Cooper Spur Wild & Free

10/19/2024

🌲 Cooper Spur Wild and Free Advocates 🌲

We need you at the Board of Commissioners meeting this Monday at 6:00 PM! An important agenda item will review the valuation of the forestland exchange between Hood River County and Mt. Hood Meadows.

Your presence is crucial! Join us in person (601 State St., Hood River, OR) or via Zoom.

Here’s how you can help:
1. Show Up: Attend the meeting.
2. Speak Up: If public comments are allowed, let your voice be heard.
3. Write It Down: Submit written comments
4. Spread the Word: Encourage others to join!

Together, let’s ensure our voices are heard! 🌿

More details in Thrive Hood River's Newsletter: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/October-2024-Special-Announcement--Urgent-Action-Needed-on-Land-Trade-Update.html?soid=1134110852900&aid=jiuHx3fMZBQ

10/15/2024

Help unlock funds for the Legal Defense Fund at Thrive Hood River and directly benefit the current legal cases keeping the North side of Mt Hood wild and free!

Donate to Hood River directly or participate in their Online Auction that ends this Sunday!

Auction link: https://charityauction.bid/HisforHarvestOnlineAuction

06/21/2024

Save the Date for Tilly Jane Cabins Summer Work Party - July 20-21
No RSVP required

Tell your friends and mark your calendar to come up and help prepare the cabins for continued use:

When: July 20-21, 9am-4pm
Where: Meet at the Tilly Jane Guard Station, park (FREE) at the campground
What:
- A Frame Roof Cleaning
- Trail Tending the Tilly Jane and Pollallie Ridge Trails
- Bucking firewood and clearing debris near the cabins and campground areas
- Minor Cabin repairs
- Cleaning the A Frame and Guard Station
What to Bring: Sturdy work boots, gloves, clothing appropriate for expected conditions, dust mask

Bring your own lunch and we will provide drinking water
FREE Cold beverages provided by Solera Brewing out of Parkdale
They will have a small FREE gear raffle with items from Ge**er Gear and others
All volunteers earn a FREE weekend stay at the A Frame during the 24-25 Winter season

The cabins will be open for overnight stay Friday and Saturday nights. You are also welcome to camp outside in the Tilly Jane Campground Friday and Saturday nights on a first come first served basis.

11/28/2023

With your support we preserve and protect the biological integrity and historic nature of the north side of Mt. Hood in and around Cooper Spur from new development, increased commercial activities, high impact recreational expansion, and timber sales on public and private lands in and adjacent to those lands.

Please consider helping us through a donation: https://cooperspur.org/

10/20/2023

One of our coalition members is having their benefit event and auction. The online auction starts this week. Check out this stay at the Tilly Jane A-Frame!

The winner will receive a two night, weeknight stay for a group of up to 20 at the historic Tilly Jane A-Frame on the north side of Mt. Hood.

https://auctria.events/Hisforharvest

10/17/2023

Check out this benefit for our partner organization Thrive Hood River. They have been instrumental in the fight to keep the North side of Mt Hood free from development.

Come Join us for Our Online Auction and our In-Person Celebration!

Why: Celebrating 46 years of protecting farmland, forests, wild places and the livability of our cities and rural communities.

When: Online auction opens October 20th and closes October 27th.
In-person celebration October 27th, 5:30-9:00 pm

Where: The Ruins, 13 Railroad Street, Hood River, OR 97031

Find tickets and more info @ www.thrivehoodriver.org

09/28/2023

Sharing an event you all might be interested in!

Fire on the Mountain Film Festival will be at Timberline Lodge on October 15, 2023 from 11am-5:30pm. Join the Mount Hood Corridor Wildfire Partnership as they view three short films about the current wildland fire situation in the western United States and learn what communities at risk can do to prepare. Between each screening a panel of subject matter experts will discuss themes from the previous film and answer audience questions. Come for one film, or stay for them all!

09/26/2023

Oregon Nordic Club and Friends of Tilly Jane Cabins would like help at the Tilly Jane Annual Firewood Haul!

When: October 7th, 9am-4pm
Where: Meet at the Tilly Jane Guard Station, park at the campground
What to Bring: Sturdy work boots, gloves, clothing appropriate for expected conditions, face mask
Bring your own lunch and they will provide drinking water
Beverages will be provided by Solera Brewing out of Parkdale
They will have a small raffle with gear from Ge**er Gear and others
All volunteers earn a FREE weekend stay at the A Frame during the 23-24 Winter season

08/03/2023

Thank you all so much for your support today at the Circuit Court. We packed that courthouse! We only got a picture of some of you in there, so apologies if we missed you. Thank you to Thrive Hood River for coffee and tea beforehand and Oregon Nordic Club - Portland Chapter for carpooling from Portland.

The desire of our community to be involved in this process spoke loudly today. We want to thank Judge Olson for hearing our arguments and taking the necessary additional time to review before ruling. We look forward to hearing from him in 3-4 months.

We will keep you all updated with any new information. Thank you all again!

08/03/2023

Please come and show your support at the Circuit Court! We will set up a coffee station outside the courthouse at 8:00am. Come early and chat before we all find our seats for the proceedings.

Where: Hood River County Circuit Court - 309 State St - Courtroom 1

When: Tomorrow August 3rd at 8:30am

Why: The Judge will decide whether to undo the 2002 original land trade between Hood River County and Meadows. For two decades, Thrive Hood River and the Cooper Spur Wild and Free Coalition stood by its word to enact the "clean sweep" land trade. Now, because of Meadow's decision to pursue options not outlined in our mediated deal, protecting Mount Hood's North Side means resuming the challenge of the original 2002 land trade.

07/25/2023

Action Alert! Join us at the Circuit Court!

On August 3rd at 8:30am the Judge will decide whether to undo the 2002 original land trade between Hood River County and Meadows. In this trade, Hood River County gained 786 acres more or less of forest land from Meadows and gave 640 acres more or less of public lands in the Crystal Springs Watershed to Meadows along with over a million dollars. In a separate process, the County made those public lands that went to Meadows newly eligible for a massive 450-unit destination resort.

Where: Hood River County Circuit Court - 309 State St - Courtroom 1
When: August 3rd at 8:30am

Please come and show your support at the Circuit Court! The more people in the courthouse the better. Thrive Hood River will set up a coffee station outside the courthouse at 8:00am. Come early and chat before we all find our seats for the proceedings.

For more information about the case, please check out the background section in Thrive's newsletter: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/A-Call-to-Action.html?soid=1134110852900&aid=GWkeExFs8SA

06/19/2023

It takes all of us to protect the place we love