Cascadia Wildlands

06/04/2026

☀️ Summer is just around the corner! We hope to see you at these upcoming events:  
 
 
🏕️ Field Checking Basecamp, June 18-22.  Join us at Basecamp to skill up in forest defense! We’ll be camping in an off-grid, dispersed camping spot in the Blue and Gold timber sale west of Yoncalla, OR. Register for Basecamp 2026 by June 12. Link in bio. 

🏳️‍🌈 Eugene Pride, June 27, 11:00 am-7:00 pm. Come celebrate Pride Month with us in Eugene! Link in bio for more festival info. Attendance is free.  

🧚‍♂️ Oregon Country Fair, July 10-12. Don’t miss this magical event near Veneta, Oregon! Stop by our outreach booth on Strawberry Lane for free Cascadia critter face painting. Link in bio for more info and tickets.  

🍷 Hinman Vineyard (formally Silvan Ridge) Concert Event, July 17, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Enjoy a glass of local wine, boogie to a live band, and support Cascadia Wildlands. Link in bio for more info. 

🌲 Cascadia Action Team (WildCAT) Meeting, Wednesday, August 12, 6:00-7:30 pm. The Cascadia Action Team, or WildCAT, is our volunteer squad supporting conservation campaigns through education, outreach, advocacy, and hands-on action. Visit the link in bio for the Zoom Registration. 
The meeting will be held at the wheelchair-accessible Cascadia Wildlands office at 120 Shelton McMurphey Blvd. Suite #250, and via Zoom. 

🎉 Warner Creek 30th Anniversary Victory Celebration, August 24 at the WOW Hall in Eugene. Join us at the WOW Hall for an evening of live music with Peter Wilde and Casey Neill, storytelling, archival exhibits, and conversation connecting the legacy of Warner Creek to today’s forest, wildfire, and climate justice struggles. More info coming soon.

05/29/2026

🚨✨DOUBLE ✨YOUR IMPACT!

During the month of May, long-time business partner Patagonia will match your gift to Cascadia Wildlands until we raise $10,000. Your $50 becomes $100, $250 becomes $500...

Your support will allow us to confront the Trump administration’s attacks on the popular Roadless Rule, Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Northwest Forest Plan. These policies have safeguarded treasured wildlands and critical salmon and wildlife habitat in our region for decades. 🐟🦉

With your help today, we will make sure Cascadia’s ecosystem protections aren’t stripped away.

And when you sign up to make a monthly gift of at least $15/month in May, we will send you a Cascadia Wildlands “forests over fascists” hat. Becoming a monthly donor is the best way to help sustain our work to keep it wild in Cascadia! 🌲🧢

Go to this link to make a gift today: https://cascwild.org/ways-to-give/double-your-impact/ 🫶

05/28/2026

🚨Join us next Wednesday, June 3, for our monthly WildCAT meeting from 6:00–7:30 p.m. Please note there has been a slight change to our normal meeting schedule for the next two months. We’ll be meeting one week earlier than normal in June, and there will be no meeting in July.🚨

The Cascadia Action Team, or WildCAT 🐾, is Cascadia Wildlands’ squad of volunteers who support ongoing conservation campaigns through education, outreach, advocacy, and hands-on action. These monthly meetings offer an opportunity to get connected with like-minded advocates! 💚

If you are joining in person, please plan to arrive before 6:00 pm so that we can start on time, and please do not come if you are feeling sick. RSVPs for attendees are appreciated! And please do not come if you are feeling sick. Visit the link in bio for the Zoom Registration and RSVP form.

📍 The meeting will be held at the wheelchair-accessible Cascadia Wildlands office at 120 Shelton McMurphey Blvd. Suite #250, and via Zoom.

05/27/2026

People tend to want to protect what they grew up loving.

That’s why Cascadia Wildlands is fighting to protect our forests, rivers, and wildlife, not just for today, but for generations to come. 🌲 🦉🦎

Like David Attenborough said, “If children don’t grow up knowing about nature and appreciating it, they will not understand it. And if they don’t understand it, they won’t protect it.” And judging by the Trump administration’s attacks on our public lands and waterways it’s clear they did not spend enough time in the woods as kids. 🫢

🚨 During the month of May, long-time business partner will match your gift to Cascadia Wildlands until we raise $10,000. Your $50 becomes $100, $250 becomes $500… Help us unlock the match!  

