Oregon Wild Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1

Oregon's forests on the edge annual report inside

1 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Working to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

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 Oregon's forests at the crossroads {4-7} 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 Snow on your shoes, mud on your boots {8-9} staff member: [email protected] Old Growth Campaign Coordinator Chandra LeGue x 2 (for example: [email protected]) Annual Report {15} Membership Associate Marielle Cowdin x 213 Eastern Field Office Wilderness Coordinator Erik Fernandez x 202 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR 97701 Phone: 541.382.2616 Fax: 541.385.3370 Director of Finance & Admin. Candice Guth x 219 Communications & Outreach Tommy Hough x 223 Eastern OR Development Coordinator Jonathan Jelen x 224 Wildlands Advocate Tim Lillebo Wildlands & Wildlife Advocate Rob Klavins x 210 cover photo: fred An Many of the forests around Mt. Hood enjoy significant protection, but Conservation Director Steve Pedery x 214 Southern Field Office equally spectacular forests elsewhere around the state are at a management crossroads. Executive Director Sean Stevens x 211 P.O. Box 1923 Brookings, OR 97415 Phone: 541.366.8623

Oregon Wild Board of Directors Wildlands Interpreter Wendell Wood Megan Gibb, President Daniel Robertson, Vice President & Secretary Pat Clancy, Treasurer Vik Anantha Shawn Donnille www.facebook.com/OregonWild Leslie Logan Brett Sommermeyer @oregonwild William Sullivan Jan Wilson Oregon Wild is a tax-exempt, non-profit charitable organization. Newsletter printed on New Leaf 100% recycled, 50% post-consumer, FSC certified paper with soy based inks. Oregon Wild is printed locally by Environmental Paper and Print, an Oregon Wild donor and business partner.

Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 2 From the Director’s Desk Our votes and our vision Sean Stevens, Executive Director

ver the past year, Oregon Wild the outcome at the polls had expendable – open to sale for the has been crafting a new diverged. Given the lack of attention highest bidder. Ostrategic plan to chart our course for paid to environmental issues during the future. It’s an important and this election, you’d be forgiven for not It is our deeply-held notion of exciting process we undertake every knowing the major conservation responsibility to future generations which has always prevailed. More four years – and we’re almost done. policy differences between Barack sue newman The path ahead toward protecting Oregon’s Obama and Mitt Romney. and more this sentiment is backed by special places will be long and arduous – but it will be worth it. We’ve spent the last several months an economic argument made by re-evaluating our programs, asking The two most frequent questions I’m powerful allies in the outdoor hard questions about what’s working asked when it comes to politics and recreation industry – whose voices Wilderness in 1984 with a year we came in ahead of budget, and what’s not, and thinking about the environment are: Can we become more influential as their Republican president and two raising more revenue than expected the Oregon we want to live in four accomplish anything for the footprint in the western economy Republican senators (one of them thanks to hundreds of supporters years from now. environment when all anyone talks grows. oft-described as a “timber beast”). who found a way to give a little extra about is the economy? And how can this past year. Our membership is Our strategic planning process As for the mess in Congress, there is While hopeful, we also know it will growing and our e-mail alert list can we break through the partisan take hard work to keep Oregon on usually coincides with the gridlock? no denying partisanship has stalled easily flood the inboxes of decision quadrennial presidential election – in many worthwhile legislative efforts. the right track. The threat of public makers with 1,000 messages in a part because the ultimate decisions It’s true, and appropriate, that the A long-shot omnibus bill in the lame lands privatization and massive single day. about public lands are made in the economy dominates our current duck session is all that’s stopping the increases in clear-cut logging still sits halls of Congress and from the Oval political dialogue. But we know the 112th Congress from becoming the on the horizon (more details on page Your activism, your financial support, Office desk. short-term cry of “jobs above all else” first in 40 years to fail to pass a single four). Meanwhile, the Devil’s and your passion for Oregon are the is not a winning policy for wilderness Wilderness bill. Staircase, Wild Rogue, and the key ingredients which fuel Oregon But as I sat in my living room with long-term. Jobs and conservation wildest stretch of the Molalla River Wild. Let’s keep the momentum my wife watching election results in have never been mutually exclusive, Still, we have hope. As I told the still await their turn in Congress. rolling for the next four years and November, I wondered if our goals and Oregonians have long since gathered crowd at our October photo beyond. and ambitions for Oregon’s contest unveiling, we passed the As an organization, we are primed for passed the era when we viewed the success. During our most recent fiscal environment would look different if natural world around us as largest ever expansion of Oregon

3 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Oregon forests at the crossroads Chandra LeGue

