Oregon Wild Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1

Mount Hood Forever Wild

1 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Wilderness {4-7} What’s Next {9} Formerly Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC) Working to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy. Evergreen Society Profile {14} Main Office Western Field Office 5825 N Greeley Avenue Portland, OR 97217 P.O. Box 11648 Eugene, OR 97440 FRONT COVER IMAGE: TOM KLOSTER Mt. Hood view from Owl Point Phone: 503.283.6343 Fax: 503.283.0756 454 Willamette, Suite 203 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 staff member: [email protected] Western OR Wildlands Advocate Chandra LeGue x 2 (for example: [email protected]) Executive Director Regna Merritt x 214 Conservation Director Steve Pedery x 212 Director of Finance & Admin. Candice Guth x 219 Eastern Field Office Director of Development Allison Oseth x 223 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR 97701 Wilderness Coord. Erik Fernandez x 202 Phone: 541.382.2616 Fax: 541.385.3370 Klamath Campaign Coord. Ani Kame’enui x 205 Eastern OR Roadless Wildlands Advocate Rob Klavins x 210 Wildlands Advocate Tim Lillebo Communications Associate Sean Stevens x 211 Membership Coord. Cheryl Lohrmann x 213 Naturalist Wendell Wood x 200

Oregon Wild Board of Directors ONRC Action Board of Directors President Gary Guttormsen President Pat Clancy Vice President/Treasurer Megan Gibb Treasurer Megan Gibb Secretary Rand Schenck Secretary Jan Wilson Susan Applegate Jim Baker Susan Applegate Jim Baker Pat Clancy Chad Kromm Gary Guttormsen Chad Kromm Mike Helm Jane Malarkey Tom Lininger Rand Schenck Jan Wilson

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Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 2 From the Director’s Desk Along the Way to Wilderness Regna Merritt

new threat, Oregon Wild staff wor‑ (who worked hard to protect Mount ked closely with activists, raising Hood, Soda Mountain, Copper wilderness as a solution. Partnering Salmon, Badlands, and Spring Basin), with municipalities, public interest law Congressman Blumenauer (for superb firms, and elected officials, we staved efforts on Mount Hood), and off immediate threats. We built trust. Congressman DeFazio (for years of We turned outrage into hope. work on Copper Salmon).

A wilderness, in contrast with Through our Adopt-a-Wilderness Individuals, organizations, busi‑ those areas where man and his works dominate the landscape, program, hundreds of volunteers nesses, and funders played key roles. is hereby recognized as an area refined wilderness maps. Over 90 Many, though not all, are featured in where the earth and its comm- businesses and 90 conservation groups this edition of Oregon Wild. Huge unity of life are untrammeled by helped us launch our statewide thanks go to our own hero, Erik man, where man himself is a campaign in 2000. Folks showed up to Fernandez, who led the statewide visitor who does not remain. —The Wilderness Act of 1964. speak at town hall meetings. Hundreds wilderness coalition. gave passionate testimony at hearings. It has always been difficult to legislate My deep gratitude goes to our staff, wilderness. Despite seemingly We guided legislators and media on board and families (1998 – 2009). insurmountable odds, Oregon Wild tours. Friends joined us to advocate in Yes, life happens along the way to has repeatedly pushed ahead, helping Washington, D.C. A well-coordinated Wilderness: love, loss, illness, marriage, pass wilderness bills in 1975, 1978, groundswell of support got results: wil- divorce, birth, and death. But you DARRYL LLOYD Lost Lake Butte 1984, 1996, 2000, and now 2009. We derness legislation was introduced in stayed with it, knowing the enduring couldn’t have gotten there without you! both houses of Congress. And then value of wilderness and wholeness for introduced again…and again. Getting the land and for future generations. Remember when development threat- the ball around an obstructionist ened the quiet side of Mount Hood? senator from Oklahoma was no fun. And, dear readers, big thanks to each Logging sales threatened the drinking But what a difference an election—or one of you! Your strong advocacy, water of Sandy and Hood River? two—can make. We finally did it! financial support, and green votes The U.S. Forest Service proposed made the difference. Congratulations an unlimited number of clear-cuts We thank all in the Oregon delegation on a job well done! in the Columbia Gorge? With each but particularly laud Senator Wyden

