Oregon Wild Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3

The once and future wild 40 years of superheroes Protecting and restoring ’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy.

Main Office Western Field Office INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5825 N Greeley Avenue Portland, OR 97217 P.O. Box 11648 Eugene, OR 97440 Phone: 503.283.6343 Fax: 503.283.0756 454 Willamette, Suite 203 This is 40 years of wild {4-11} www.oregonwild.org Phone 541.344.0675 Fax: 541.343.0996 The e-mail address for each Oregon Wild Conservation & Restoration Coord. Doug Heiken x 1 Everything in shroom - fall hikes! {13} staff member: [email protected] Western Oregon Field Coord. chandra LeGue x 2 (for example: [email protected]) Call of the Wild: A Camp-Inspired Wilderness Campaign Organizer Bridget Callahan x 203 Northeastern Field Office Benefit & 40th Birthday Celebration {back cover} Outreach & Membership Coord. Marielle Cowdin x 213 P.O. Box 48, Enterprise, OR 97828 Phone: 503.551.1717 Development Director Jonathan Jelen x 224 Finance Director Laura Mears x 219 NE Oregon Field Coordinator rob Klavins Office Manager christie Moore x 200 Conservation Director Steve Pedery x 212 Southern Field Office cover photo: wayne parker By permanently protecting Oregon’s natural treasures, we Wildlife Coordinator Quinn Read x 226 leave the greatest legacy possible for future generations. For forty years, Oregon Wild has P.O. Box 1923 Brookings, OR 97415 fought for this legacy, and we will continue to fight for what remains at risk - including our Executive Director Sean Stevens x 211 Phone: 541.366.8623 only national park and its backcountry - for our native wildlife, our children, and beyond. Wildlands Interpreter wendell Wood Oregon Wild Board of Directors Daniel Robertson, President Megan Gibb Eastern Field Office Brett Sommermeyer, VIce Leslie Logan 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR 97701 President Patrick Proctor Phone: 541.382.2616 Fax: 541.385.3370 Pat Clancy, Treasurer William Sullivan Wilderness Coordinator erik Fernandez Vik Anantha, Secretary Jan Wilson Central Oregon Field Coordinator pam Hardy Kate Blazar

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Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 2 From the Director’s Desk Rewilding ourselves Sean Stevens, Executive Director

the norm. We’ve logged billions of Wilderness (cores), led the grassroots board feet of old-growth forest in my fight to stop old-growth and roadless lifetime in Oregon. Will my nieces area logging (corridors), and been the f you’re anything like me, the and nephews simply assume that the leading voice for wolf recovery summer can be a tricky time to little we have left (estimates put the (carnivores). Ifinish a book. With so much to do number at somewhere between But we’ve also striven to rewild outside, I find my eyes looking at the 10-15%, so a spotted owl is truly Oregonians – to reconnect ourselves horizon and not down at a page. living in a 10% world) is the way our forests should be? to the values (both spiritual and One exception this summer came tangible) that wild nature provides. from a book given to me by a After drudging through one This summer, many of you took on generous friend of Oregon Wild. The eco-downer after another, the 50 Hikes Challenge, immersing book – J.B. MacKinnon’s The Once MacKinnon introduces the yourself in Oregon’s protected and Future World – is elegantly significantly more hopeful idea of landscapes. These experiences in written and captivating. It was also a rewilding. Many of you may be Wilderness – be they a short hike to little depressing at first. familiar with the concept, introduced by eminent conservation biologists a favorite picnic spot or an epic MacKinnon spends much of the 240 Michael Soulé and Reed Noss in the backpack to the most remote corner pages describing what he calls a “10% late 1990s, which calls for the of Oregon – are the antidote to our world.” Species loss, deforestation, protection of “cores, corridors, and collective nature memory loss. sprawl. The world that humans have carnivores” – key elements in And it is our collective duty to share shaped over the last quarter-million maintaining and restoring an the wild – with our children, our years is a shell of its former ecologically functioning world. neighbors, our elected leaders. So that abundance and glory. Worse yet, we the world we know today will be a don’t even know what we’ve lost. But it’s where MacKinnon goes with the idea of rewilding that really wilder one tomorrow. In a phenomenon that scientists call captured my imagination – rewilding “shifting baseline syndrome,” ourselves. successive generations without a personal remembrance of what the Of course, Oregon Wild has always worked to rewild Oregon. We’ve world used to be assume that today’s marielle cowdin Oregon Wild supporters rewild ecologically impoverished world is protected two million acres of themselves in the Devil’s Staircase Proposed Wilderness.

