Vol 36 #2 - Fall 2009

Oregon Wild Fall 2009 Volume 36, Number 2

Oregon’s Old Growth.

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Formerly Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC) Working to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy.

Main Office 5825 N Greeley Avenue Portland, OR 97217 Phone: 503.283.6343 Fax: 503.283.0756 www.oregonwild.org

Western Field Office P.O. Box 11648 Eugene, OR 97440 454 Willamette, Suite 203 Phone 541.344.0675 Fax: 541.343.0996

The e-mail address for each Oregon Wild staff member: initials@oregonwild.org (for example: rm@oregonwild.org)

Conservation & Restoration Coord. Doug Heiken x1 Western OR Wildlands Advocate Chandra LeGue x 2

Executive Director Conservation Director Director of Finance & Admin.

Director of Development Wilderness Coord.

Klamath Campaign Coord.

Roadless Wildlands Advocate Communications Associate Membership Coord.

Naturalist

Regna Merritt Steve Pedery Candice Guth Allison Oseth Erik Fernandez Ani Kame’enui Rob Klavins Sean Stevens Cheryl Lohrmann Wendell Wood

Oregon Wild Board of Directors President Vice President/Treasurer Secretary

Gary Guttormsen Megan Gibb Rand Schenck

Susan Applegate Pat Clancy Mike Helm Jan Wilson

Jim Baker Chad Kromm Jane Malarkey Leslie Logan

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Eastern Field Office 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR 97701 Phone: 541.382.2616 Fax: 541.385.3370 Eastern OR Wildlands Advocate

Tim Lillebo

Design Graphic Designer

Ali House

ONRC Action Board of Directors President Treasurer Secretary

Pat Clancy Megan Gibb Jan Wilson

Susan Applegate Gary Guttormsen Tom Lininger

Jim Baker Chad Kromm Rand Schenck

Oregon’s old growth. Saved?

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Celebrating 35 years

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COVER PH OTO: L A R RY O LSO N Classic old-grow th Ponderosa at Lookout Mountain, Ochoco National Forest

Oregon Wild is a tax-exempt, non-profit charitable organization. ONRC Action is a tax-exempt, non-profit social welfare organization. Contributions to Oregon Wild are tax-deductible for those who itemize; contributions to ONRC Action are not. Staff are employees of Oregon Wild, which contracts with ONRC Action to carry out its activities. Portions of this newsletter are paid for by ONRC Action.

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From the Director’s Desk

35 years of a wild Oregon Regna Merritt

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es! We are celebrating our 35th year this fall. With your help, we’ve come a long way. From our beginnings around a campfire to a small office in Eugene where three staff shared one salary (and one suit coat), we are now one of the most respected statewide conservation organizations in the nation.

Our name has changed (twice!), but our work has not. At every important turning point in the long battle to protect wilderness and old-growth forests in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, we’ve led the charge.

We’ve helped save over two million acres of Oregon Wilderness and 1,600 miles of Wild & Scenic Rivers.

Together we’ve leveraged important regional advances (the Northwest Forest Plan) and national protections (the Roadless Area Conservation Rule).

And what a great year 2009 has been.

First there was the sweet victory on March 30 when President Obama signed into law the Omnibus Public Lands bill, with 202,000 acres of new Oregon Wilderness and 90 miles of Oregon Wild & Scenic Rivers.

Two huge victories closely followed: an administration commitment to toss out the dreaded Western Oregon Plan Revisions (known as WOPR) and to secure the Roadless Rule (which protects two million acres in Oregon).

We also scored a smaller, yet significant victory for the Bull Run Watershed in July. Your support and activism have been critical to each of these wins.

What about our vision for the next 35 years? We have good reason to be optimistic. We know much more about the key role of Pacific Northwest forests in storing the world’s carbon, staving off global warming, and stabilizing water supplies. It should be easier now to leverage recent gains and lock in permanent protections, codify the Roadless Rule into law, convert 4.8 million acres

of forest into Wilderness, and secure protection for mature and old-growth forests.

I can, and must, imagine a world in which we have turned the corner on global warming and are on a trajectory for a healthy planet; an Oregon where our children can fish for salmon because we saved them from extinction; a future where our grandchildren will be at home in the great outdoors.