At the crossroads – which re-growing the next rotation of BLM is already taking steps towards way do we choose? timber to be clear-cut. clear-cutting under the guise of “ecological forestry” in new timber Enjoying a drive into the Coast Or are they? sales like White Castle, Second Show, Range between Eugene and The management of public and Rainbow Ridge. Corvallis, I stop at a trailhead which forestlands in western Oregon is at a We are faced with a stark choice: leads into the Recreation crossroads. After decades of Area. I venture off the trail into a continue to restore our forests, aggressive logging on our public watersheds, and wildlife after decades forest well on its way to recovery lands, the managing agencies – the Mahogany Aulenbach of abusive logging, or make a U-turn after earlier logging, and stoop to U.S. Forest Service and BLM – have The boundary between find a golden chanterelle. Farther up back to the clear-cut logging which private and BLM land near begun to move towards conservation- brought us here. Alsea Falls. the trail I walk through a picnic area based thinning and restoration and down to Alsea Falls itself, where projects which enjoy the support of Our heritage forests at risk the is lined conservation groups. While it isn’t by old-growth trees. Each year, the case everywhere, responsible We’ve given a great deal of coverage to thousands of visitors drive this scenic forest managers are increasingly BLM lands in recent years, from the byway through the forests of the focused on protecting and restoring development and eventual death of Coast Range, and stop to enjoy this public values like clean drinking the Bush administration’s WOPR recreation area with its many trails, water, wild salmon, threatened plan (Western Oregon Plan scenic picnic spots, waterfalls, and wildlife habitat, carbon storage to Revisions), to recent proposals to fall mushrooming. mitigate for global warming, and re-link county funding to public lands logging. The reason for all the Just a few miles off the scenic byway, nearby recreation. attention? The 2.6 million acres of up a winding gravel road through Not everyone is happy with this new western Oregon forest lands at stake hills stripped bare of trees, the direction. Proposals in Congress are among the most important public difference between private timber threaten to weaken environmental lands in our state. land and public lands – Bureau of laws and gut the landmark Land Management (BLM) lands in Northwest Forest Plan. The logging Western Oregon BLM lands contain this case – is stark. While the 50-year industry continues to oppose some of the last remaining low old plantation stand I enter was once endangered species recovery efforts, elevation old-growth forest in the clear-cut like the forests behind me, and some state and local politicians state, linking public lands in the Coast here the future plans are focused on are suggesting a return to public land Range with the Cascade and Siskiyou restoring the natural structure and clear-cutting to generate revenue to mountains. Because forests and Chandra Le G u e function of the forest, instead of wildlife on adjacent private lands have A patchwork of private bail out local budgets. In fact, the land clearcuts near Alsea. Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 4 been ravaged by logging, these areas are often the only habitat available to Threatened forests near you imperiled species. BLM lands in the state also contain rivers and streams Some of western Oregon’s most iconic, beautiful, and familiar places are found on BLM lands. These include which provide clean drinking water the stunning ancient forests in Crabtree Valley, the wild landscape surrounding the lower Rogue River, and a to over 1.8 million Oregonians. large part of the proposed Devil’s Staircase Wilderness. And while these places may not be threatened by The O&C debacle proposals to ramp up logging to fund counties, many other spectacular nearby places are.

Most of western Oregon’s BLM- 1 Headwaters of the Molalla River managed lands are known as O&C In the upper Molalla watershed, above the proposed Molalla Wild and Scenic River corridor, key public forestlands which filter the drinking water for Molalla and lands, which have a special history Canby are at risk. The headwaters of the Molalla are a combination of BLM public 1 and a law – the 1937 O&C Act lands and a sea of corporate-owned timber lands. The corporate-owned lands – governing their use along with have been, or will soon likely be, clear-cut on a vast scale. Compounding this other federal environmental laws and impact, much of the core public forests are proposed for transfer to the “Timber the Northwest Forest Plan. Trust” under the O&C Trust Act, where they would be logged much like surrounding industrial timberlands. Without these forests holding the soil in place Under the O&C Act, logging and providing habitat for wildlife, the drinking water and fish habitat in the Molalla River will face significant degradation. revenues from these forests were 2 linked to county budgets. During the 2 logging epidemic which swept Alsea Falls Area In the foothills of the central Range lie small remnants of exquisite western Oregon in the 1970s and old-growth forests. During the development of the WOPR, intrepid Corvallis-area 80s, these counties became forest lovers explored the area around the town of Alsea, finding beautiful forests accustomed to extraordinary at risk from logging. The Salem BLM has even proposed new trails to help clear-cut windfalls. When public showcase some of these places to the public. Many of the forests in this area opposition and the need to protect have huge legacy trees mixed in with younger forests and might slip through the loopholes in the O&C Trust Act and be logged. salmon, wildlife, and clean water reduced logging on BLM lands, counties faced a new funding 3 Botanically Rich Illinois Valley The Illinois River Valley in southwest Oregon is one of the most biologically diverse challenge. and botanically rich in the nation. On the edge of the , In 2000, Congress stepped in to thousands of acres of BLM lands in the valley have been recognized as designated Botanical Areas and Areas of Critical Environmental Concern, where directly provide funds to affected nature lovers can explore unique habitats and plants found nowhere else. And counties with the Secure Rural while most of western Oregon’s O&C lands are managed by the BLM, a large Schools Act (SRS) – a program set swath of the Siskiyou National Forest is made up of O&C holdings in the Illinois to expire this year. Valley. Thousands of acres of these botanically important public forests could be transferred to the proposed “Timber Trust” and logged – including designated Some counties have done little to Botanical Areas and some roadless areas. prepare, sparking a major political crisis, with some politicians turning Take Action! To find out more about what’s at stake and the latest to renewed clear-cutting as a information on BLM lands, visit http://tinyurl.com/OregonWild-BLMforests, and nominate BLM lands special to you for an upcoming report. (continued on page 6)