3 Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 Oregon Wild: Origins Steve Pedery, Conservation Director

n comic books, every superhero has an origin story. From spider bites to gamma rays, somethingI happens to transform an ordinary Joe or Jane into a hero who fights to right Oregon Wild archives wrongs and protect the defenseless. Back in 1974, a group of Oregonians gathered if it meant taking the US Forest Service or US around a campfire in the to talk about Fish and Wildlife Service to court. And they the clearcuts they saw destroying the wildlands wanted a group that was strategic, tirelessly of our state. Though President Nixon had just defending against environmental destruction, signed the Endangered Species Act into law while also scoring wins in Congress and the and glimmerings of an environmental Oregon Legislature by passing laws to awakening were taking root on the East Coast, permanently protect wild places and the fish here in Oregon clearcut logging was still king. and wildlife that call them home. The people gathered around that campfire didn’t have superpowers, but they did have a Thus began the Oregon Wilderness Coalition, common vision. From University of Oregon later to become the Oregon Natural Resources hippies to Eastern Oregon elk hunters, they Council (ONRC), and finally, Oregon Wild. wanted to see Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters protected as a legacy for future generations. Out of that campfire circle a new organization was born. Those visionaries wanted a state-based group that focused on Oregon, one that didn’t compromise its values for small or short-term gains. They wanted a group that was 1970s OWC staff guard the old-growth. tenacious and willing to fight hard to protect wildlife and Oregon Wild archives wilderness-quality lands, even

Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 4 Oregon Wild archives Andy Kerr and Sherry Wellborn

Though we’ve never had superpowers, we dozens of beloved waterways. We have have had superheroes – staff, activists, and safeguarded millions of acres of habitat for supporters like you who make up the Oregon threatened and endangered salmon and 1970 The federal Wild family; superheroes who have made our steelhead runs, and we’ve welcomed iconic government organization the most effective conservation species like American gray wolves and decides to “look group in Oregon. wolverine back home to Oregon. before you leap” as Congress Together, we have fought and won battles to For forty years, your support has allowed passes the stop devastating old-growth clearcuts and Oregon Wild to fight for the wildlands, National blocked new dams that would have strangled wildlife, and waters we all cherish. Join us as Environmental wild rivers. We have passed federal legislation we look back at how far we’ve come since Policy Act. that protected millions of acres of Oregon’s that campfire back in 1974, and reflect on unspoiled wildlands as Wilderness, and won how much we still have to accomplish. Wild and Scenic Rivers designations for ives on Wild arch Oreg 65 1970

1972 Activists gather to form a state-based group dedicated to protecting public lands.

1974 Oregon Wilderness Coalition formally incorporated. Congress creates John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. September 3, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Wilderness Act into law. oregon wild archives R o c k D-Day in D.C. – Final Passage of the 1984 Oregon Wilderness Bill Creek Wilderness Dedication Andy Kerr (from Wild Oregon Fall 1984)

Forest Wilderness Bill (HR 1149, is de rigueur for to break the national containing over 1.2 million acres) will professional lobbyists logjam. I am damn be this afternoon. now. proud, just for a moment. … I jump on the Metro subway at The final vote was a about 3:30. Things are behind comfortable 281 in I oscillate between schedule. I head to the House gallery, favor to 99 good thoughts of the armed with my pass from (Rep. Jim) opposed….I think saved Boulder Creek, Weaver’s office. about the ONRC/ Table Rock, Coast Audubon RARE II lawsuit and other Creeks, Monument Rock, Lower When ONRC staffers James Monteith actions we had taken in order to Minam, Mill Creek and others, against Danielle Hughson and Tim Lillebo spent most of 1983 catalyze the legislation. I had to the sadder thoughts of the yet-to-be- here in Washington, they discovered chuckle. How ironic that the other saved Middle Santiam, Old Cascades, the newest D.C. item in anticipation I sleep fitfully on this assignment to national environmental groups had Coleman and Deadhorse Rims, the of 1984: the Building Access Control opposed most of our efforts because Castle Rock Fork in the Rogue- the nation’s capital. I arose at 6:00 a.m. Card (BAC). I pull my building access on this, the 40th anniversary of the the timing wasn’t right – things were Umpqua Divide, North Fork John card out of my pocket. The photo ID is stuck. Oregon conservationists came Day, Joseph Canyon…and others. D-Day invasion of Normandy. The last the newest security procedure for vote of the Congress on the Oregon to town and, through the proper lobbyists after the recent bombings. It channels, used the Oregon delegation 75 1980