You, our friends and supporters, are the heart and soul of Oregon Wild.

Your efforts and financial support have been the key to our collective success over 35 years. Today, I ask you to recommit to efforts to protect our wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy. You make the difference. Thank you!

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Long live the old growth!

Chandra LeGue

After so many years of bad news,

it’s hard to get used to the fact that within mere months of new leadership in the White House and in Congress, Oregonians were rewarded with new Wilderness for Copper Salmon, Mount Hood, Soda Mountain, and other special places.

On the heels of the biggest Wilderness expansion in Oregon in two decades, some whopping big news is out – a decree bringing the BLM’s destructive WOPR (that’s the Western Oregon Plan Revisions) to an end. That’s right, thanks to your help and support of Oregon Wild work, the WOPR is dead!

In July, after weighing the legal arguments Oregon Wild and others made against the plan, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put an end to the misguided attempt by the Bush administration and timber industry to drastically increase old-growth logging across 2.5 million acres of western Oregon BLM lands. Hooray!

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So…now what? Unfortunately, the demise of WOPR does not mean our remaining old forests are “out of the

woods.” It means that BLM lands default back to the management of the Northwest Forest Plan – which has its own flaws. The Interior Secretary made it clear that he wants to see some “ecologically sound” timber sales move forward to provide wood products and jobs in the short term.

Some of the initially proposed projects reflect the type of management we generally support – like thinning in young plantations – while others rubberstamp clear-cuts in healthy, mature forests. We need to ensure that the latter do not move forward.

Clearly, the debate over logging on public lands is not over just because WOPR has been dealt a blow. The public still needs assurance that our few remaining mature and old-growth forests – which store massive amounts of carbon and provide us with clean water, our best recreation, fish and wildlife habitat, and Oregon’s legendary beauty – will remain standing to provide these values for generations to come.

Oregon Wild has been working to secure permanent protections for

DOI Interior Secretary Ken Salazar canceled the WOPR in July, but his future plans for BLM forests are still unsettled

old-growth forests for decades. Over the past few years, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Peter DeFazio have floated proposals to protect older forests and promote restoration thinning across the state. While neither of their proposals represent exactly what Oregonians desire, we’re glad that we have elected leaders willing to step forward and work towards a common sense solution to management of our public forests.

To move ahead, the idea of logging in our oldest forests and last roadless wildlands needs to be tossed in the

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Spotted owl will get a new recovery plan

dustbin of history. Only then can a real solution – one that both conservationists and the logging industry can get behind – be implemented.

Grandmothers’ legacy

While the old-growth logging debate, especially with the WOPR, has long focused on the westside of the Cascades – where Douglas-fir, hemlock and cedar forests grow lush and tall – we cannot forget the forests of central and eastern Oregon.

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Given the invasion of the barred owl, climate change, and continued logging, the northern spotted owl is threatened now more than ever. The Bush administration inexplicably reduced critical habitat and adopted a dumbed-down recovery plan plagued by abuse of science and political interference. Oregon Wild and several other groups represented by Earthjustice filed a complaint asking that the plan be reexamined.

In July, the Obama administration agreed to withdraw the Spotted Owl Recovery Plan and revised critical habitat, which represents a big victory for conservation. Now, the Obama administration says it will redo the plan in the coming months. We hope to make the plan a lot better for the spotted owl and its old-growth forest home. - DH

Here, thick, yellow-barked Ponderosa pine, gnarled western larch, and shimmering aspen groves grow across a diverse landscape. Eastside forests have been affected by more than a century of human influence – intensive grazing, fire suppression, and industrial logging – and are in desperate need of restoration.

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K AT E G E S S E R T T h e t w i n G r a n d m o t h e r s b e h i n d K a t e G e s s e r t were scheduled to fall to the chainsaw in the WOPR.

“The Grandmothers” (pictured here) can breathe a little easier now that WOPR’s out of the picture.

Much of the Wolf Creek watershed southwest of Eugene – where small but vital patches of oldgrowth forests remain scattered among private land clear-cuts – would have changed from an old-growth reserve to a proposed logging site under WOPR. Since WOPR was first conceived, local resident and teacher Kate Gessert has been working to protect this old-growth grove as an education area. Kate takes her community college classes there to learn about Oregon’s rich natural history. Thanks in part to Kate’s work, her favorite grove is safe for now! -CL

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east of the Cascades. A great deal of groundwork for common ground has been laid in these dry forests.