3 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 Wilderness: Today, Tomorrow, Forever Erik Fernandez

I recall my first project with On March 30th President Obama Oregon’s newest Senator, Jeff Merkley, Oregon Wild as a volunteer in 1997 signed the Omnibus Public Lands Act got in on the action with his very first —drawing some of the very first draft of 2009—finalizing protections for vote a “yea” for Wilderness protections. lines on the map for areas that would 202,000 acres of Wilderness and 90 later be protected as Wilderness. As miles of Wild and Scenic Rivers in It is also important to note that this volunteers, we got the “cushy” office Oregon. We won permanent Wilderness victory would not have in the attic that was roasting on protections for Mount Hood, the been possible without the support of summer afternoons. Columbia River Gorge, Soda our members. Folks like Kate and Mountain, Copper Salmon, Spring Mike McCarthy, Leslie Logan (see The previous maps of potential wil- Basin, and Badlands. That means the page 8), and countless others devoted derness were drawn in the 70s using old-growth forests, wildlife habitat, so much to the wilderness cause. You the accuracy equivalent of crayons. world-class recreation opportunities, are the champions who showed up to We were tasked with bringing that and clean drinking water these areas countless town halls, summits, inventory into the 21st century using provide will be forever protected. hearings, and wrote thousands of fancy GIS/mapping software. Today, letters demanding more protections for not only are the volunteer digs at the By protecting Oregon’s wilderness Oregon. Your contributions of time office much improved, but a lot of areas we are also taking responsibility and financial support got us to the water has passed under the bridge for doing our part to help curb global summit. We couldn’t have done it since then. warming. There are approximately without you! seven million trees in Oregon now Oregon Wild has relentlessly pursued protected by the Wilderness bill. These It was a powerful moment when, after increased Wilderness protections in trees store vast amounts of carbon— years of working to protect these areas, our state for the past ten years. Today, the primary pollutant responsible for I took my first steps into the new I’m thrilled to tell you those efforts global warming. wilderness. I will never forget that paid off. feeling. I hope you get out there and

MOUNT HOOD WILDERNESS MAP Oregon’s entire congressional deleg- experience the exhilaration of ex- On March 30, President Obama ation voted in support of increased ploring one of Oregon’s new Wilder- signed a bill adding 128,000 acres Wilderness protections, with Senator ness areas—seeing it as it has been for surrounding Mount Hood to the Wilderness system. Wyden leading the charge in the generations and knowing it will survive Senate and Congressmen Blumenauer for our descendants to enjoy. and DeFazio leading in the House.

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 4 Your New Wilderness Columbia River Gorge Clackamas River Wilderness You’ll find more waterfalls here than anywhere else in the country and no shortage of trails connecting you from one to the next. The This area is home to cedar trees that started growing over one Gorge has everything from spectacular, short easy hikes for the thousand years ago, when everyone still thought the earth was flat. family like Wahclella Falls to multi-day backpacking trip options like You may also want to check out “The Narrows” where the mighty Herman Creek. Most of the trails in the Gorge are accessible year Clackamas River shoots through a slot that’s only 15 feet wide. round and have some of the most amazing wildflowers around— some found nowhere else on Earth. ERIK FERNANDEZ Ancient forests tower over hikers in the Big Bottom Wilderness unit along the Clackamas River.

JAMEY PYLES The rushing water of Wahclella Falls is familiar to many a Gorge hiker.

Copper Salmon Steep hillsides covered with abundant old growth help the Elk River salmon run maintain its status as the most productive for a river of its size in the continental United States.

MIKE BEAGLE/TROUT UNLIMTED Old growth cedars blanket the landscape in the untouched forests of the Copper Salmon Wilderness.

5 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 ELIZABETH FERYL Soda Moutain Soda Mountain

Now that the area is protected it serves as a proper welcoming committee for those hiking into Oregon from California on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail.

Badlands/Spring Basin “Wilderness is a common thread that binds us to the generations that have come before us and to the generations that will follow.” –Brent Fenty, Executive Director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association and—along with Alice Elshoff and previous ONDA director Bill Marlett—a champion of the Badlands and Spring Basin

SEAN STEVENS Badlands Wilderness proposals.