With your support today, we will make sure Cascadia’s ecosystem protections aren’t stripped away. 🙅

And when you sign up to make a monthly gift of at least $15/month in May, we will send you a Cascadia Wildlands “forests over fascists” hat. 🧢 Becoming a monthly donor is the best way to help sustain our work to keep it wild in Cascadia! Visit our link in bio to make a gift today! 💚

05/22/2026

On this , we’re celebrating the incredible biodiversity found in Cascadia’s forest ecosystems. 🌲🐾 

From towering old-growth trees and standing snags to fallen logs, cold pristine rivers, and lush mossy understories, these forests provide the complex habitat that countless species depend on. Species like northern spotted owls, black bears, tailed frogs, Chinook salmon, red tree voles, marbled murrelets, rough-skinned newts, and much more. 

As attacks on public lands and forests ramp up, it’s more important than ever to recognize how irreplaceable and ✨magnificent✨ these ecosystems truly are. Once these forests are lost, the biodiversity they support can take centuries to recover, if they recover at all. We will continue fighting to protect these forests and the rich biodiversity that depends on them for generations to come. 💚

05/21/2026

Some people may see ALL wildfire as unnatural, bad and catastrophic. In reality, fire has long been a dynamic and necessary part of healthy western forest ecosystems, helping sustain biodiversity alongside the intentional stewardship of Indigenous communities. 

But more than a century of wildfire suppression, industrial forestry, unchecked development, and climate change has disrupted the balance. As extreme, weather-driven fires become more frequent and destructive, fear has come to dominate public discourse and policy. 

This fear-driven narrative is also reflected in land management and policy conversations that falsely frames wildfire primarily as a vegetation problem, which can only be solved through logging.
This ignores the critical ecological role wildfire plays in forests and diverts attention from the urgent need to protect homes and communities through effective solutions - like home hardening, creating defensible space around homes, thoughtful land-use planning, and community preparedness. 🙌

Read more about the role of fire in forest health in the PNWFCA’s Wildfire Messaging Guide — a collaborative resource that aims to demystify how we talk about fire Link in our bio! 🔗

Stay tuned for more from the Messaging Guide soon :)

🎨 Illustrations by Seamus Heffernan

05/18/2026

During the month of May, long-time business partner Patagonia will match your gift to Cascadia Wildlands until we raise $10,000. Your $50 becomes $100, $250 becomes $500...  💚

Your support will allow us to confront the Trump administration’s attacks on the popular Roadless Rule, Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Northwest Forest Plan. These policies have safeguarded treasured wildlands and critical salmon and wildlife habitat in our region for decades. 🐟🌲

With your help we will make sure Cascadia’s ecosystem protections aren’t stripped away. 🚫💪

And when you sign up to make a monthly gift of at least $15/month in May, we will send you a Cascadia Wildlands “forests over fascists” hat. Becoming a monthly donor is the best way to help sustain our work to keep it wild in Cascadia! 🐾💚

05/15/2026

Protecting endangered species isn’t just for one day, it’s something we fight for every day. 💚

On this Endangered Species Day, we are happy to announce that late yesterday the US District Court ruled the 3,200-acre Blue and Gold timber sale on Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-administered land west of Yoncalla violated a suite of bedrock environmental laws and halted any further logging.

Central to the claims in the case were declarations by former federal biologists stating that the BLM intentionally misrepresented the age of the forests to facilitate the illegal logging of this old-growth forest. Additionally, documentation efforts in the field by plaintiff organizations and key volunteers confirmed that BLM planned to log forests much older than what it disclosed.

This news marks a major win not only for Oregon’s old-growth forests and endangered species, like the marbled murrelet and northern spotted owl, but also for the conservation organizations that have vociferously opposed this stinker for more than six years.

Thank you to everyone that helped make this victory possible! Conservation organizations included Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds, who were represented by attorneys from Crag Law Center, Cascadia Wildlands, and Oregon Wild.

Visit the link in our bio for the full press release.

Photo of a Blue and Gold timber sale unit by

05/15/2026

05/12/2026

🚨In response to illegal logging of old-growth forest recently documented in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Blue and Gold timber sale located in the Oregon Coast Range, conservation organizations Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds through the legal prowess of Crag Law Center filed a Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction to stop any further cutting. Volunteers documented the logging of old-growth trees, some of which are estimated to be 250-years old and are required to be protected by the BLM’s own rules, while camping near the contested area in the lower Umpqua River watershed this past weekend.

These old-growth forests supply clean drinking water, offer treasured recreation opportunities, store incomparable amounts of carbon to help mitigate climate change, and provide critical habitat for threatened and endangered wildlife. The logging recently documented at the Blue and Gold timber sale included old-growth trees up to 67 inches in diameter — a clear violation of law.

Visit this link: https://bit.ly/BGIllegalLogging for the full press release.