1978 Endangered American Wilderness Act protects 300,000 acres in Oregon. 1980 In a BLM Oregon Islands Wilderness timber sale Act passes state legislature. appeal, OWC and LAW name the northern spotted owl as a plaintiff blm for the first time. 1975 Congress designates Hells Canyon Wilderness/ Mount St. Helens Natural Recreation Area. eruption. austin post

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Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 6 OREGON WILD ARCHIVES 1980s staff at Lincoln Street Oregon Omnibus Wild and Scenic Rivers Act Becomes Law! Staff Report (from Wild Oregon Fall 1988)

In the waning days of the 100th Congress, the 1982 OWC changes name to Oregon Rivers bill of 1988 passed into law. Oregon Natural Resources Council. The bill designates 105 segments of 40 stream systems totaling 1,429 miles for protection. It Oregon Greg Burke w IL D also designates seven rivers as study streams 1983 ONRC helps permanently arch for possible future inclusion. Passage of the ives ban open-pit mining at Rock Mesa Waldo Lake bill increases the National Wild andx Scenic in the . Rally River System by 50%. Rivers added to the his intention to include Opal Creek in the system are classified as “wild,” “scenic,” or final bill when he spoke to the 16th annual “recreational,” and are accorded different levels Oregon Natural Resources Conference in of protection, with “wild” being the most mid-September. Opal Creek is the most intact protected. stand of ancient forest remaining in the western Cascades. Unfortunately, Governor The final list was, of course, a compromise. It Neil Goldschmidt, at the request of the timber includes some of the finest streams in Oregon, industry, worked vigorously to excise Opal but unfortunately not all of them. The biggest Creek from the bill. single disappointment was perhaps Opal Creek. Senator Mark O. Hatfield announced 85

1985 Dedication from ONRC activists puts Crabtree Valley back in oregon wild public hands s Wendell & archives Fighting rchive as BLM land. alan hirschmugl ild A for Oregon in D.C. Oregon w aldo Lake 1980s ood at W Kathy W 7 Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 chandra le gue 1990 U.S. 1996 Oregon’s uncut gem protected Department with Opal Creek Wilderness designation. of Fish and Wildlife lists Portland’s drinking water kept pure with northern Bull Run and Little Sandy watershed spotted owl protection legislation. as a threatened species. Courtesy of ODFW 1992 Oregon 1995 ONRC Wild helps secure wins Wild & ESA protection Scenic for Snake River designation spring chinook for Klamath salmon. leticia stryker River. ives Oregon Wild arch 1990 95