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 6 STEVEN HOLT The rising peak of Pilot Rock stands sentinel over the newly designated Soda Mountain Wilderness. When Wilderness Becomes Real Andy Kerr

Congress did not create any “new” Areas—the 23,000-acre Soda Management to inventory its lands Spring Basin and all those “new” fence and broke our bread for the first wilderness by the enactment of the Mountain Wilderness in the Cascade- for possible Wilderness designation. and expanded Wildernesses on the time in the (newly established) Soda Omnibus Public Lands Management Siskiyou National Monument—there Eventually, BLM recognized a Mount Hood National Forest are real. Mountain Wilderness. On the ride Act of 2009. These areas were already is no more compromise. The same Wilderness Study Area and then later However, I have found that “new” back we plotted next steps to expand wilderness in character, just not yet legislation that gave Wilderness pro- recommended a Soda Mountain Wilderness becomes real in my heart Wilderness, Wild & Scenic River and Wilderness in law. The legislation that tection also provided for the voluntary Wilderness of a little over 5,000 acres. upon seeing their boundaries drawn National Monument protections for paved the way for the Omnibus, The retirement of federal grazing permits on the next Official Highway Map the Cascade-Siskiyou area. Wilderness Act of 1964, is neither the in and near the National Monument. Along the way President Clinton of Oregon. 11th Commandment, nor the 28th proclaimed the area a National Stay tuned. Amendment, but was a product of At the very beginning of my Monument. Most of the heavy lifting On a beautiful April Saturday, Dave Andy Kerr (andykerr@andykerr. political compromise. One of those association with Oregon Wild in 1977, for the Soda Mountain Wilderness and I rode horses in the proposed net) is Senior Counselor to compromises allowed livestock grazing I “discovered” the core roadless area battles was done by Dave Willis and Horseshoe addition to the Soda Oregon Wild. From 1976 to 1996 to continue in Wilderness Areas where that became the Soda Mountain the Soda Mountain Wilderness Mountain Wilderness that is just he was in the full-time employ of it existed at the time of designation. Wilderness. In 1976, Congress Council. Coming on line in 1983, across the California border (but part Oregon Wild, starting as a field For one of Oregon’s new Wilderness required the Bureau of Land Dave carried on the work of the late of the Greater Oregon Ecosystem). organizer and ending as Bruce Boccard and Marc Prevost, both I prefer going to proposed, rather than executive director. “Wilderness designation for the Soda Mountain Oregon Wild field representatives who designated, Wilderness to gain backcountry was ecologically crucial – and more died far too young. (For the record, familiarity for the next campaign. needs to be designated in the coming years.” neither death was work-related). Dave and I rode to the stateline fence –Dave Willis, champion of the In my mind I know Soda Mountain, (which is no longer needed) and dis- Soda Mountain Wilderness proposal. Copper Salmon, Oregon Badlands, mounted for lunch. We did cross the

7 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 When my husband Patrick and I I looked to the staff of Oregon Wild For the Love of the Wild started our family, my dream was for for inspiration to keep going when the Leslie Logan our two sons to experience the same times were discouraging. For over six ERIK FERNANDEZ Adopt-a-Wilderness volunteer Leslie Logan in what is now the Roaring River Wilderness. wild beauty in Oregon that I had years they worked tirelessly with known as a child growing up in individuals and businesses on both Alaska. I wanted to know that all sides of Mount Hood as well as our current and future children of Oregon congressional delegation—mapping, would have that opportunity as well. leading hikes, attending political gatherings, and doing everything While Oregon Wild has celebrated possible to protect our wildlands. many hard-earned victories, the recent passage of the wilderness bill tops Above all, they gave people like me a them all for me. Twelve years ago I vehicle to express our love of wild signed on with Oregon Wild to adopt Oregon and to join the effort to the Roaring River Roadless Area with protect our clean water, air, and the hope that it would be wilderness healthy forests. someday. The staff guided me through every step of my own advocacy work. Thank you, Oregon Wild! They celebrated my efforts to include friends and neighbors, including the Earth and Spirit Chorale and West Hills Friends church. How You Helped

regon Wild supporters and Wilderness protection has always been Oe-activists have sent in thousands of a citizen-powered movement, and postcards, written over 10,000 e-mails Oregon Wild can’t thank you enough to Congress, and attended dozens of for your dedicated action. meetings over the past five years. To sign up to receive future Wilderness e-alerts go to: www.oregonwild.org/about/take_action.