Oregon Wild staff have been working in collaboration with the Forest Service and community stakeholders to help promote restoration projects and support local mills.

Now is the time to move forward towards the restoration that will make our forests healthier, the protections that will ensure our ancient forest

legacy, and the restoration economy that will keep communities working.

Only by permanently protecting our mature and old-growth forests can we start this work in earnest.

Take Action!

Learn more about Oregon’s diverse forests online at www.oregonwild. org/oregon_forests

SEAN STEVENS AL AN COSSIT T

Extreme lobby group dealt blow The Lane County Board of Commissioners has decided to stop funding (for now) the Association of O&C Counties (AOCC) – a lobbying group that has pushed for more logging of old growth, more logging near streams, and more logging of wildlife habitat. Over the years, Lane County has given this extremist group over $700,000.

There is no reason Lane County or any other county should continue funding a secretive group that appears to work for the logging industry instead of the public interest. Oregon Wild staff has been appointed to a task force created

by Lane County to develop criteria to help the county decide whether to spend scarce public money on activist groups like the AOCC. You can be sure we’ll advocate for protecting our public forests for the water quality, carbon storage, wildlife habitat, and high quality of life they provide.

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Obama’s Oregon environmental scorecard In 2008, then-candidate Obama campaigned for President on the theme of change. For Oregon conservationists, his inauguration was met with optimism. How has the reality matched up with the campaign promises?

THE GOOD March 3

Revoked a Bush initiative to weaken scientific review of federal projects that could harm endangered species

May 6

Continued the Bush initiative to strip endangered species protection from gray wolves in the West

March 30

Signed Omnibus Public Lands Management Act,protecting over 200,000 acres of pristine Wilderness in Oregon (including 125,000 acres around Mount Hood)

May 8

Continued Bush policy ignoring impacts of global warming on threatened species

May 28

Issued a directive requiring the Forest Service to secure approval from the Secretary of Agriculture before logging in roadless areas

July 16

Allowed logging of 381 acres of old-growth forest in a pristine roadless area in Alaska, setting a dangerous national precedent

June 26

Helped navigate global warming legislation through the House of Representatives

August

July 16

Axed the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR), taking one hundred thousand acres of old-growth forest off the chopping block

Obama’s position on the Bush-backed Klamath water settlement, which weakens protection for wildlife refuges and river flows, remains unclear as negotiations drag on

August 14

Announced they will fight back against harmful Wyoming court ruling which struck down Roadless Rule

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THE BAD

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Celebrating 35 years Oregon Wild was officially incorporated on

November 7, 1974. We’ve come a long way in our 35 years. Back in the 70s, the offices were smaller and the hair was bigger. We’ve had an amazingly talented and passionate roster of staff, board, and volunteers—some of whom are still making Oregon Wild the most effective conservation group in the state to this day. Thanks to all who have made 35 years of wildlands protection possible.

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1970s L incoln Stre et Off ice, Eugene

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STEPHANIE AMES 2000 Steens

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1980s Staff at Lincoln Street Off ice

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1990s Regna Merritt 1990s Andy Kerr is wanted A A RO N B ROW N 198 4 Wal do Lake 1986 Tim Lillebo or is that Robert Redford?

2008 Portland Staff eaten by the bioswale

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Our only National Park on the line Rob Klavins

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F R A N C I S E AT H E R I N G T O N D - B u g

rater Lake is at the top of many lists – Earth’s natural wonders, Oregon’s special places, and symbols of our commitment to conservation.

Sadly, it also tops our list of Oregon’s most endangered places. Visitors to Oregon’s crown jewel could soon be treated to a cacophony of chainsaws and logging trucks on the ground and helicopters in the sky.

The area is threatened by D-Bug, a timber sale as ugly as its name. The sale includes more roadless logging and road-building than occurred across the entire country during the Bush years. The project area snakes north from the boundary of Oregon’s only National Park, converts miles of hiking trails into logging roads, and includes thousands of acres of commercial logging in roadless areas, recreation areas, and critical habitat for threatened and endangered species – all at taxpayer expense.

