Cascadia Wildlands

09/04/2026

Happy National Wildlife Day!🦌🐺🐻

Did you know that National Wildlife Day is celebrated twice a year, on the 22nd of February and the 4th of September? For us at Cascadia Wildlands though, protecting and appreciating wildlife is part of our every day.💚

The Roadless Rule protects 45 million acres of pristine and unroaded wildlife habitat from logging, road building, and destructive extractive practices. You can help protect these forests by submitting a unique comment and signing our petition opposing the Trump administration’s plan to rescind the Roadless Rule by September 21st. 

Join us in taking action for wildlife today. Defend the Roadless Rule!

Comment “Defend the Roadless Rule” and we will send you a DM with all the info you need. Or go to https://bit.ly/CW-Roadless and submit your comment at http://regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869

09/04/2026

A group of protesters gathered outside the Oregon State University forestry summit on Wednesday to protest the potential removal of the roadless rule.

09/03/2026

🚨 Forest advocates and community members sent U.S. Forest Service Chief Schultz a clear message: Protect the Roadless Rule!

Community members gathered to protest Chief Schultz’s appearance at a closed-door Oregon State University “Science, Stewardship, and Sustainable Forests Resource and Development Summit” amidst the agency’s slew of attacks on public lands.
Despite overwhelming public opposition, the Trump admin is moving forward repealing the overwhelmingly popular Roadless Rule. Removing the Roadless Rule’s protections threatens nearly 45 millions acres of undeveloped public backcountry forestland, approximately one third of the entire national forest system. In Oregon alone, eliminating the Roadless Rule would threaten roughly 2 million acres.

And despite evidence that a vast majority of wildfires are human caused, and that wildfires are 4x more likely to start within 50m of a road compared to roadless areas, Chief Schultz is claiming repealing the rule is about wildfire risk reduction. We call BS.
Roadless forests protect drinking water sources for millions, wildlife habitat, clean air, recreation, and climate mitigation. Submit your unique comment and sign our petition by September 21st! Tell Chief Schutz: Keep the Roadless Rule and keep public lands public!

Comment “Defend the Roadless Rule” and we will send you a DM with all the info you need. Or go to https://bit.ly/CW-Roadless and submit your comment at http://regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869

To read the full press release and coverage on the protest by KLCC visit the link in bio.

08/31/2026

Join us this Thursday, September 3rd, from 4:00–5:00pm for our Field Checking Mapping Skills Webinar led by Field and Organizing Manager Madeline Cowen!

We’ll cover how to find online maps of areas we’ll be field checking, download and upload maps, ways we utilize tree height data (LiDAR), and more. If you’re new to field checking, need a refresher, or are new to the FO Maps app (we recently changed from Avenza), this webinar is for you!

Can’t make it? No worries, it will be recorded and available to watch later, though Thursday you’ll be able to ask questions in real time.

Register in the link in our bio or at bit.ly/CWMapWebinar

08/26/2026

08/26/2026

Sign the petition and submit a unique public comment here: bit.ly/CW-Roadless

08/24/2026

🚨What does rescinding the Roadless Rule mean for recreation? By the numbers.

The Roadless Rule protects:

17,936 total miles of non-motorized trails
9,298 miles of hiking trails
7,947 miles of mountain biking trails
556 river miles for paddling
5,567 rock climbing routes
691 miles of backcountry ski trails

We recreate in these backcountry areas precisely because they LACK roads. Punching roads would mean more noise, more fragmented landscapes, more wildfire ignitions, more invasive species and permanent scars on places meant to feel wild and remote. Roads don’t just change the view, they change the experience.

The Roadless Rule protects what makes these places so special: quiet, connection, remoteness, and a landscape that still feels intact and untouched. So let’s keep these last wild places wild!

Here’s what you can do: (comment “Defend the Roadless Rule” and we will DM you the links)

👉 Submit a unique comment opposing the withdrawal of the rule via the link in bio or at http://regulations.gov/commenton/FS-2025-0001-223869, and
👉 Sign the petition via the link in our bio or at http://bit.ly/CW-Roadless, and
👉 Contact your Representative and Senators and ask them to defend the Roadless Rule, and
👉 Share this post and ask your friends and family to all do the same!
👉 Follow the orgs on this post to stay updated.
👉 Keep standing up for public lands!

📸 credits: HikeOregon, Leslie Kehmeier, Zachary Collier & Northwest Rafting Company, and Jonas Paulsson

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08/20/2026

🚨We need YOU to SPEAK UP!

Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open up nearly 45 million acres of national forest to industrial development. More roads would mean more invasive species, increased wildfire risk, fragmented wildlife habitat, degraded drinking water sources, and much more.

Join us in defending these wild places and speak up for the Roadless Rule by September 21st!

Here’s what you can do:

👉 Submit a unique comment opposing withdrawal of the rule via this link: https://cascwild.org/actions/defend-roadless-forests/
👉 Sign the petition via the link in our bio!
👉 Contact your Representative and Senators and ask them to defend the Roadless Rule.
👉 Share this post and ask your friends and family to all do the same!
👉 Follow the orgs on this post to stay updated.
👉 Keep standing up for public lands!

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08/20/2026

🚨Comment “Defend the Roadless Rule” and we will DM you a link to take action! Or go to this link: https://cascwild.org/actions/defend-roadless-forests/

Despite overwhelming public opposition, the Trump administration is ramming through its plan to bulldoze the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (“Roadless Rule”), the bedrock conservation policy that protects nearly two million acres of Oregon’s public forests and nearly 45 million acres nationwide from logging, road building, and destructive extractive practices. Punching roads through these last remaining older forests and paving the way for more logging would fragment habitat, spread invasive species, increase fire risk, impede recreation, and wreak havoc on the drinking water sources for millions. Though the Trump admin claims that the Roadless Rule rollback is about addressing wildfire, we know that humans cause the vast majority of wildfires and fires are far more likely when roads fragment landscapes. We need all hands on deck to oppose this egregious public lands attack.

Sign our petition and send your unique comment to the Forest Service today, then urge your friends and family to do the same by September 21st!