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 8 Our Plan: What’s next for Oregon Wilderness Steve Pedery

Working on wildlands protection at Wilderness that Idaho has, and less turn. After that? It’s time for Oregon Oregon Wild today is like playing for than 1/3 of California), and 202,000 conservationists—and Oregon’s a baseball team that just won the acres pales in comparison to the 5 Senators and Representatives—to World Series. Over 200,000 acres of million acres of Wilderness-quality think big. new Wilderness is sweet, but what do forestlands in the state. Left out of you do for an encore? the bill was the spectacular 60,000 The timing has never been better acre Wild Rogue Wilderness for protecting Oregon’s Yellowstone— Of course, the answer is simple: you expansion, an area that faces urgent the Siskiyou Wild Rivers. This region keep pushing for more. Before the threats from logging and mining. in southwest Oregon is the largest ink was dry on President Obama’s contiguous area of wild forests, moun- NANCI CHAMPLIN Wahclella Falls signature, we were urging Oregon’s Also missing were the old-growth tains, and rivers remaining in the elected officials to go further. Though forests and unique waterfalls of the entire state, and is renowned for its Help Us Plan for the Future the 2009 Wilderness legislation Devil’s Staircase area in the Coast spectacular whitewater, its prolific Allison Oseth protects many spectacular areas, it is Range—a place that has been salmon and steelhead runs, and a modest step forward. proposed for Wilderness protection diverse wildlife. Oregon’s new Wilderness is a gift to Oregon through a planned gift. Your for over three decades. Closer to future generations. Each of us will also planned gift will further ensure our Oregon continues to lag far behind Portland, a grassroots campaign to The 500,000 acre region is home leave a personal legacy—what will continued work to protect the best our neighbors in protecting wildlands grant Wild & Scenic River protections to over 3,500 plant species, 131 of yours be? For 35 years, Oregon Wild of Oregon. (we have half the protected acres of to the Molalla River is still waiting its which are found nowhere else on has worked tirelessly to protect this earth. Of course, even Wilderness special place we call home. For more information, or to inform SANDY LONSDALE Rare plant lovers, waterfall enthusiasts, and outdoor adventurers will all find something to like in the next batch of proposed Wilderness. status for Oregon’s Yellowstone won’t us of your intentions, please contact adequately address our deficit of As Oregon’s oldest and largest Allison Oseth at (503) 283-6343 ext. protected wildlands. (and, according to The Oregonian, 223 or [email protected]. most effective) conservation group, But, together with places like the Wild Oregon Wild has decades of success Rogue and Devil’s Staircase, it is an behind us and countless conservation ambitious first step on the trail victories in our future. We are the towards protecting Oregon’s natural organization you can trust to protect treasures as a legacy for future and restore our wildlands, wildlife, and generations. Let’s get to work making waters as an enduring legacy, and our it happen. work will be increasingly vital over the coming years. Please consider solid- ifying your commitment to a wild

9 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 Wildlife: The real native Oregonians Sean Stevens

