Upcoming Events and actions
Public Lands, Public Voices. Reclaiming Roadless Forests Town Hall // Bend
Learn about the national threat to nearly 60 million acres of our wild, roadless public lands—and take action to defend them.
25 years ago, the US Forest Service held more than 600 public meetings during the process to create the Roadless Rule, one of the most important conservation measures in history—and it could soon be repealed. The Forest Service’s current process to repeal may not include a single public meeting—so our community is hosting our own. Join us to speak up for your national forests.
Join Central Oregon LandWatch, Great Old Broads for Wilderness, National Parks Conservation Association, Native Fish Society, Oregon Wild, Protect Our Winters, Sierra Club Oregon Chapter and other roadless user groups at OSU-Cascades' Edward J. Ray Hall Atrium on Monday, April 6 to learn and celebrate how roadless protections support diverse shared values and essential conservation outcomes. Most importantly, we'll be taking collective action to stop this latest attack on our public lands.
Space is limited, register today.
Public Lands, Public Voices: Reclaiming Roadless Forests Town Hall // Portland
For nearly 25 years, the Roadless Rule has protected 58.5 million acres of America's last wild forests—places that provide clean drinking water to 60 million Americans, harbor threatened wildlife, and offer unparalleled recreation opportunities. This bedrock conservation policy, enacted in 2001 after the most extensive public process in federal history (600 public meetings and 1.6 million comments), has proven its worth: protecting watersheds, storing carbon, and maintaining the backcountry character that defines the American West. Now, the administration has announced its intent to rescind this successful rule entirely. Despite generating over 600,000 public comments in opposition—with 99% supporting the rule's retention—the Forest Service appears unlikely to hold public meetings during this critical decision process. This represents a fundamental breakdown in democratic participation around the future of our public lands. We refuse to let these voices go unheard.
Register here!
Public Lands, Public Voices: A night of trivia, inspiration, and action for roadless forests // Eugene
Speak up for your roadless public lands
25 years ago, the US Forest Service held more than 600 public meetings during the process to create the Roadless Rule, one of the most important conservation measures in history—and it could soon be repealed.
The Trump Administration’s current process to repeal the rule does not include a single public meeting—so our community is hosting our own.
Join Oregon Wild, Cascadia Wildlands, FUSEE, 350 Eugene, and other groups at Gratitude Brewing on Tuesday, April 14 to learn and celebrate how roadless protections support diverse shared values and essential conservation outcomes. Most importantly, we’ll be taking collective action to stop this latest attack on our public lands.
This event will include stations for learning about and taking action for roadless forests, a program (beginning at 5:30pm) featuring several voices supporting roadless area protections, and TRIVIA (beginning at 6:00pm)! Food and beverage is available for purchase.
Shared Wild Film Series Screening // Hood River
Join Friends of the Columbia Gorge for a special screening of the Shared Wild Series, a short film series directed by Friends’ Digital Content Producer Monique Trevett that celebrates community, conservation, and recreation in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area.
This series celebrates the joy of outdoor recreation while exploring how our experiences shape conservation, belonging, access, and stewardship. Across the Gorge, recreation can be a powerful entry point—not just to the landscape itself, but to a community of people of all ages. With Shared Wild, we’re sharing stories of community members who are making a direct impact by breaking down barriers to recreation throughout the Columbia Gorge.
Join us from 6 to 8 PM for an in-person screening of all six films in the series. The screening begins at 6:45 PM. After the first three films, we will take a short intermission featuring a panel conversation with people featured in the films. Sign up HERE.
Questions? Contact the producer of the series, Monique, at Monique@gorgefriends.org.
Portland Community Hearing: Protect the Arctic Refuge
Join Alaska Wilderness League and co-host Love is King to stand in solidarity with the Gwich’in Nation, speak directly to oil companies, and put your opposition to drilling on record. The evening includes remarks from the Gwich’in Steering Committee and an open floor for community testimony. You do not have to speak to attend.
RSVP here!
Seattle Community Hearing: Protect the Arctic Refuge
Join Alaska Wilderness League and co-host Love is King to stand in solidarity with the Gwich’in Nation, speak directly to oil companies, and put your opposition to drilling on record. The evening includes remarks from the Gwich’in Steering Committee and an open floor for community testimony. You do not have to speak to attend.
RSVP here!
Comment Period — BLM Revising the Resource Management Plan
The RMP guides management for 2.5 million acres of BLM lands in Western Oregon, and the Trump Admin want to change it to maximize timber production at the expense of all other forest values. There's currently an open public comment period until March 23rd; you can read more about the RMP revision & submit comments here.
Alliance members have put together a Grassroots Organizing Toolkit, which includes sample comment language, background, action ideas, etc. It is a living a breathing document that will continue to be updated even after the comment period ends.