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Private vs. public lands: playing by different rules solution. The draft legislative proposal for the “O&C Trust, Conservation, and Jobs Act” put forward by Representatives DeFazio, Congressional Oregon State Forest Practices Act Federal Law and Northwest Forest Plan proposals to transfer Schrader, and Walden would have public lands to essentially privatized 1.5 million pseudo-public “timber Public Private landowners inform the state of their Requires detailed analysis of logging impacts and acres of BLM lands to form a trusts” highlight the Process intended logging plans. Little or no alternatives to proposed plans. The public has an logging “trust” to fund counties, and differences between opportunity for public to weigh in on plans. opportunity to comment on analysis and challenge would have adopted the weak the laws and policies agency decisions. logging rules of the Oregon State guiding logging and Forest Practices Act (see sidebar) to other activities on Stream Minimal no-cut buffers on fish-bearing Streams are protected with no-cut stream buffers do so. public vs. private Buffers streams, with 20 ft. of buffer on each side. As based on biological and hydrological criteria - lands. little as zero feet on small, non-fish-bearing typically 340 ft. for fish-bearing streams, and 170 ft. Governor Kitzhaber waded into the fray over the state’s BLM lands this Private timber lands streams. Logging is allowed outside these for non-fish bearing streams. Thinning may be fall, when he assembled a panel of are generally buffers. allowed inside these buffers only if ecological stakeholders from timber, county, managed for timber objectives are met. production, and are and conservation interests to determine how to best solve county guided by the Logging Oregon Forest Up to 120 acre clear-cuts are allowed by a Clear-cutting is prohibited in old-growth reserves. budget woes. Unfortunately, the Practices Act (OFPA). single landowner at a time. Adjacent logging Thinning is allowed in forest stands up to 80 years governor appears to be using the National Forest and cannot occur within 300 ft. until replanted old. In non-reserve areas, clear-cuts and other, more DeFazio O&C bill as his model. BLM lands are trees are four years old. Replanting of trees is intensive logging methods are allowed, but at least The wrong direction managed for multiple required. six to eight trees per acre must be retained (more in public values, and southern Oregon). Sacrificing one of the most valuable federal environmental and enduring assets of the United laws apply to public Wildlife No areas are specifically reserved for wildlife. Reserves for wildlife which depend on old forests lands which require Habitat States – our public lands – is the A minimum of two wildlife trees or logs per are built into the landscape management plan. wrong approach to solving county analysis of acre are required to be left in clear-cuts larger Specific guidelines provide for wildlife habitat at environmental budget shortfalls, and the O&C than 25 acres. Clear-cuts under 25 acres in multiple scales. impacts, public input, Trust Act concept would indeed be a rigorous stream size have no wildlife tree requirements. sacrifice. Though it does include protections, and some protections for the oldest Pesticides Aerial spraying of herbicides to kill Certain chemicals are allowed, but are generally protection and forests and other special areas, much vegetation which competes with crop trees is used sparingly and applied manually to control restoration of of the landscape Oregonians use and commonly used across many thousands of noxious weeds. Aerial spraying and use of chemicals endangered species enjoy every day would be lost. habitat. acres. 60 ft. buffer for aerial spraying on to control competing native vegetation in order to fish-bearing or drinking water streams. boost timber production is not allowed. With hundreds of thousands of acres Smaller streams have no buffer. of healthy, mature forests, thousands of miles of stream sides, and critical habitat for threatened species could

Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 6 placed into a “timber trust” or agreement on how eastern Oregon’s management on restoring natural recognized as a model for public Oregonians who value wildlife, clean otherwise opened up to damaging forests could be managed to conserve conditions. In western Oregon, our lands conservation. water, and healthy forests need to logging, the proposal would have and restore forests and watersheds, as involvement in pioneering work speak up now to ensure our state, unacceptable environmental impacts well as maintain the timber economy designing forest restoration projects Oregon today faces a stark choice and the nation, chooses wisely. between continuing this kind of and would be highly controversial of rural Oregon. The result was a which improve conditions for fish Take Action! Weigh in on and polarizing. proposal for a new management and wildlife, while generating a common-sense, conservation-based management, or liquidating forests clear-cutting our public lands paradigm based on science and sustainable supply of timber as a at www.oregonwild.org More than a decade of investment in ecological restoration which will by-product, has been nationally to generate a quick fix to cover building common ground and benefit fish, wildlife, and forest county budget shortfalls. All infrastructure for forest and health for generations to come. watershed restoration on public © Daniel Pennington lands, along with the jobs this In 2013, Senator Wyden will almost blossoming industry provides, would certainly become chair of the be set back under these extreme powerful Senate Committee on proposals. Energy and Natural Resources. This Sense in the senate will enable Wyden to not only move forward with eastern Oregon forest Luckily, not all elected officials see legislation, but also craft a workable clear-cut logging as a quick fix to solution to the budget woes of some county budget woes. In response to county governments. the governor’s process, Senator Ron The path forward Wyden recently released a set of Keeping it evergreen with recurring gifts principles outlining a path forward in Oregon Wild has long been a Jonathan Jelen resolving the budget crisis facing national leader in efforts to reform rural counties, and resolving conflicts the management of our public lands. over public O&C forestlands. In the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s the The recent proposal to clear-cut western Evergreen Society members make dependable organization was at the forefront of Oregon’s old-growth forests is another example monthly gifts via credit card or automatic bank While not perfect, Wyden’s the campaign to stop old-growth of the need for Oregon Wild to remain constantly transfer. These monthly contributions decrease principles provide a good starting clear-cutting and protect salmon and vigilant. Sometimes threats to our public lands the amount of money we spend on fundraising, point for discussions among other wildlife. More recently, we come with ample warning, allowing us to plan enabling us to channel more of your support conservationists and county leaders have worked to shift forest ahead and best use our resources. Other times, toward protecting the places in Oregon special to to craft a workable, balanced, and management in a more sustainable these threats arise suddenly and require us to you and your family. realistic legislative proposal which immediately mobilize our efforts. direction focused on restoring our Evergreen Society supporters allow us to does not sacrifice the conservation public lands and correcting the values Oregonians hold dear. Oregon Wild Evergreen Society members give us proactively plan our campaigns and respond to abuses of the past. the resources to respond to these threats – new threats to our wildlands, wildlife, and waters. Senator Wyden has a history of This approach works. Years of whether they come with fair warning or not. To join today, please visit us on-line at finding such solutions. First advocacy by Oregon Wild staffers Joining the Evergreen Society is the best way to www.oregonwild.org/membership or call introduced in 2009, his “Oregon like Tim Lillebo have helped build support Oregon Wild’s ongoing, consistent efforts Jonathan Jelen at (503) 283-6343, ext 224. Eastside Forest Restoration, consensus around the need to protect to defend our wildlands, wildlife, and waters. Old-Growth Protection and Jobs old-growth and roadless areas in Act” was born from the desire to find eastern Oregon forests, and focus 7 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Bill's Excellent Adventures Crater Lake cross-country skiing William Sullivan

Surprisingly few people snow and weather are perfect. There survival equipment, rangers insist drive up to see the lake in is no shortcut back for skiers who get trekkers get the permits in person winter, perhaps because tired part way around the lake, and the lodge and campground cell phones generally don’t have More than 100,000 people drive are closed. The only indoor reception. around Crater Lake each summer, attractions are a gift shop, but only about 60 people a year a cafeteria, a visitor center, Circling the rim in three or four days succeed in skiing or snowshoeing the and a restroom. is safer, but requires heavy backpacks same route during the winter months with thick sleeping bags, four-season from December to May. Get out of Most of the winter, tents, and cook stoves. the car! Strap on some snow gear and panoramas from the Rim explore Crater Lake when it’s Village parking area are Those setting out around the rim in prettiest, in winter. blocked by an eight-foot winter have to pick up a free permit wall of snow. Rangers cut at the Steel Information Center at For more information about this and a slot through the snow so Park Headquarters, three miles south other trails around Crater Lake, pedestrians can get to a of Rim Village. To make sure check out the current edition of viewpoint. If you’ve everyone knows about the route’s William L. Sullivan’s 100 Hikes in brought skis or snowshoes, avalanche detours and has the proper Southern Oregon. however, you can sally forth along the rim to much better views. Marked trails are provided for day trips.

PHOTOS BY Jim Chamberlain Adventurers tackling a ski or snowshoe trip entirely around Crater Lake’s rim With an average of 44 feet of snow angers at Crater Lake National usually plan the trek for March or falling here each winter, Rim Drive Park complain many visitors April, when there’s more daylight R usually closes to motor traffic in simply drive around the lake’s rim and fewer storms than in mid- November. Crews start plowing the and go home. winter. Only expert skiers in top route in mid-April but rarely finish condition should attempt to The ultimate car-free tour around before July. Only the access road complete the 33-mile loop in a Crater Lake is on snow, when the from Highway 62 up to Rim Village single day, and then only when the park puts on its dress whites. is kept open all year.

Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 8 Snowshoeing at reaches of the canyon protected as and head up Canyon Baby it's cold outside! White River Wilderness in 2009. for a romantic snowshoe and Tommy Hough Erik Fernandez stargazing adventure. You’ll want to Oregon Wild also headed off a bring warm clothes and a headlamp You bet it's cold outside. So get off the couch and take advantage of road-building project for safety, but under a full moon the the winter weather, and join Oregon Wild for a slate of showshoe within White River lit up mountain and surrounding hikes to locales you may have visited in the summer, but look and feel Canyon itself, when a snowfields will no doubt illuminate entirely different in the winter. proposal was made to your way. re-route Highway 35 Wednesday, January 9th Saturday, January 26th

up and over the While this is a magnificent locale, Twin Lakes Snowshoe Hike White River Snowshoe Hike canyon towards Hood White River Canyon is the last place Carpools leave Portland at 9 am Carpools leave Portland at 9 am River. Fortunately, the you’ll want to be on a stormy day Call in sick, fight the winter bulge, Want to get close to ? Highway 35 bridge with open terrain and blowing snow. and stick with your New Year’s You’ll feel the mountain from here, michael o'Brien over the White River Always use caution, and plan your resolutions with this beginner’s but be sure to watch your step, was replaced instead. visit with safety as the foremost snowshoe outing along the Pacific because the view up the White River Pick a clear day to Crest National Scenic Trail in the Canyon will have you mesmerized. Perhaps the best place to snowshoe consideration. trek up the canyon and enjoy Mount Hood National Forest. on Mount Hood on a clear, blue sky Friday, February 1st fantastic, close-up views of the south Join Oregon Wild for a snowshoe Saturday, January 12th winter day is White River Canyon, Twin Lakes Snowshoe Hike face of Mount Hood. Better yet, trip to White River January 26th. Diamond Creek Falls which recently saw the upper Carpools leave Portland at 9 am pick a clear night on a full moon, Snowshoe Hike So you missed the January 9th trip Carpools leave from Eugene at 9 am to Twin Lakes because it was a This short, rewarding trek features Wednesday. Or your in-laws were two waterfalls near Willamette Pass still in town. Here’s your chance to Hardesty Mountain you can’t reach the higher elevation Following a narrow arm of Lookout as a destination, and doesn’t require make things right and join Oregon Chandra LeGue trailheads for Mount June or Point Reservoir and then Goodman a Herculean effort to get there. Wild for this fun, beginner’s Hardesty Mountain Creek, the rolling (but not difficult) Saturday, January 12th snowshoe outing (bring your in-laws if you want). because of snow, the trail takes you through a gorgeous Lost Creek Snowshoe Hike Saturday, February 16th easiest option is to forest. Ancient trees line the trail, Carpools leave Portland at 9 am Marilyn Lakes Snowshoe Hike head to the Hardesty and in the winter ferns, mosses, Join Oregon Wild for a snowshoe Mountain trailhead, mushrooms, and lichens offer a lush trek through a mossy forest and Carpools leave Eugene at 9 am chandra le gue just before milepost carpet to explore and enjoy while potential Wilderness area which Slide past frozen lakes and amble 21 on Hwy. 58. you’re dripped on from above. the Forest Service has regrettably through snowy forests on this Just outside Eugene lies a 7,000 acre proposed for logging along the moderate snowshoe trek through playground – the Hardesty Start down the trail and take the The trail is well maintained, thanks western flanks of Mount Hood. the Willamette National Forest. Inspirational and educational. You’ll wish winter lasted longer. Mountain Roadless Area. With 20 right-hand fork at about a quarter- to the work of local mountain bike miles of trails, it’s hard to know mile to stay on the Goodman Creek and other volunteer groups, and even trail. If you stay to the left you can Get more information on our snowshoe outings and where you can where to begin, but the winter in the winter it’s likely to only be www.oregonwild.org season often extends the courtesy of explore the South Willamette trail muddy in a few spots. rent gear at the Hikes and Events page at and narrowing down the options. When or go uphill on the Hardesty trail. keep checking back for our 2013 spring and summer hikes too!

9 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Uptick in controversial logging around Mount Hood Erik Fernandez