FRANCIS EATHERINGTON These roadless forests are slated for logging in the Roadless: An advocacy paradox D-Bug timber sale on the Umpqua National Forest. To find Rob Klavins out more about roadless threats and Oregon Wild’s work to protect these wildlands, go to www.oregonwild.org. As an environmental organizer, most Sadly, that last bit isn’t true. from coast to coast — even here in of my experience has been “in the belly Oregon — that threaten roadless areas NPS/RON NIEBRUGGE A keystone species, sea otters are returning to Oregon after a 100-year absence. of the beast.” Since I came to Oregon Oregon Wild played a key role in the and are clearly disallowed by the Wild as the Roadless Advocate, I have genesis of the 2001 Roadless Area Roadless Rule. Your Oregon wildlife quiz of the day: prized fur. Then, in February of this been struck by a paradox. Conservation Rule, but we didn’t have Which ocean creature do sea otters year, sea-gazers spotted a playful much time to celebrate. Almost We recognize that we can’t afford feast on? creature with a crab on its chest, On one hand, this is the easiest cam- immediately, we began defending the to just play defense and fight for snacking away. Later news reports paign on which I have ever worked. rule against attacks by the Bush these places when they are under A. salmon revealed that the new resident of Roadless protections have the support administration and its pro- direct attack. That’s why Oregon Wild B. sea urchins Depoe Bay was not, in fact, the first to of everyone from hunters and development allies. Though only 7 is working proactively to clarify and C. Beluga whales return to Oregon in a century. environmentalists to businesses and miles of roads were built in inventoried reinstate strong protections for our religious leaders. On the other, this roadless areas across America, federal pristine roadless wildlands. These For those of us born in the last As the Eugene Register Guard has been one of the most difficult. protections have been weakened and places represent the last unprotected, hundred years (which I’m guessing is reported, local wildlife biologists had remain unclear. undeveloped lands in our National most of us), sea otters along the kept earlier reports under wraps, Roadless is old news. Roadless areas Forests. They are the places that sup- Oregon coast have been confined to fearing for the otter’s safety. The reason are protected and, especially with Based on that uncertainty, faulty port our quality of life and make our the history books. They were hunted to for that fear is what brings us to our President Obama in office, they’re science, and a changing political state unique. They deserve protection. near extinction (and exterminated in quiz answer: b) sea urchins. not under threat. landscape, projects are being proposed Oregon) as traders pursued their

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 10 Sea otters dine on sea urchins and in The continuing struggles to return sea turn keep kelp forests healthy from otters and gray wolves to their native overfeeding by the spiny echinoderms. habitats amidst human competition for In so doing, they compete with sea resources and space highlight the need urchin harvesters who sell their catch for effective wildlife advocates like to overseas markets. It’s another Oregon Wild. instance where conflicts between Take Action! humans and wildlife come down to Follow the Oregon WildBlog to ANGIE MOORE Ani Kame’enui describes the lay of the land in the Klamath Basin. dollar signs. keep up with the latest wildlife news across the state at Meanwhile, a human/wildlife con- Touring the Everglades of the West www.oregonwild.org/about/blog. flict with a higher profile is playing Ani Kame’enui out in eastern Oregon. In April, the first livestock depredation linked to gray wolves was confirmed outside On Friday afternoon, the last car environment through programs and The group also caught a glimpse of Baker City. Oregon Wild worked kicked up dust as it rolled along the action in the fields of conservation thousands of Ross’ geese as they rested with the local media to put wolves, Mazama pumice into the driveway of and education.” In the fall 2008, in the last of the basin’s shallow lakes. livestock, and the broader ecosystem Wendell Wood’s Klamath Marsh- PGC’s Conservation Committee As the weekend came to a close and into context. front property. Rustic, charming, and a hosted an Oregon Wild presentation the group made their way north, they ODFW wonderful retreat for a dozen women about the beauty and challenges of the left with a reverence for the basin’s from the Portland Garden Club, the Klamath Basin National Wildlife invaluable wetlands and the remark- cabin features a recovered sucker fish Refuges. The photography and stories able early morning whoop of a skeleton above the doorway, dried kelp inspired a trip this April, during peak Sandhill Crane. along the windowsill, found birds’ waterfowl migration. nests on the mantle, and a new set of solar panels. The caravan observed the good and the bad in the Klamath; from the wetlands The Portland Garden Club, founded of the upper basin and a bald eagle in 1924, is a diverse and fascinating nest on Lower Klamath to the harmful group of women, whose collective goal early-season commercial agricultural is, among other things, “to improve activity on refuge lands leased to and protect the quality of the private commercial outfits.

