Crag Law Center

08/25/2026

Today we’re celebrating Crag Legal Fellow Kelsey Dunn, who is wrapping up her two-year fellowship with us.

Over the past two years, Kelsey has worked alongside Crag attorneys and our clients on some incredibly important cases, including our South Fork Sacramento case, where we just secured an important win for northern spotted owls.

Her fellowship has been full of firsts: her first Endangered Species Act case, first federal briefing, first preliminary injunction, and first time arguing before a federal judge.

More importantly, Kelsey has become an excellent attorney, advocate, and colleague. She has brought care, thoughtfulness, curiosity, and a deep commitment to our clients to everything she’s worked on.

We’re so grateful for everything Kelsey has contributed to Crag over the past two years. While we’re sad to see her fellowship come to an end, we’re incredibly proud of the advocate she has become—and excited to see what comes next for her.

Thank you, Kelsey! We’ll miss you!

07/03/2026

We were proud to be in court this week challenging an unlawful logging plan!

07/02/2026

🪕 You’re invited to Crag’s summer concerts!

Acclaimed roots artist Trisha Gene Brady (formerly of The Black Lillies) is playing two concerts for Crag this month! Enjoy great music, connect with community, and celebrate 25 years of Crag Law Center standing with communities across the Pacific Northwest.

Portland: Saturday, July 18
📍 Lynn Morgan’s backyard, SE Portland (address shared after RSVP)
🎶 Doors at 6 PM | Show at 7 PM

Hood River: Sunday, July 19
📍 The Ruins, Hood River
🎶 Doors at 5:30 PM | Show at 6 PM

All proceeds support Crag’s free legal services for people fighting to protect forests, rivers, wildlife, and healthy communities.

Learn more and get tickets at:

Join us for two special performances by acclaimed roots musician Trisha Gene Brady, for great music, community, and a fun time!

06/23/2026

Data centers have a huge impact on our environment, and our existing regulations have not been able to keep up. We’re proud to work with our clients to challenge Hillsboro's tax breaks to data centers.

In response to growing concerns and unanswered questions about the impacts of data center development, 1000 Friends of Oregon has partnered with Willamette Law Group, Crag Law Center, local leaders, farmers, businesses, and other organizations to sue the City of Hillsboro. Petitioners allege that the city, along with Washington County, improperly issued key approvals needed for property tax breaks associated with 17 data center applications.

To date, Hillsboro has given hundreds of millions of public dollars to subsidize data centers, resulting in higher water and energy bills, teacher lay-offs, school closures, and serious threats to pave over watersheds and local farms.

Data center businesses are increasingly pursuing development pathways that sidestep land use processes, limit public participation in land use decisions, reduce or avoid paying fair property taxes or public infrastructure, and receive public funding from grants, loans, and/or direct subsidies. Oregonians are raising concerns about these data center deals because of the immediate and long-term impacts to statewide education funding, local communities, and public services.

It’s clear that Oregon communities need stronger oversight tools to hold data center development accountable. 1000 Friends is also launching a new Data Center Reform Fund which will support communities navigating complex land use, development, and tax-related decisions with long-term public consequences.

Learn more about the lawsuit against the City of Hillsboro here: https://friends.org/news/2026/6/1000-friends-sue-hillsboro
Contribute to the Data Center Reform Fund here: https://engage.friends.org/main

05/22/2026

Big win for the Tututni Estuary! Working alongside our clients, the Northwest American Indian Coalition, and Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition, we challenged a proposed RV Park from being built in the Tututni Estuary in Curry County, Oregon.

The proposed RV Park development would have brought roads, buildings, and heavy use into a protected coastal shoreline that provides important wildlife habitat and holds deep cultural significance for Indigenous communities. The site has been used as a place of ceremony, food systems, travel routes, cultural and ecological abundance for the Tututni people and neighboring Tribes since time immemorial.

We challenged the project at the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, and earlier this month they issued a decision ruling the RV Park unlawful. Thanks to the deep commitment of our clients who do the hard, steady work of defending the places they love, Crag helped stop an unlawful development before construction could move forward.

This is a huge win for cultural preservation, environmental protection, and the communities that cherish this special place.

🔗 You can learn more about the case on our website:

We helped protect a Curry County coastline by stopping an unlawful RV park proposal in the Tututni Estuary.

05/15/2026

Big gratitude to our partners Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and Umpqua Watersheds, and to all the community members who tirelessly worked to protect those forests. Stay loud and stay out there folks! Our work matters!!

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

🌲🌲Huge news! We successfully challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s “Blue and Gold” logging plan to log old growth forests near Yoncalla, Oregon. Big gratitude to our partners Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and Umpqua Watersheds, and to all the community members who tirelessly worked to protect those forests. Stay loud and stay out there folks! Our work matters!!

📷 Photo by David Herasimtschuk
🔗 Read the full press release here: https://crag.org/judge-strikes-down-old-growth-logging-plan

05/12/2026

We’re taking emergency legal action to stop illegal old-growth logging in western Oregon. Proud to stand with our clients Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and Umpqua Watersheds to defend ancient forests and hold the Bureau of Land Management accountable.

05/12/2026

🌿✨We have a few spots left in our Wine Social and community fundraiser at Winter’s Hill Wine Estate this Sunday!

Ease into summer with a welcoming afternoon at Winter's Hill Estate —where good wine, beautiful surroundings, and a shared love of the natural world come together in support of Crag’s work.

This is a relaxed, community-centered fundraiser: a chance to gather, connect, and enjoy the landscape while helping fund Crag’s critical legal advocacy. Your ticket directly supports efforts to protect wild places, wildlife, and the ecosystems we all depend on.

Raise a glass for nature and wildlife
🍷 What: Crag & Winter’s Hill Wine Social
📅 When: This Sunday, May 17, 2026 from 2:00–5:00 PM
📍Where: Winter’s Hill Estate | 6451 NE Hilltop Lane, Dayton, OR 97114
🔗 Buy tickets at

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04/30/2026

It's the last day to join our Earth Month efforts supporting , aka the environment's legal aid...

🍫 Donate $50+ to Crag Law Center to receive a 25% discount on your next Wildwood® order.

🍫 Ready for a long term commitment? The first 25 new monthly donors to pledge $25+ will also receive a free Berry Berry bar.

Crag Law Center supports people fighting to protect ecosystems, climate, and communities across the Pacific Northwest by providing strategic, free and low-cost legal services to help communities win lasting environmental protections.

Supporting the environment and has never been sweeter 🌎

To learn more visit crag.org and join the fight 💪