Targeting forests on the northwest flank of Mount Hood, the areas threatened by the "Good" logging projects projects has also helped fund additional Horseshoe timber sale include old-growth in a restoration work decommissioning eroding potential Wilderness area, essentially For the better part of a decade, the Mount roads, fixing and replacing damaged or guaranteeing the project will become the most Hood National Forest has been primarily inadequate culverts, and improving fish controversial logging plan on the Mount Hood working on restoration-based thinning passage. National Forest since the Eagle Creek sale in projects. The result of collaboration between the late 1990s, which resulted in a number of agencies, conservation groups, counties, While these thinning projects have tree sits and colorful demonstrations. land owners and others, these thinning ecological benefits, the word “thinning” projects focus on forests which had been should be greeted with skepticism: not all Recreation destinations at risk clear-cut decades ago, and were thinning is created equal. When one tree is left per acre, it’s not thinning. It’s just a Located near some of the most popular subsequently lacking in diversity, having clear-cut. recreation sites for hikers, bikers, campers, and been replanted with only one species of tree equestrians in the Mount Hood National (typically Douglas fir). By thinning these Forest, the proposed logging near the Sandy stands, remaining trees have less River would be in close proximity to the Old competition for sun, water, and soil Maid Flat area, Ramona Falls trailhead, the nutrients, and the forest is able to return to Cast Creek trail, the Horseshoe Ridge trail, a mature stage in a more rapid manner. photos by tommy hough Burnt Lake trailhead, Riley Horse camp, and While these projects haven’t always been the McNeil and Lost Creek campgrounds. perfect, the end results have been restored fter a decade of rather uncontroversial Fish and wildlife corridors at risk forests and jobs. Revenue from these logging projects, many of which have been Afocused on restoration, the Mount Hood The watershed has benefited from a decade’s worth of restoration projects, National Forest appears to be shifting to more Hood Wilderness and Bull Run Management year. Oregon Wild is already working with a including the removal of the Marmot Dam, questionable practices. Area, which doubles as Portland’s drinking variety of nearby land owners, sister and is home to runs of wild Chinook and Coho water supply. Logging the remaining intact organizations, and elected officials to prevent Oregon Wild is “red flagging” concerns with salmon as well as Steelhead. Logging on steep habitat in the area would significantly degrade this misguided project from damaging wildlife several proposed logging projects, including the slopes often causes erosion, and this type of these important corridors. habitat, as well as popular recreational hotspots Lava project on the north side of the Mount logging near the Sandy River would undo years along the Wild and Scenic Sandy River. Hood Wilderness, the Polallie Cooper project of restoration and harm the fragile runs of Timeline Engaging forest stakeholders and the public on near Cooper Spur, the Lemiti project on the these wild fish. upper Clackamas watershed, and the most While the Forest Service is in the early the importance of the area’s wildlife habitat and controversial of all being the proposed In addition, the proposed logging area is planning stages, we anticipate key decisions to recreational values is the next step in Oregon Horseshoe timber sale near the Sandy River. located directly between the protected Mount be made regarding the Horseshoe project this Wild’s process.

Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 10 Conservation Round-Up Steve Pedery

Protecting wildlife from gillnets to drop the campaign for Measure 81, so-called “lease lands,” i.e. refuge lands and instead threw their support behind a leased for private commercial The campaign to reform the use of compromise plan put forth by Governor agribusiness, received full water gillnets in the Columbia River has taken Kitzhaber. deliveries even as nearby wildlife areas many twists and turns in the last few went dry. The governor's measure BRYAN IRWIN Abandoned gillnets can continue to would relocate nets off Despite this, Oregon Wild made an capture and kill salmon and wildlife for decades. the mainstem of the impact as part of a coalition of over 35 Columbia River, conservation groups, which sent a letter promote more to the Obama administration and sustainable fishing gear, Congress demanding water for wildlife. and institute reforms to Oregon Wild members followed suit protect wildlife. After and weighed in, sending hundreds of ODFW OR-16, a young female wolf several successful public e-mails in support of the Klamath from NE Oregon. hearings, this measure refuges. Our work generated extensive is moving forward, with news coverage, and led to 20,000 adoption by the Oregon acre-feet of water ultimately being Fish and Wildlife provided for wildlife. Commission expected Oregon wolves reclaim lost soon. territory Another dry season for Klamath wildlife Oregon’s greatest conservation success months. Gillnets are made from nearly story – the return of gray wolves to our invisible plastic mesh, and Though 2012 was not a particularly dry state after being hunted to extinction indiscriminately kill not only hatchery year by Klamath Basin standards, over 60 years ago – continues to enthrall salmon but also wild fish from critically wetlands in the region’s National and amaze wildlife lovers. Protected by endangered runs. They can also entangle Wildlife Refuges were bone-dry by late the state Endangered Species Act, as and kill wildlife, including diving birds, summer. Regrettably, the Bureau of well as the advocacy of Oregon Wild otters, beavers, and other species. Reclamation again made the decision to members, canis lupis has continued to choke off water for wildlife in order to reclaim territory in our state. According As expected, the “Protect Our Salmon maximize irrigation deliveries for to state biologists, Oregon is now home Act,” better known as Measure 81 did commercial agriculture in the high to six known wolf packs, and over 50 Michel Herson White pelicans like not pass. In September the Stop Gillnets these need Klamath wetlands to desert. Even more egregious, the individual animals, including pups. feed, nest, and raise their young. Now Coalition and Oregon Wild agreed

11 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Wild Exposure: Snapshot of a Great Night Jonathan Jelen

