 3
Devil’s Staircase Falls Victim to Senate Shenanigans Cascadia Vows to Push Forward in the 112th by Josh Laughlin, Campaign Director The stars were nearly aligned for the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Act to pass as the lame duck session of the 111th Congress came to an end in early
The 112th Congress doesn’t look overly promising for moving things like Devil’s Staircase, the Wild Rogue or other public lands legislation forward, particularly in
January 2011. Then a comet hit and blasted the proposal out of the universe. The maverick, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), didn’t get what he wanted, so he successfully derailed the legislation. Then Congress expired.
the House, where Natural Resources Subcommittee leader, Rob Bishop (R-UT), has vowed to oppose Wilderness and Wild and Scenic legislation under his watch. Cascadia Wildlands is recalibrating our campaign
Devil’s Staircase was one of three wilderness bills nationwide that made it onto the final public lands omnibus package crafted by Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) in mid-December. Amongst
strategies and will ensure Devil’s Staircase stays first in line for Congressional protection. We will continue building a groundswell of support to officially protect this “Oregon Treasure,” and we will continue to rely on you to respond to calls for action.
other noble efforts, the bill would have created the nearly 31,000-acre Devil’s Staircase Wilderness in the heart of the Oregon Coast Range, forever protecting an historic rainforest remnant in an area now dominated by a patchwork of tree farms and
Cascadia Wildlands saved this forest on the Roseburg BLM (f eatherington). continued from p. 1
4
big, old trees, by reserving all old growth. They support a hands-off reserve system in wet forests (such as the Coast Range), and a thinning program
private industrial forestlands. The native forests less than 160 years old on public lands are our next generation of old growth, and must be protected to
that targets the smaller diameter trees in unnaturally dense older dry forests that have suffered the effects of fire suppression (found in southern Oregon). Cascadia Wildlands supports these concepts. However, there is an addition proposal that we
help recover imperiled wildlife. The wet forest pilot will be on Roseburg BLM in the Myrtle Creek watershed. The Medford BLM will host the dry forest pilot will in the Applegate watershed with initial meetings to be announced
have reservations about. Franklin and Johnson propose “regeneration harvests” (similar to clearcuts, but with more retention trees) in wet forests under 160 years old. The alleged purpose is to benefit species that prefer clearings or young
soon. Cascadia Wildlands and our conservation colleagues will remain engaged in all facets of the pilots. This job will be critically important as the Secretary has promised a new way forward on
forests (none of which are endangered). Our main objection to this component of the pilot is that there is already an abundance of young forests being created regularly in the area, mostly on
western Oregon BLM lands after quashing the Bush administration’s Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR), which would have ramped up old-growth logging on these forestlands.
logging roads. The bill would have also designated portions of Wasson and Franklin Creeks as Wild and Scenic, adding further protective layers to this stunning old-growth forest, home to coho salmon, marbled murrelets, spotted owls and foot-long Pacific giant salamanders. Also in the larger package was the proposal to expand the Oregon Caves National Monument from 500 to 4,500 acres spearheaded by colleagues at Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center as was a bill to create a Wild and Scenic designation on the Mollala River southwest of Portland. But Senator McCain’s “dog in the fight” in the omnibus package—a land exchange which would have allowed a new copper mine in an Arizona national forest—was quashed due to its controversial nature. Frustrated, McCain pulled his support for the omnibus package, rendering it short of the 60 votes required for passage. Wassen Creek carves through sandstone in Devil’s Staircase (t giraudier).