This is all happening while the Park Service considers an application by a Bend company to allow helicopter overflights of the park.

inset) was “the opportunity for an actionable solution.” In this case, we have several. Oregon Wild and the Park Service have been proposing Wilderness protections in the area for decades.

We also have an interim solution in the form of the Roadless Rule.

Though the Rule currently covers much of the land threatened by D-Bug, it contains loopholes. Furthermore, as an administrative rule, it is subject to the whim of changing administrations. It needs to be strengthened and made permanent.

People don’t come to Crater Lake, or Oregon, to hike the clear-cuts or listen to helicopters. As our report points out, endangered places don’t have to stay that way. A number of tools exist to solve these problems; the Roadless Rule, Wilderness protection, and – with your support – the continued vigilance of Oregon Wild.

A primary criterion for inclusion in our Endangered Places report (see Fall 2009 Volume 36, Number 2

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Where’s the threat?

Oregon’s only National Park is threatened, but it isn’t the only spot in the state where our natural legacy is on the line. This summer, we toured the state and identified ten at-risk landscapes. Find out more about each threatened locale in our 10 Most Endangered Places report. See the full report online at: www.oregonwild.org/10most

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Fall means fungi!

SEAN STEVENS Jim Fodelmesi delivers a message standing in the newly designated Wilderness at Big Bottom.

Only the markers remain Sean Stevens

Thanks to everyone who joined us on an Oregon Wild Summer outing this year. Getting out and enjoying our newly protected Wilderness (and some places we hope to safeguard in the near future) was a great joy. Here’s the story of one of the places we ventured to this summer: Big Bottom.

In the 1980s a little known stretch of

roadless forest along the Clackamas River in the Mount Hood National Forest was doing what it had always done—filtering cool water into the

Clackamas, sheltering elk and northern spotted owls, and inspiring awe in the occasional hiker. Then, the Forest Service proposed to log the area known as Big Bottom.

At the time, Oregon Wild was working non-stop to protect the northern spotted owl from extinction and save the last of our old-growth.

Ultimately, a legal challenge halted the Big Bottom sale and a larger logging binge that had gone unabated in Oregon for decades.

In July, Oregon Wild led a group of hikers to Big Bottom. As we walked down the hill toward some of the largest trees in the state, we crossed into newly designated Wilderness.

Twenty years after it was threatened by logging, the cathedral forests of Big Bottom are now protected forever.

You can still see blue markers on trees that outlined the borders of the timber sale. Today, the markers serve as a reminder that dedication from active citizens can turn flawed ideas into a natural legacy we can all be proud of.

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S U E PA R S O N S

BILL ERICKSON

Yo u ’ l l f i n d m u s h r o o m s b o t h b i g a n d s m a l l o n a h u n t w i t h We n d e l l Wo o d.

The rains are coming but do not despair. With the wet comes the wonder of mushrooms in the forest. Oregon Wild Naturalist Wendell Wood is your guide to the finer details of fungi as part of our fall hike series. We’ll also be exploring some of our favorite places during the time of year when the crowds are fewer and the chance for solitude in the outdoors is greater. Sign up for hikes at: http://www.oregonwild.org/about/

hikes_events Take Action!

See more photos from Oregon Wild Summer 2009 (look for the link in the top right of our homepage at www.oregonwild.org).

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Klamath Marsh — a Southern Oregon jewel Wendell Wood

WEN DELL WOOD Oregon Wild volunteers, knee deep in bitterbrush, pull out harmful barbed wire fencing in Klamath Marsh

Located 15 miles east of Crater Lake National Park, the 40,885 acre Klamath Marsh National Wildlife is one of the largest remaining freshwater marshes in the Pacific Northwest.

The emergent wocus (yellow pond lily) and bulrush marshes, sedge meadows, and riparian habitat are encircled here by stately pine forests – supporting over 250 species of wildlife, including spotted frogs, yellow rails, sandhill cranes, great grey owls, bald eagles, and Rocky Mountain elk. The recently rediscovered Miller Lake Lamprey is believed to occur here, as well as a population of Klamath largescale sucker – identified as “genetically unique” in this locale. A variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, and even pronghorn can also be seen.