Oregon Wild dose of gratitude also goes to the team at the Green Drop Garage for allowing us to turn their workspace Oregon Wild 2012 Photo Contest Winners into a literal campsite complete with a fire pit. tommy hough Thanks also goes to our sponsors and supporters who provided silent auction regon Wild celebrated its Eighth items and food and beverages: Andina, OAnnual Outdoor Photo Contest Art Heads Custom Framing, Bob’s Red with the organization’s first Wild Mill, Bull Run Distilling Co., Columbia Exposure event, held at the Green Drop Sportswear, Crave Bake Shop, Garage in southeast Portland on October Educational Recreational Adventures, 12th. Gerber, Hopworks Urban Brewery, Culled from hundreds of spectacular Leupold, Little Bird Bistro, KEEN, Momentum River Expeditions, submissions, four talented photographers Wildlife – Northern Harrier With Catch by Dennis were named winners in the four Mountain Rose Herbs, Next Adventure, Wildlands – Mount Jefferson by Jeremy Cram (Vancouver) Davenport (Portland) categories in this year’s competition, OARS, Pacific Pie Company, Por Que capturing the beauty of Oregon from one No?, REI, Uncage the Soul Productions end of the state to the other. and US Outdoor Store. Wild Exposure also delivered local food Finally, a thank you to all the Oregon and drink, a terrific slate of live music, Wild members and fans who braved the and a packed house of lively wilderness first rain of the season to come out and advocates, professional and amateur support the organization, and made Wild photographers, outdoor recreation fans, Exposure a huge success and a fun night. hikers, campers, fishermen, forest lovers, Over the course of the evening Oregon glacier climbers and whitewater Wild raised over $9,000 to support our enthusiasts. work and advocacy protecting and restoring Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, A special thanks to all our main sponsors and waters. for the event, particularly Pro Photo Waters – The Cauldron in Lincoln City by John Eklund Endangered Places – Newberry Volcanic National Monument Supply and Phresh Organic Catering, We’re already starting to make plans for (Portland) by Adam Jewell (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania) which provided delicious outdoor- the 2013 Outdoor Photo Contest, so themed edibles for the event. A big keep those cameras at the ready!

Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 12 2012 Accomplishments

gridlocked Congress and a still-sputtering • The Devil’s Staircase Wilderness proposal to • Defeated anti-wolf legislation in the Oregon • Protections for 21 miles of the Wild and economy didn’t stop Oregon Wild from protect a legendary waterfall and some of the legislature for the third year in a row. Scenic Molalla River advanced through the Achalking up some major successes in 2012. best old-growth forests in the Coast Range conservative House subcommittee. • As a result of legal action by Oregon Wild While we’ve listed a few highlights below, we advanced though U.S. House subcommittee and Connecting people to wild places don’t want to forget the small victories – saving out of committee in the Senate. and our partners, Oregon’s illegal wolf killing program remains on hold while we continue to a few acres of old growth in a timber sale • Led over 40 hikes and outdoor events • After a decade of advocacy the final challenge work with the state to ensure a wolf recovery appeal, funding restoration around Upper including service trips, photography workshops, to the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule plan which works for everyone Klamath Lake, showing a young hiker his first and plant identification trips which engaged was defeated – the rule’s protections now apply salamander – which we celebrate on a daily over 700 Oregonians in our ongoing to nearly two million acres of Oregon’s pristine • Shined a spotlight on the recovery and threats basis. conservation work. wild places. to recovering species such as wolverines. • We secured broadened • Volunteer wildlife monitoring project support for additional produced the first photo of endangered gray wolves in Oregon. from new key allies in Waters mountain bike clubs, local land owners, and ski areas • Continued to advocate for wildlife and resulting in a stakeholder wetlands in the Klamath Basin, resisting U.S. meeting called by Rep. Earl Fish and Wildlife efforts to reduce recovery Blumenauer goals and critical habitat for endangered fish. • Led the charge to defend • Organized over two dozen organizations from western Oregon forests from around the country to contact Interior Secretary plans to increase logging Ken Salazar to provide water for Tule Lake and through the semi- Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuges, peter blanchard privatization of 1.5 million resulting in water for thousands of acres of acres of O&C lands. marshes which otherwise would have been left Wildlands dry during the peak of the migratory seasons. Wildlife • Our proposal to protect the heart of the wild • Helped establish a new coalition to fight the Rogue River with 58,000 acres of Wilderness • Generated international attention on wolf growth of suction dredge mining in Oregon’s and 93 miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers recovery in Oregon through naming contest for waterways advanced through hearings in U.S. House and renowned wolf OR-7, now nicknamed Journey! Senate subcommittees. aaron theisen

13 Winter-Spring 2013 Volume 40, Number 1 Individuals who gave at the Monument level or above during fiscal year 2012 are listed below. Oregon Wild greatly appreciates the support of Major Donors all of our donors. We are especially grateful to Jean Frances Essex whose generous bequest will make a lasting impact for Oregon’s wildlands.