5
Devil’s Staircase Falls Victim to Senate Shenanigans Cascadia Vows to Push Forward in the 112th by Josh Laughlin, Campaign Director The stars were nearly aligned for the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Act to pass as the lame duck session of the 111th Congress came to an end in early
The 112th Congress doesn’t look overly promising for moving things like Devil’s Staircase, the Wild Rogue or other public lands legislation forward, particularly in
January 2011. Then a comet hit and blasted the proposal out of the universe. The maverick, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), didn’t get what he wanted, so he successfully derailed the legislation. Then Congress expired.
the House, where Natural Resources Subcommittee leader, Rob Bishop (R-UT), has vowed to oppose Wilderness and Wild and Scenic legislation under his watch. Cascadia Wildlands is recalibrating our campaign
Devil’s Staircase was one of three wilderness bills nationwide that made it onto the final public lands omnibus package crafted by Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) in mid-December. Amongst
strategies and will ensure Devil’s Staircase stays first in line for Congressional protection. We will continue building a groundswell of support to officially protect this “Oregon Treasure,” and we will continue to rely on you to respond to calls for action.
other noble efforts, the bill would have created the nearly 31,000-acre Devil’s Staircase Wilderness in the heart of the Oregon Coast Range, forever protecting an historic rainforest remnant in an area now dominated by a patchwork of tree farms and
Cascadia Wildlands saved this forest on the Roseburg BLM (f eatherington). continued from p. 1
4
big, old trees, by reserving all old growth. They support a hands-off reserve system in wet forests (such as the Coast Range), and a thinning program
private industrial forestlands. The native forests less than 160 years old on public lands are our next generation of old growth, and must be protected to
that targets the smaller diameter trees in unnaturally dense older dry forests that have suffered the effects of fire suppression (found in southern Oregon). Cascadia Wildlands supports these concepts. However, there is an addition proposal that we
help recover imperiled wildlife. The wet forest pilot will be on Roseburg BLM in the Myrtle Creek watershed. The Medford BLM will host the dry forest pilot will in the Applegate watershed with initial meetings to be announced
have reservations about. Franklin and Johnson propose “regeneration harvests” (similar to clearcuts, but with more retention trees) in wet forests under 160 years old. The alleged purpose is to benefit species that prefer clearings or young
soon. Cascadia Wildlands and our conservation colleagues will remain engaged in all facets of the pilots. This job will be critically important as the Secretary has promised a new way forward on
forests (none of which are endangered). Our main objection to this component of the pilot is that there is already an abundance of young forests being created regularly in the area, mostly on
western Oregon BLM lands after quashing the Bush administration’s Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR), which would have ramped up old-growth logging on these forestlands.
logging roads. The bill would have also designated portions of Wasson and Franklin Creeks as Wild and Scenic, adding further protective layers to this stunning old-growth forest, home to coho salmon, marbled murrelets, spotted owls and foot-long Pacific giant salamanders. Also in the larger package was the proposal to expand the Oregon Caves National Monument from 500 to 4,500 acres spearheaded by colleagues at Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center as was a bill to create a Wild and Scenic designation on the Mollala River southwest of Portland. But Senator McCain’s “dog in the fight” in the omnibus package—a land exchange which would have allowed a new copper mine in an Arizona national forest—was quashed due to its controversial nature. Frustrated, McCain pulled his support for the omnibus package, rendering it short of the 60 votes required for passage. Wassen Creek carves through sandstone in Devil’s Staircase (t giraudier).
5
adventure equipment, hand-made jewelry, local gift certificates and much more. We offer huge thanks to our headline sponsors Mountain Rose Herbs and the UO Outdoor Program! Thank you to the donors who showcased their commitment to the environment through generous contributions. Special thanks to all of our volunteer and Event Intern Tanya McDanniel. Your creativity, muscles, and humor made it an evening to remember! We look forward to seeing you in Wonderland in 2011! -Sally Cummings
New Plan Will Raze Endangered Wildlife Habitat by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director Oregon’s 93,000-acre Elliott State Forest is a coastal rainforest with almost half of its original forests
Now, 11 years later, Oregon has changed its mind. It is proposing to abandon the ’95
still intact. It is a haven for endangered species, including northern spotted owls, coho salmon and marbled murrelets. Because of the importance of these rainforests
contract in order to ramp up clearcutting. ODF is proposing a new management plan – one they claim will still protect
to wildlife, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) entered into a 60year contract, called a Habitat Conservation Plan, in 1995 to comply with the Endangered
endangered species (called a “no-take” strategy), even though they would clearcut about 40% more annually. ODF will also break the
Species Act. In this contract, Oregon promised to reserve the west side of the Elliott for endangered species, as well as protect other scattered
promises made in the ’95 plan. Instead of a target of 64% older forests, they can maintain as little as 30%. Instead of maintaining forest reserves, they
forests in the Elliott. Oregon committed to allowing 64% of the Elliott to grow naturally into oldgrowth forest. In exchange for this commitment, Oregon is allowed to
can eventually clearcut everything, except for some small stream buffers. The state’s Independent Multidisciplinary Science Team recently analyzed
raze over 500 acres of rainforests each year.