ONRC’s answer is simple: “We are willing to Director of Conservation at President Clinton’s Forest Wars & The work as hard as possible for as long as it takes.” Forest Summit Northwest Forest Plan Permanent protection of forest ecosystems is our Twenty years of fighting for our forests goal, and grassroots activism, citizen from Wild Oregon December enforcement, litigation and protective legislation The Northwest’s ancient forests are anchors of and Winter 1994 are the means to achieve it. As long as our biological diversity…More than anything else, forests are threatened by the chain saw, we’re ONRC is known for its award-winning “ONRC ‘has spearheaded a guerilla campaign in going to be there to campaign to save the courts, Congress and the media to drive the defend them. these forests. The old-growth timber industry out of business.” effectiveness and “Mr. President, when – Time Magazine notoriety of so little of the virgin ONRC’s ancient “Those environmental wackos at the ONRC, the forest is left – less forest campaign Oregon Natural Resources Council, are at it than 10 percent – illustrates the power again…” – Rush Limbaugh environmentalists are of blending Protecting westside forests: We’re in it not in a position to grassroots activism for the long haul compromise any with savvy further. The forest environmental Some ask, “How long before our forests, our has been advocacy. salmon runs and our drinking water are truly compromised all it protected?” Perhaps the real question should be can stand.” – Andy ONRC, represented “How hard are we willing to work for it?” Kerr, ONRC’s by the Sierra Club pamela winders T h e The Bush administration’s vision for Oregon: legally and This is a proud accomplishment for all of us Roadless Rule helped The Roadless Rule NO TREE LEFT BEHIND protect one-third of U.S. politically go who took part in making this dream a Forest Service managed Ken Rait (from Wild Oregon Spring 2001) with this issue, reality... lands for the wildlife and in doing that depend on them. Completion of Roadless Policy a The scope and scale of what we have done is Proud Moment so, have left a very proud truly historic and most worthy of the work it forest legacy will take to defend the policy in the courts, The roadless policy is complete. But alas, in the Congress and in the new now it is threatened. for all times, or for as long as Administration. Gary Braasch It seems a long time ago when the idea of They just can’t see the forest through the greed. we can defend

On July 12, 2004 the Bush administration The popular roadless rule was supposed to repealed the Roadless Area Conservation protect America’s last wild forests as a legacy for Rule, despite promising to uphold it. Now, over future generations. But the Bush administration is it. Consider some omnibus policy to protect one-third of 58 million acres of our national forests are at working hand-in-hand with corporate backers to risk to destructive road-building, logging and gut it. They just can’t see the forest through the drilling, including 2 million acres here in Oregon. greed. We need to tell the Bush administration, Places you know and love - from the Forest Service and the rest of America that the lands managed by the U.S. Forest to the Siskiyous - are on the chopping block. we’re still watching, and we still care. that it protects Please speak up for our roadless forests today at www.onrc.org/roadless ONRC Service, the remaining wild, pristine areas, Don’t wait- because once they’re gone, they’re gone forever. Protecting Oregon for 30 years fully one-third was just a half-cocked glimmer in our eyes. of all the lands Who would have ever thought we’d get so managed by the U.S. Forest Service from far in such a short time? commercial logging and most other forms of unscrupulous logging under the guise of The roadless policy, pure and simple, is a forest health, road construction, and new oil, work of art. The Clinton gas, coal, and potash leasing. Administration went as far as they could Legal Defense Fund, has helped mastermind the single most important victories in the 20-year ancient forest campaign – the judicial decisions that halted virtually all logging in 2000 spotted owl habitat managed by the federal government. ONRC also has worked closely with the Western Environmental Law Center, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund and other groups on precedent-setting cases and actions on behalf of our forests. Despite ONRC’s impressive list of successes, the fight for our forests is not over. Less than dave menke sam beebe, ecotrust 10 percent of Oregon’s original ancient forest remains unlogged. Much of what is left would 1999 ONRC and others gain 2001 Bull Run/Little Sandy Oregon Wild archives be open to logging under a newly proposed new protections for nine Watershed Act passes forest plan. But rest assured, ONRC is, as steelhead and salmon Congress – ONRC efforts lead 2002 ONRC helps save Eagle usual, at the forefront of the fight to improve populations in the Willamette to enhanced protection of Creek forests from timber that plan and to permanently protect all of and Columbia River basins. nearly 30,000 acres. sales in the Mount Hood NF. Oregon’s forest ecosystems.