Wilderness Lucy Mead and Rick Dulcy Lee Marylynne Diggs & Valerie Christine and T. Max Reitz Karen and Walt Trandum Rich and Charlene Clark $10,000 + Robertson Elizabeth Tilbury Miller Christopher Parsons Kasia Quillinan and David Rick Skibinski Anonymous Marion Sweeney Eric Abrams Merlin Swackhamer Colleen Stewart and Thomas Engen Robert Schlesinger Judith Schwartz Sorrel Megan Gibb and Kurt Maier Gary Clarke Michael Horton and Sandra Partridge Katherine and Vern Robert Gamblin Michael Bishop Grace Swanson Allen David Johns Bensching Robin and John Gage $5,000 + Michael Greenstreet MD Helen Kennedy Michael Coe David Lively Katie Meyer Robin Jacobs Anonymous Molly Kohnstamm James Baker Molly O’Reilly and Stephen David Steinbrecher Katy Young Roger Galka Barbara Manildi Nathan Kennedy Jamie Ambrosini Lockwood Debora Goldstein Kaye McDonald and Janet Roger Mellem Julie and Curt Stevens Paul and Lory Utz Jane Beckwith Nancy and John Cooper Deborah and Peter Barker Metcalf Sandra Polishuk Julie Bailey Regina Housley Janet Danforth Rebecca and Brian Davis Noble Laurie Weiss Sandy and John Potter Robert and Mary Holmstrom Robert Jensen Jayme Burch Richard Chenoweth, MD Denise and David Newbold Linda Craig Scott Bowler Shawn Donnille Robert Millis & Anne Millis Jeri Janowsky and John Richard Hay Dennis Higgins Linda Shockey Shannon Kendrick Wally Sykes Fund of OCF Crabbe Rob and Emily Klavins Doug and Diane Livermore Linnea Nelson Shannon Rose Shannon Applegate and Joan Beldin Sandy Lonsdale Elaine Robin and James Scott Lorena Dornfeld Sharon and Gary Kish Wild & Scenic Daniel Robertson Joanne and Marius Wasbauer Sarah Wetjen Ethan and Vicky Medley Lynn Cross Sidney Friedman and Marilyn $2,500 + Steve Lambros and Laurie John Cannucci Scott and Angela Smorra Gabriel & Jill Willard Mabel and Wilbert Pool Walster Jean Frances Essex Gerloff Joy and Scott Linn Steve Raymen Gil Wistar Marian Woodall and Kent Stacy Smith and Chris Kristin Lensen and Dave Sue Schiesser Jude Emmanere Suzanne Fouty Gillian Hearst Franklin Graamans Whitaker Sue Wickizer and Dean Boyd Julie Sterling Thomas Verhoeven Gordon Feighner Marie Valleroy and Alan Stan Seleen Maud T. Kernan Fund Susan Hayden and John Justin Boucher Vik Anantha Grace Swanson Locklear Stephen Smack Beaston Katherine and Steve Pedery Wolfgang Rudolf Henry Holmes Marilyn Couch and David Stephen Kingsford-Smith Roadless Susan Sogard Katherine Cameron Ilana Sophia Axelrod and Family The Tomodachi Foundation Katherine Louise Cobb Monument Jan Wilson Mary and Thomas Bartlett Susan and Craig Markham $1,000 + The Zephyr Fund Kathleen Drake and Mark Jane Beckwith Mary Christensen Susan Sheythe Beth Caruso and Pat Clancy $250 + William Sullivan and Janell Lacey Jane Johnson Matthew Ryan Susan Florentino Brian Leitner Allen Eraut Sorensen Katherine Young Janet and Lee Tapper Molly Dinsdale Susan Filkins Charles and Reida Kimmel Andrew Kaza Kay and Jerry Mumper Jason Campbell Monica Rodal Tamara Smith David Harrison and Joyce Anya King and Alex Hill Refuge Kirsten Sommer Jason Golonka Pamela and Mark Terence and Lonnie Millen Beverly Andrews Linda and James Fenner Jeanette Skelton Feldhousen MacDonald Shumaker Debbi and Philip Paden $500 + Brenda Kame’enui Linda Park and Edward Felhousen Pat Jolly Terry and David Griffiths Dick and Jeanne Roy Anonymous Brian Rakowski Lloyd Slonecker Jeffrey Berliss Patricia Lovejoy Terry Butler Gary Guttormsen Barbara and R. Bastian Bryan Steelman and Claire Louisa and Standish Jim Arneson Paul Mort Tina Stupasky and Bryan George and Margo Earley Wagner Olberding McCleary Joan and Wes Carter Peanut Jello Lessley Jane Kendall Bart Eberwein and Jill Collins C. E. Win Francis Margaret Purves and Patricia John and Alicia Scott Penelope and Jack Wayne Englander Jim and Dory Delp Brandy Cassandra Candice Guth and David Kellogg John W. S. Platt Kaczamarek John Courtney Brett Sommermeyer Pogel Marietta and Earnest John Winter Peter and Theresa Kloster Every effort has been made to John Graeter Christine and David Vernier Carol Paddock O’Byrne Josephine and Peter Von Rahmana Wiest and Daniel ensure that this list is accurate. Karen Olch Christine Witschi Carole Most and Leon Mark Shipley Hippel Rhiger If you have any questions, Katherine and Stanley Vejtasa Daniel and Leah Frye Laptook membership@ Mary Belle O’Brien Judy Immesoete Rand Schenck please e-mail Kathy Jubitz and Steve David Collins Charles Swett oregonwild.org Mary Jo Wade and Jack Gray Junko Iwao Toll and William Raymond A. Mayer Jr. Hawley David Schroeder Charles Patton Toll Regna Merritt Leslie and Patrick Logan Donna Fritzsche Charlotte Rubin

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