Northwest Forest Plan, Survey & Manage Standard: Rare Species Protected

Jun 27, 2017 | Wildlands

Northwest Forest Plan, Survey & Manage Standard: Rare Species Protected WELC has fought relentlessly to defend the critical ‘survey and manage’ provision of the Northwest Forest Plan since the plan was first adopted in 1994. The provision requires...

Defending Science-Based Forest Management in Oregon

Mar 25, 2017 | Wildlands

Defending Science-Based Forest Management in Oregon The Western Oregon Plan Revisions, known by the acronym WOPR and pronounced “whopper,” has been controversial since 2003, when the second Bush administration settled a long dormant timber industry lawsuit with the...

Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion

Feb 27, 2017 | Wildlands

Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion President Clinton designated the Klamath-Siskiyou National Monument in 2000. It is the first and only national monument specifically established to protect biological diversity. But ecologists agreed after the...

Northwest Forest Plan science synthesis review begins

Nov 10, 2016 | News Release

Will help inform forest management efforts in Pacific Northwest Location: Portland, Ore. Today, the U.S. Forest Service released for public and heightened peer review its anticipated science synthesis, which will inform the need to revise the renowned Northwest Forest...

VICTORY! Protecting Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining

Nov 3, 2016 | Wildlands

VICTORY! Protecting the Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining The Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers region is home to the highest concentration of designated Wild Rivers in the contiguous U.S., but that didn’t stop a nickel mining company from proposing a 100,000-acre strip...

Promoting Natural Fire Recovery in California’s Klamath National Forest

Mar 3, 2016 | Wildlands

Promoting Natural Fire Recovery in California’s Klamath National Forest The best available science tells us that to bounce back from fires, forests must retain the nutrients and biomass contained in trees that did not survive. Despite this, the U.S. Forest...

Salmon River Complex Post-Fire Salvage Project

Sep 10, 2014 | Wildlands

2014-8-5.SalmonSalvageAgreementLtr.Sexton.pdf The Salmon River is one of the most remote and beautiful areas in the northern California/southern Oregon’s Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. The 751-mile watershed lies entirely within the Klamath National Forest. Nearly...

National Forest Management Act Planning Rule Federal Advisory Committee

Feb 14, 2014 | Wildlands

National Forest Management Act Planning Rule Federal Advisory Committee The National Forest Management Act directs management on all 155 national forests that span 193 million public forestland acres across the country. As such, the importance of getting this law...

Forest Collaborative: Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Feb 14, 2014 | Wildlands

Forest Collaborative: Wallowa-Whitman National Forest On the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in northeast Oregon, the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Collaborative has begun to address complex forest restoration needs, while balancing environmental protection of this...

Victory! National Forest Management Act: Protecting Our Public Forests

Sep 27, 2012 | Wildlands

VICTORY! National Forest Management Act: Protecting Our Public Forests For over a decade, WELC has led the fight to preserve our national forests by defending the integrity of the regulations that dictate how they will be managed. In the mid-1970s, Congress became...