9 Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 Mount Hood Forever Wild - Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009 Erik Fernandez, Wilderness Coordinator (from Oregon Wild Spring/Summer 2009)

I recall my first project with Oregon Wild as a We won permanent protections for volunteer in 1997 – drawing some of the very Mount Hood, the Columbia River first draft lines on the map for areas that would Gorge, Soda Mountain, Copper later be protected as Wilderness. Salmon, Spring Basin, and Badlands. That means the old-growth forests, The previous maps of potential wilderness were wildlife habitat, world-class drawn in the ’70s using the accuracy equivalent recreation opportunities, and clean of crayons. We were tasked with bringing that st drinking water these areas provide will be inventory into the 21 century using fancy GIS/ forever protected. mapping software…Oregon Wild has It was a powerful moment when, after years of relentlessly pursued increased Wilderness …This Wilderness victory would not have been working to protect these areas, I took my first protections in our state for the past ten years. possible without the support of our members. steps into the new Wilderness...I hope you get Today, I’m thrilled to tell you those efforts paid Folks like Kate and Mike McCarthy, Leslie out there and experience the exhilaration of off. Logan, and countless others devoted so much to exploring one of Oregon’s new Wilderness areas – seeing it as it has been for generations th the wilderness cause. You are the champions On March 30 President Obama signed the who showed up to countless town halls, and knowing it will survive for our Omnibus Public Lands Act of 2009 – finalizing summits, hearings, and wrote thousands of descendants to enjoy. Read more from the protections for 202,000 acres of Wilderness and letters demanding more protections for Oregon. newsletter archives: www.oregonwild.org/ © Darryl Lloyd 90 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers in Oregon. oregon-wild-newsletters. 05 2010

2007 Bush administration announces plans to drastically increase clearcut old- growth logtging 2009 Oregon Wild in western AP Photo/Kevin Launias and allies defeat Pete Springer Oregon forests WOPR – Obama under the 2008 Elk Creek Dam notched administration 2013 Gas motors (including sea AP Photo/Ron Edmonds WOPR. on a key tributary of the Rogue. withdraws plan. planes) banned on Waldo Lake.

Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 10 2011 Oregon’s most famous wolf, Journey (OR-7), begins his trek We won...but we’re not done out of northeast Sean Stevens, Executive Director Oregon.

2012 Oregon Wild holds plotting ways to ensure the hundreds OR-7 art and naming of thousands of acres of old growth contest for kids. left open to the chainsaw would not be felled. As Ken Rait celebrated the monumental accomplishment of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in 2001, he wrote on these pages of the coming attacks the policy would face Enora (age 8) of Portland, OR from the Bush administration. Today, the opportunities and challenges before Oregon Wild are Jim Purscelley Unprotected gems like Indigo Lake would be safeguarded eerily similar to those we’ve faced in for future generations under the Crater Lake Wilderness proposal. the past. Only 4% of our state is protected as t’s always fun to look back at old In 1984, after ONRC broke the Wilderness. We will not stop until we newsletter issues. This publication national Wilderness log jam and correct this Wilderness deficit – hasI been in print for forty straight passed a great leap forward in starting with Devil’s Staircase, the years! In that time we’ve told stories protected acres, Andy Kerr Wild Rogue, and the Crater Lake of unlikely heroes, profiled dozens of immediately rued the places we had Wilderness proposal. unyielding activists, and poked fun at failed to protect, swearing to work the powers that be more than once. harder to see them safeguarded. In Like a bad zombie movie, Oregon’s 1988, the Omnibus Oregon Wild and elected leaders can’t seem to quit As you’ve read on the previous pages, Scenic Rivers Act made our state the drinking from the timber spigot and we’ve chronicled our victories as well. protected rivers champion of North again we face threats to forest While I’m always struck by the America, but our staff reported the ecosystems across the state. We will enormity of our collective 2013 With Welcome to Oregon: Home of the bill was a “compromise” and there not stop until all of our ancient forests Clearcut billboard Oregon Wild and ACLU win accomplishments one thing stands were rivers left out. are protected and the Forest Service free speech lawsuit against Port of Portland. out every time we celebrate on these and BLM manage for restoration Oregon Wild launches Crater Lake Wilderness pages – we won but we weren’t done. The ink had yet to dry on the rather than pure exploitation. campaign. Northwest Forest Plan when we were