Alliance members have also created a simple petition that people can share far and wide (there are downloadable/printable signer sheets and a cover page in the toolkit).
If you want to plug in & contribute to organizing efforts on this campaign, contact madeline@cascwild.org. Ideas and energy welcome!
PIELC Party!
Join the PNWFCA for a benefit party, including live music, games, and more!
$15-30 suggested donation.
Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC)
Attend the 44th annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, OR from March 12th-15th! This year’s conference will feature panels, workshops, and events surrounding the theme Fight Back: Voices for Good.
Alliance members are featured on a variety of panels. Come check out their incredible work!
International Stop OREO Day of Action
From Rainforest Action Network.
Did you know that “milk’s favorite cookie” might be forest's worst nightmare? Oreo, and other snacks made by Mondelez use ingredients tied to forest and peatland destruction. But this isn’t just about forests and snacks, it’s about Indigenous and local community land rights, protections for forest defenders, and climate justice! On March 6th, “National Oreo Day” we are declaring International STOP Oreo Day of Action to disrupt the status quo, where huge marketing budgets hide the calls for justice and accountability. We are calling on supporters and allies around the world to join us to Stop Oreo.
We have a variety of ways to take action from online action from the comfort of your home to calls and letter writing, to showing up to your local grocery to call out Oreo. Check out our digital ally action kit or our in-person action PDF.
Julian Brave Noisecat presents: "Coyote Steals the Salmon"
On tour promoting his book, "We Survived the Night," Noisecat will detail how his people have endured innumerable erasures, tortures and injustices, but — like their oldest ancestor, Coyote — they're still here.
Sponsored by Community Rights Lane County and the UO Native American & Indigenous Studies Dept.
Hakiym Letter Writing Event
Join Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE) and the Willamette Valley Abolition Project for this free event! Write letters to Hakiym, a wrongfully incarcerated black firefighter who was charged for defending himself from a racist attack by a coworker.
University of Oregon Increases Fossil Fuel Use By Over Fifty Percent — TAKE ACTION!
The gas boilers at the University of Oregon were already the largest source of fossil fuel emissions in all of Eugene.... and they just increased those emissions by 65%! Sign this petition or register for public comment on March 17th to electrify the campus heating system and stop the expansion of fossil fuels on campus! Read more about the boilers here.
US Forest Service proposed changes to pre-decisional objection periods — Take Action!
The USFS is accepting public comments on a proposal to curtail pre-decisional objections to actions planned on National Forests. This may sound like a wonky bureaucratic detail, but it has serious implications for the public and public lands. Pre-decisional objections allow folks to challenge a proposed Forest Service action like a timber sale before a final decision is made. Those objections then go to a higher-ranking Forest Service official who facilitates a 'resolution meeting' with Forest Service staff and the objector(s) to see if the parties can resolve the objections without needing to litigate. Across the region, people have used this process to improve bad projects, like by getting the Forest Service to remove certain areas from the proposed timber sales. While not perfect, it was an important tool in the public's toolbox and resulted in improved projects on public lands.
The Forest Service just proposed new rules that would limit the type of project that can be objected to, dramatically shortens the period in which to object - just 10 days for a project analyzed in an Environmental Assessments and 20 days for projects analyzed with an Environmental Impact Statements. It also limits public notice, limits the page length of the objection, and eliminates both the objection resolution meeting, and review by a higher-ranking Forest Service official.
This is yet another example of this Administration trying to re-write the rules & processes the public has successfully used to protect PNW forests, and an attempt to cut the public out of public lands management that will especially impact grassroots people and organizations with limited time and capacity. Here is an action toolkit with information on how & where to submit public comments demanding the Forest Service withdraw this proposal, including talking points and template action alerts you can use to help spread the word. Comments are due by March 9th.
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The admin’s goal for revising the plans is clear: maximize timber production at the expense of all other forest values. In other words, as the twin climate and biodiversity crises rage on, the Trump admin wants to catapult back to the days of clearcutting public forests and sacrificing species’ survival, habitat protections, and drinking water sources to achieve unsustainable logging levels. Read the full report by Cascadia Wildlands and submit your public comment!
Join in the formation of a pop-up working group to organize around this issue on March 2nd at 4pm. Register for the (virtual) meeting here.
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Parallel campaigns in Oregon and Washington are pushing state legislation to create ‘climate superfund’ programs, which would require the largest fossil fuel polluters to pay their fair share for the climate damages they have caused. Easy first step action: sign a petition in support (Oregon petition here, WA petition here).
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Oak Flat is a sacred site in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest currently threatened by one of the largest mine proposals in North America. Learn more about Oak Flat & its significance to the Apache people here. Take action to support the Save Oak Flat from Foreign Mining Bill here. Contact apache.stronghold@gmail.com for more info.