the adequacy of those small stream buffers to protect
The State of Oregon is razing rainforests on the Elliott (c griffin)
L to r: Board President Jeremy Hall, Executive Director Kate Ritley, Legal Director Dan Kruse, and Operations Manager Sally Cummings welcome guests at the Wonderland Auction (f eatherington).
6
Oregon Breaks Elliott Promise
February 22: 4th Annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival Join us for an evening of captivating, award-winning, and not-to-be missed films as part of Patagonia's Wild and Scenic Film Festival. Sit back and enjoy stunning landscapes and thrilling backcountry adventures, and learn about campaigns working to keep the Earth's wild places wild! Win raffle items donated by local businesses at intermission (raffle ticket comes with price of admission). All tickets at the door. $5 Outdoor Program and Cascadia members/$7 general public. All proceeds go to efforts to protect imperiled species and landscapes in Cascadia. The event is sponsored locally by Backcountry Gear, UO Outdoor Program, Tactics, Ninkasi Brewing and Cascadia Wildlands. Film listings and more info at: CascWild.org. 7-10 pm, 180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, University of Oregon, Eugene.
R Loznak
COMMUNITYCALENDAR
We extend our deepest thanks to all who attended, donated, and otherwise supported our 8th Annual Wonderland Auction on 12.11.10! With your generosity we raised over $35,000 to protect wild places. Auction guests enjoyed jazz by attorneymusicians Dan Kruse and Jeff Kane, libations donated by Yogi Tea, Genesis Juice and Ninkasi Brewery, and exhilarating bidding for an Alaska Adventure Cruise, a native garden for your home, a vacation in the Hamptons, a hosted food cart party, local artwork, outdoor
OREGON COAST COHO Oncorhynchus kisutch
The Oregon Coast coho salmon finds spawning and rearing habitat in the Elliott State Forest's West Fork Millicoma River and its tributaries. Coho salmon typically spend one or two years in their natal rivers and then one-three years in the ocean before returning to spawn. Logging, roading and overfishing have caused a dramatic population decline and “threatened” status under the federal Endangered Species Act.
endangered salmon. It found them to be inadequate and not based on credible science. In spite of all this, the ODF is plowing ahead with plans to decimate the remaining older forests on the Elliott. For more information see CascWild.org/elliott.html. Click on the “take action” link to comment on the proposed management plan. Cascadia Wildlands continues to pursue all options to halt the clearcutting on the Elliott. 3
from Executive Director Kate Ritley I find this disturbing: in the US only 2% of all charitable giving goes to “the environment and animals” (Giving USA). On top of this,
staff
environmental gifts have taken a nosedive since the recession hit. This simply will not do. This year global human population will pass seven billion. Our global climate is changing faster than predicted and the window to reverse or slow this change is rapidly
Sally Cummings
Operations Manager
Francis Eatherington Conservation Director
Dan Kruse
Legal Director
closing. Humanity is testing every limit of our planet. We have reached a defining moment in human history. To confront the array of environmental crises we face, we need all hands on deck and visionary leadership. But with the government repeatedly dropping the leadership ball and
Josh Laughlin
Campaign Director
Kate Ritley
Executive Director
Gabe Scott
Alaska Field Director
industry salivating over short-term profits, our hope lies in innovative and passionate nonprofit groups. These environmental groups, including Cascadia Wildlands, need substantial financial resources to fill the environmental leadership void. We need your support. Your
board of directors Kate Alexander, Secretary Laura Beaton Jeremy Hall, President Paul Kuck Sarah Peters Justin Ramsey Tim Ream Tim Whitley Steve Witten, Treasurer
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
contact PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 541.434.1463 p 541.434.6494 f info@CascWild.org 2
WWW.CASCWILD.ORG
advisory council
Thank you to all of our individual and family supporters and the many volunteers who help us protect wild places!