11 Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 Don’t Stop Believin’! Rob Klavins, Northeast Oregon Field Coordinator

from DNA tests, we do know she has produced at least three healthy pups. The news has buoyed spirits of conservation-minded Oregonians who see the return of American wolves as the triumphant conclusion to an epic conservation story - the symbolic righting of historical wrongs and hope for the future. Journey has inspired art, movies, creative writers, and even a successful LEFT: The famous OR-7 pauses for a rare portrait on a trail camera. RIGHT: Will expedition retracing his trek across wildlife agencies, state officials, and the general public give Journey’s pups a chance? Oregon’s most spectacular and special landscapes. For us, his exodus science and public opinion, pushing based conservation and legitimate photos Courtesy of ODFW A female from the Minam Pack collared in June 2014. validated decades of work to protect Wolf recovery is on the right track in Oregon, but we still have a long way to go. politically motivated plans to strip concerns against intense political the places that make Oregon so native wolves of basic protections. It’s pressure to kill wolves, but we’ve got awe-inspiring. It was also a reminder disappointing considering how far a long way to go. he world’s most famous wolf just Then in late spring, data from his of our yet unfinished tasks. we’ve come. can’t stay out of the news. fading collar hinted that he might be If the story is to have a happy ending, In July, we held our annual staff ThankfullyT for wolves across the settling down. Trail cameras placed Twenty years ago the Western we must learn lessons from our past retreat among old-growth forests at country, Journey (OR-7) continues to by wildlife managers later confirmed United States was almost totally and from our neighbors. 2015 is the headwaters of the Rogue River. be a tremendous ambassador. what many hardly dared wish for: devoid of wolves. But wolves in other going to be a critical year for With Journey’s family living nearby after a 3-year journey across states are again being hunted for Oregon’s wolves. They – and we – After trekking thousands of miles, it – the only known pack in the western mountains, deserts, and forests, sport – aggressively killed by public will be counting on you for support. appeared western Oregon’s lone, part of the state – and a reckless, OR-7 had found his mate. agencies charged with a conservation known wolf was looking for love in archaic logging scheme knocking at Take Action! mission. Not surprisingly, wolf all the wrong places. The batteries on While writing this story, her origins the doorstep, we’ve proposed the area Become a voice for wolves. populations are falling and conflict is his tracking collar were poised to remain a mystery and speculation for permanent protections as part of Join the Oregon Wild Wolf Pack: increasing as a result. blink out. Some lamented possibly abounds. Was she the dark canid our Crater Lake Wilderness www.tinyurl.com/oregonwolfpack losing track of the intrepid wolf. spotted on the Santiam pass five campaign. Though Oregon is far from perfect, Follow Oregon’s wolves on Others mused that his story ought to years ago? Was it she who left we’re doing better than just about Facebook: www.facebook.com/ Yet the Obama administration and end with a bit of mystery. tantalizing tracks on Mount Hood any other place. We’re striving to OregonsWolves state officials continue to steamroll last winter? While we await results strike a balance between science-

Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 12 Secrets of Crater Don’t Stop Believin’! Lake: Adventures Oh, the places you’ll hike Rob Klavins, Northeast Oregon Field Coordinator "It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air,” Beyond the Rim mused the late, great Dr. Seuss. These Savannah Mallo, Wilderness Intern words resound with truth to the outdoor enthusiast, and few understand them better than Oregonians. Thanks to volunteers, f you’ve never visited Crater Lake National hikers, leaders, and the generous support of Park, you’re missing one heck of a view. KEEN Footwear, OREGON WILD SUMMER Oregon’sI only National Park, Crater Lake is a was a success once more, with members, destination for thousands each year. Driving supporters, and friends hitting the trail to around the winding rim road, visitors soak up celebrate Oregon Wilderness! Don’t pack up sights of the stunning blue water, stop at your boots just yet, though – the 50 Hikes Challenge is on through October and (free) viewpoints to take photos, stare a bit longer, Oregon Wild adventures continue this fall. then pack up and leave. But most don’t realize that dozens of hidden wonders exist just Never is the wide, open air “opener” than in beyond the rim of this famous lake. autumn. The crowds disperse, the temperature is clean and brisk, edible Oregon Wild’s recently launched webpage, delights abound – it’s the perfect time to get ‘Secrets of Crater Lake: Adventures Beyond outside! Join us for a season full of mushrooms, colors, salmon, waterfalls, and the Rim,’ showcases eleven of these more! Visit www.oregonwild.org to find out spectacular sights. Varying in distance and more and sign up. difficulty, each adventure is listed with interactive maps and directions so that anyone Susan Kenney Newman Saturday, October 4 can enjoy these little-known treasures. From Brown Mountain Lava Flow Tamanawas Falls Fall Foliage Hike (PDX) the spray of Rough Rider Falls to the Saturday, October 4 shimmering water of Indigo Lake, these And if crystal blue watersheds and old-growth Joseph Canyon Hike with HCPC (Enterprise) destinations will not disappoint. forests weren’t already deserving of permanent Saturday, October 18 protection, Journey (OR-7), Oregon’s famous These treasures, however, need your help. Larch Mountain Mushroom Hike (PDX) bachelor wolf, has chosen the Crater Lake While Crater Lake is a National Park, the neighborhood for his newfound family (see Monday, October 20 lake and its backcountry do not have the full page 12). Now home to the first wolf pack in Herman Creek Mushroom Hike (PDX) protection they deserve. Helicopter tours and southern Oregon in over 70 years, this habitat logging proposals (see page 14) threaten to Wednesday, October 22 is all the more precious. So, if you share our disrupt and destroy this serene landscape. To Salmon River Mushroom Hike (PDX) hope to have wolf howls and jaw-dropping ensure these natural wonders remain for natural beauty in Oregon for years to come, Saturday, November 1 generations to come, Oregon Wild is fighting Salmon River Canyon Hike (PDX) join us in exploring these hidden wonders and to get these areas protected through our support the campaign. Saturday, November 8 Crater Lake Wilderness campaign, which For more information check out Fall Creek Mushroom Hike (Eugene) would safeguard over 500,000 acres in and Top: Marielle cowdin Middle: doug vorwaller www.oregonwild.org/wilderness. Bottom: WENDELL WOOD around the National Park.

13 Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 Forest round-up: one step forward, two steps back? Staff Report

threat level:  low  moderate  high  extreme small “pilot projects” testing “variable retention regeneration harvests” on O&C lands, like Buck Green Lower Joseph Rising (pictured here), have now expanded to Mountain Canyon much larger logging proposals in the Eugene, Still in development, this project This large project in the Wallowa-Whitman Roseburg, Medford, Salem, and Coos Bay BLM currently includes clearcuts in mature National Forest is expected to propose Districts. Adding to this regression, the Medford forests of the South Fork McKenzie commercial logging in remote roadless forests, BLM has proposed logging in the Douglas Fire drainage. old-growth, and other sensitive areas. We will stay actively engaged to try and influence the Complex – which would wreak havoc on this project’s direction. Chandra Le Gue fragile, recovering landscape and the wildlife that are trying to survive in the aftermath of the fire. Goose Thomas Creek, Kahler, & East Face regon’s forests have been hot this summer, In Eastern Oregon, the timber industry and their and we’re not just talking about the allies are also pressing to increase the pace and We litigated and stopped this project With a lot of agreement, these projects in the Otemperature. The timber industry, their allies, and near McKenzie Bridge, but Goose is Umatilla & Wallowa-Whitman National scale of logging. The big projects in these drier being redone and could still include Forests show promise to focus on restoration Oregon politicians have all been turning up the forests are largely promoted as a form of logging in roadless and riparian areas. and result in positive forest benefits. Some heat, pushing to revive the kind of intense logging “restoration,” but depending on who you talk to interests, however, continue to push for that devastated our old-growth forests and pristine this term has drastically different definitions. To aggressive logging beyond zones of common streams, and threatened fish and wildlife the timber industry, restoration means cutting agreement. We will stay engaged in their development. populations across the state. This is especially trees. To us, restoration may include removal of disappointing given the progress we’ve made over small trees to protect old growth, but it also means Douglas Fire Bybee the last decade with our common sense vision for closing old destructive roads, reducing grazing Salvage forest and watershed restoration – thinning in impacts, improving fish habitat, reintroducing fire, We are litigating this project to log more We are currently litigating this project that young plantations and fire suppressed areas, while and restoring landscape connectivity. Our work in than 1,000 acres of burned forest, which includes logging in the Crater Lake protecting mature and old-growth forests and central and eastern Oregon forest collaborative provides important habitat for spotted Wilderness Proposal. roadless areas. groups gives us the opportunity to influence the owls and other wildlife. direction these big projects take, and we’re working West of the Cascades, mature forests are under BLM clearcut Blue Mountain Forest hard to make sure science-based restoration shines threat from a recent push to increase clearcuts and projects Plan Revision through in the final outcome. When it doesn’t, logging - from the Willamette National Forest‘s we’ll be prepared to fight reckless projects. Numerous clearcut timber sales on The draft plan for the Umatilla, Wallowa- Green Mountain Project in the McKenzie River western Oregon BLM lands are in Whitman, and Malheur National Forests falls drainage, to the Rogue River National Forest’s Visit oregonwild.org to take Take Action! development. A new Plan Revision far short of protecting wildlands, old-growth Bybee Timber Sale on the doorstep of Crater Lake action and speak up for Oregon’s forests – likely proposing an increase in logging forests, and streams. We offered comments on National Park. The Bureau of Land Management your voice makes a difference! across the landscape is also in the works. the proposal in August. (BLM), however, is really going rogue. The once

