EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 19 -- Cascadia Wildlands issued the following news release: * * * - Court Rules BLM Clearcuts on the Edge of Springfield Will Increase Fire Hazard and Harm Recreation - Conservation groups and neighbors defeat BLM's Thurston Hills timber sale * * * On Wednesday, Judge Michael McShane ruled in a lawsuit filed by Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild, determining that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated federal laws when it approved clearcutting 100 acres of public  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 16 -- Cascadia Wildlands issued the following news release: In response to a petition from conservation groups, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-3 late Friday to protect Humboldt martens from trapping. Fewer than 200 of the martens survive in the state's coastal forests. The new trapping guidelines ban all marten trapping west of the Interstate 5 corridor. The rules also ban all commercial and recreational mammal trapping in the Oregon Dunes National Recr  more

SEATTLE, Washington, Sept. 18 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: * * * - 15,000 Square Miles of Critical Habitat Added to Existing Salish Sea Protections * * * The federal government proposed a new rule today expanding critical habitat protection along the West Coast for critically endangered Southern Resident killer whales, whose population has dipped to just 73 orcas. The National Marine Fisheries Service called for designating 15,627 square miles of  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 16 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release: In response to a petition from conservation groups, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-3 late Friday to protect Humboldt martens from trapping. Fewer than 200 of the martens survive in the state's coastal forests. The new trapping guidelines ban all marten trapping west of the Interstate 5 corridor. The rules also ban all commercial and recreational mammal trapping in the Oregon Du  more

BEAVERTON, Oregon, Sept. 19 -- The National Center for Public Policy Research issued the following news release: * * * - By Halting Sales of Betsy Ross Tribute Sneakers, Nike Shows Kaepernick is Company's True Leader - Free Enterprise Project Offers Gift of Rush Limbaugh's "Stand Up for Betsy Ross" T-Shirt to CEO Mark Parker, Who Refuses It * * * Beaverton, OR/Washington, D.C. - After Nike CEO Mark Parker conducted a sham question-and-answer session in which he refused to truthfully answer   more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 19 -- Oregon Wild issued the following news release: * * * - Conservation groups and neighbors defeat BLM's Thurston Hills timber sale * * * On Wednesday, Judge Michael McShane ruled in a lawsuit filed by Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild, determining that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated federal laws when it approved clearcutting 100 acres of public land next to the city of Springfield. The court said that BLM's environmental review failed to consider the   more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept. 16 -- Oregon Wild issued the following news release: In response to a petition from conservation groups, the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 4-3 late Friday to protect Humboldt martens from trapping. Fewer than 200 Humboldt martens survive in the state's coastal forests. The new trapping guidelines ban all marten trapping west of the Interstate-5 corridor, all commercial and recreational mammal trapping in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, and all tr  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 19 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: The Western Environmental Law Center, Wilderness Workshop, Western Colorado Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club recently won an important victory in Federal District Court. The lawsuit challenged BLM's 2015 Resource Management Plan (the plan) for the Colorado River Valley Field Office (CRVFO), which would have drastically expanded oil and gas drilling on Colorado's We  more

EUGENE, Oregon, Sept. 17 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release: Late yesterday, clean water advocates filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force it to address extremely high urban storm water pollution in Los Alamos County, downstream from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Urban storm water pollution from PCBs, copper, zinc, nickel, and gross alpha radiation in Los Alamos County is threatening public health - some polluta  more