Huge thanks to the foundations and community groups that have made substantial contributions to support our work: 444S Foundation Acorn Foundation Alaska Conservation Foundation
Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation Fund for Wild Nature
Astrov Fund
Kenney Brothers Watershed Foundation
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation
Klorfine Family Foundation
Brainerd Foundation
Laird Norton Foundation
Burning Foundation
Loeb-Meginnes Foundation
Deer Creek Foundation
Mazamas
the places and species you love. Plus, your automatic donations mean we spend our time protecting the planet rather than asking for money. It works just like a bill-pay service that charges your credit or debit card (and you can easily change or cancel your gifts at any time). Signing up is
Mountain Rose Herbs
helping us earn a generous Challenge Grant from the Earth Friends Conservation Fund!
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
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+)
P.S. Get more bang for your buck! If you enroll now through June 1 in our monthly giving program, you are
Mark Frohnmayer Donor Advised Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
BUSINESS SUPPORT
support is an investment in our region, our planet, and the future you want for your children. The best way you can support Cascadia Wildlands is by making automatic monthly donations. Your ongoing gifts enable us to launch, execute, and win campaigns to protect
easy and secure at www.CascWild.org. 2011 promises plenty of looming environmental threats, but we are prepared with powerful campaigns to meet these threats. With your ongoing support I know we can rise to this challenge and lead the way to a sustainable future.
THANK YOU!
Test of Humanity
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
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
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
winter 2011
US Postage PAID Nonprofit Org. Permit No. 82 Eugene, OR
winter 2011
news + fun from cascadia wildlands
CASCADIAQUARTERLY
Oregon BLM at a Crossroads Oregon Breaks Elliott Promise Devil’s Staircase Delayed Community Calendar
what’s inside?
Francis Eatherington meets with policymakers to discuss the future of BLM forests in western Oregon (BLM).
What’s Next for Western Oregon BLM Forests Forest Management Up in the Air As Pilot Projects Commence by Francis Eatherington, Conservation Director
ADOPT AN OREGON WOLF Gray wolves roamed the Pacific Northwest for millennia, but western settlers completely exterminated them from our region. After a 70-year absence wolves are mounting a return to the Northwest, but powerful industry groups are trying to stop wolves in their tracks. These majestic creatures need your help. Please visit www.CascWild.org today to adopt a wolf and help make history!
Last October, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar visited Roseburg to meet with federal, state and local elected officials, as well the timber industry and
1994 when it was assumed old growth would be clearcut. But lately, the BLM has come close, or exceeded in some cases, those timber target goals
conservationists. The purpose was to break the “gridlock” in the “locked-up BLM forests” in western Oregon—mantras espoused by the industry and politicians. Cascadia Wildlands pointed out that the only “gridlock” on BLM
with non-controversial plantation thinning sales. Nonetheless, the majority of attendees outside of the conservation community told tales of economic woe and shared the belief that increased BLM logging would solve those problems.
lands was the “locked-up” old-growth forests. It has been years since BLM tried to clearcut old growth. Instead, Roseburg and Coos Bay BLM Districts have been actively thinning young, managed plantations. Cascadia Wildlands seldom objects to projects meant
The BLM’s position was that more restoration logging would provide even more logs to the mills. They invited Drs. Norm Johnson and Jerry Franklin to discuss two types of restoration pilot projects, one for wet forests and one for dry forests in western Oregon.
to restore diversity to old clearcuts. In the last four years, Coos Bay BLM has met 150% of its timber target and Roseburg BLM met almost 74% of its quota. These targets were set in
Ken Salazar then invited us to Washington DC in early December to discuss this further. In Washington, Drs. Johnson and Franklin emphasized that any restoration project must save continued on p. 4
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