Fall 2014 Volume 41, Number 3 14 biggest companies in the The more country. We’re lucky she has family in Oregon, that she things change moved out west in late 2013, and that she immediately fell in On a hot, late-July day in the heart of the love with hiking Oregon’s Crater Lake Wilderness proposal, the outdoors. Just a month after Oregon Wild staff and interns gathered for a Laura joined the team, our 2013 photo in front of a giant Douglas fir during co-volunteer of the year, our annual retreat. The enormity of the tree Christie Moore, came on board and the faces in the picture truly encapsulate as our new Office Manager. that old idiom “the more things change, the Christie brings an unwaveringly more they stay the same.” positive attitude and a strong This year, Oregon Wild love of wolves to her work. celebrated the Welcome Laura and Christie! retirement of one of our An even longest-serving staff more members, Candice recent Guth. As our financial marielle cowdin Oregon Wild Staff & Interns (left to right): Bridget Callahan, Marin Grey, Steve Pedery, Chandra addition to LeGue, Doug Heiken, Jonathan Jelen, Erik Fernandez, Wendell Wood, Christie Moore, Savannah Mallo, Sean Stevens, guru, Candice saw us the team is Danica Swenson, Marielle Cowdin, Nicole Budine, Rob Klavins, Quinn Read. through tough Pam economic times and boom years, always Hardy. No giving us that expert, steady hand to keep our member on the move this year as Northeast stranger to the Big thanks go out to our 2014 summer heads on straight. While future financial Oregon Field Coordinator, Rob Klavins, environmental advocacy scene in Oregon, interns – Nicole Budine, Marin Grey, custodians of the organization will wonder at took on a new job title and zip code moving Savannah Mallo, and Danica Swenson Pam comes to Oregon Wild after a recent her decade-long streak of clean audits, we’ll to Enterprise out in Wallowa County. – for their great ideas and immeasurable stint at the land-use group 1,000 Friends of remember her for her wisdom and unerring energy and support during their tenure Oregon. A life-long Wilderness explorer and passion for Oregon’s wild places. All of this change for the Oregon Wild staff with Oregon Wild. Hailing from upstate whitewater rafter, Pam will take up the role brings me back to the big Douglas fir New York, Oregon, Michigan, and Stepping into the of Central Oregon Field Coordinator in standing sentinel over the Upper Rogue Hawaii respectively, each were valuable Quickbooks breach is Bend. River. While our roles shift and we find new members of our team: from timber sale Laura Mears. A ecosystems to call home, that old-growth tree watchdogging and working outreach Pam’s arrival coincides with a change of Minnesotan, by and the wilderness that surrounds it is ever events, to crafting blog posts and scenery for our Wilderness Coordinator, demeanor more than present. Oregon Wild has undergone a year assisting with pending litigations. We’ll Erik Fernandez, who made the move from forever be grateful for their hard work accent, Laura comes to of change, but thanks to our supporters and Portland to Bend this year – giving us a two and know great things are in store for Oregon Wild with a friends we are as strong as ever and our person Bend office for the first time in each of them. Thank you all! wealth of knowledge in important work remains the same. decades. And Erik wasn’t the only staff serving the financial needs of some of the

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