Since 1989, when the refuge was doubled in size, Oregon Wild has included the Klamath Marsh as a major part of our conservation advocacy in the Klamath Basin. This advocacy has involved our usual watchdog role as we’ve kept an eye on refuge management activities to ensure the protection of important wildlife. In addition, along with Fall 2009 Volume 36, Number 2

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dedicated volunteers, we’ve donated many hundreds of hours in organizing multiple restoration projects. In this work, we’ve pulled miles of barbed wire fence and planted hundreds of willows.

kayak paddle at Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge (another outstanding Klamath Basin NWR by Upper Klamath Lake to the south).

In July the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge released a draft of its We’ve also enjoyed the scenery of first ever Comprehensive Conservathe marsh, leading natural history, tion Plan, a document that will guide birding, and canoeing trips. These the future management of the refuge. outings and others have helped The refuge’s “Preferred Alternative B” Oregon Wild develop a plant to Optimize Habitat Restoration and collection for refuge managers with Enhance Visitor Services states: a comprehensive list totaling 370 “Opportunities for all non-consumpplant species. tive priority public uses would be expanded, and hunting and fishing Most recently, this last Fourth of July programs would be considered for weekend, sixteen Oregon Wild expansion after river restoration is volunteers spent a day pulling yet completed.” Thanks go to the 140 another mile of fence along the Oregon Wild members and supportrefuge’s boundary with the Silver ers that sent in scoping comments in Lake Highway. The next day we March 2007 to help make the plan as relaxed and enjoyed a canoe and strong as possible.

WENDELL WOOD After the hard work the group enjoys some leisure time on the beautiful Upper Klamath NWR.

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More wild on the way Erik Fernandez

Hot on the heels of recent conser-

vation victories that protected 202,000 acres of Wilderness in Oregon, Congress is back at it again with several new proposals. The highlight of the new batch is the mythical Devil’s Staircase Wilderness, one of the only intact stands of old-growth forest left in Oregon’s Coast Range. We commend Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, and Representative Peter DeFazio for introducing legislation that would give the area the Wilderness stamp – the gold standard for public lands protection.

Efforts to protect Oregon’s most famous white water rafting river are also moving forward. Senator Merkley has stepped up in a major way,

CHANDRA LEGUE Hikers catch some sun along Wasson Creek in the proposed Devil’s Staircase Wilderness

supporting full Wilderness protection for the Wild Rogue River.

Oregon Wild is working to encourage Senator Wyden and Rep. DeFazio to join their junior colleague in the Wilderness cause. The two have already introduced legislation to protect 143 miles of Wild & Scenic Rivers that feed the Rogue.

Oregon’s newest Congressman, Kurt Schrader, has gotten off to a good start with plans to protect 21 miles of the Molalla River as Wild & Scenic. His proposal would safeguard clean drinking water for both Molalla and Canby, as well as support runs of native steelhead. In southern Oregon, legislation was also introduced in the House and Senate to expand the

Senator Jeff Merkley supports Wilderness designation for the Wild Rogue.

Oregon Caves National Monument from 480 acres to over 4,000 acres.

Take Action!

Write to Senator Merkley today thanking him for his leadership in pursuing Wilderness protection for the Wild Rogue.

Head to http://www.oregonwild.org/ about/take_action.

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35 more years, with your help Allison Oseth

This autumn, Oregon Wild

celebrates 35 years of protecting the things that make our state a special place to live, work, and play. Over the course of our history, we’ve established a unique role as the only group working across the entire state to safeguard our wild places. We have maintained the deep grassroots that have always been the foundation of our advocacy while becoming an increasingly respected voice nationally.

As Oregon’s oldest and largest conservation group, we have enjoyed

Generous support from donors allowed us to move over the years from humble quarters in Eugene to a spacious, beautifully landscaped office in 1999.

Donor list

Businesses and foundations that donated between 4/24/09 and 9/7/09 are listed below in gratitude of their generosity. Current members giving at the Public Lands level or above are listed as a benefit of membership (list as of 8/21/09). Oregon Wild greatly appreciates the support of all of our donors. *denotes an Oregon Wild board or staff member

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