11 Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 New President, Old WOPR Charity Can Begin at Home Chandra LeGue Allison Oseth

We may have a new administration Oregon Wild, and our conservation One of the cornerstones of WOPR in Washington, D.C., but Bush’s partners, immediately filed suit to stop is the “recovery plan” the Bush legacy has been hard to shake. On the the WOPR. Also acting quickly, the administration commissioned for the last day of 2008, less than a month BLM used WOPR to initiate plans to threatened northern spotted owl. This before leaving office, the Bush clearcut several thousand acres of plan, universally assailed by scientists, administration gave a parting gift to mature and old-growth forests in the was challenged in court as well. In the timber industry by finalizing the Oregon Coast Range. early April, recognizing the flaws in WOPR. This plan increases logging of the plan, the Obama administration our carbon-storing old forests, reduces The Edson, Fairview, and Ginger decided to not defend the Bush plan stream protections, and shrinks habitat Creek timber sale projects all contain in court. Help to support the important conservation programs of Oregon Wild by for threatened wildlife species. beautiful old forests, in some cases, hosting an informal house party fundraiser of your own. As one of our the only habitat for miles around. This throws a huge question mark at supporters, you’ll help us get the word out to a roomful of your friends, Because the BLM did not consider However, the future of these logging WOPR’s legality, and is good news family, neighbors, coworkers—anyone who wants to help keep Oregon a the best science and failed to work projects is already in question, as the for the threatened owl — in need of great place to live, work, and raise a family. with federal wildlife agencies to look BLM plan stands on shakier legal more, not less, old-growth forest at the negative impacts of the plan, ground every day. habitat. Unfortunately, not everyone Our goal is to raise $1,000 at each event—money that helps Oregon Wild CHANDRA LEGUE Trees up to 160 years old are on the chopping block in sales like the Edson Regen shown here. seems to recognize the WOPR’s protect the state you love! Hosting an Oregon Wild house party is easy, and failings. Despite the fact that the plan we can help! For more information on what’s involved, look for our House www.oregonwild.org/houseparty is mired in controversy and would Party Planning Kit online at , or damage western Oregon’s quality of contact Director of Development Allison Oseth at life, the Oregon Legislature consid- [email protected] or 503-283-6343 ext 223. ered a resolution to support it.

Take Action! Thanks to hundreds of concerned Our local elected officials aren’t Call Senator Wyden today at citizens like you speaking out against the only ones falling for the 503.326.7525 or head to the resolution and the WOPR, the WOPR scam. Senator Wyden’s www.oregonwild.org to tell him proposal died before a vote. With recently released Old Growth to protect all mature and Oregon Wild and thousands of Protection Act would allow old-growth forests. activists continuing to defend our western Oregon BLM trees up to forests from the WOPR, we can 160 years old—older than the ensure that the Bush legacy becomes State of Oregon—to be logged. a thing of the past.

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 12 Oregon Wild is excited to announce the unveiling of our new tiers of membership. At each level of giving you can increase your New Membership Levels commitment to our special state and receive great benefits. (All tangible benefits may be waived for full tax-deductibility.)

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Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 SCOTT BOWLER Evergreen donor Scott Bowler doesn’t just support protection of Oregon’s wildlands; he gets out and enjoys them. Protecting Oregon—once a month Alaina Smith

Oregon Wild greatly values its between $5 and $15. These gifts have Scott donates to multiple charities, but as likely to let it slide for a month and “Campaigns that protect the water Evergreen Society members, donors already totaled more than $2,000. says, “I still contribute only to environ- thus skip renewing some mem- supply, food sources, and places to play who use automated giving by bank mental groups, because if we screw up bership for a year or more. I am sorely and relax are at the core of why I sup‑ account or credit card to give monthly A self-described “life-long nature nut,” our planet too badly, nothing much tempted to drop a few renewal notices port the groups that I do.” Oregon or quarterly to Oregon Wild. Long- Scott earned the nickname “Captain else will matter.” in the recycling when times are tough, Wild is proud to have Scott among term, consistent giving provides Ecology” and started the first large- but I never think about canceling our supporters. reliable income to help protect our scale recycling center in Los Angeles He loves the convenience of auto- the majority of those renewals that To join the Evergreen Society, wildlands, wildlife, and waters. County. He spent his post-college mated giving. “It’s so much easier than are automatic.” contact Cheryl, our Membership years hiking, climbing, and cycling remembering to write checks!” he says. Coordinator, at (503) 283-6343 People like Scott Bowler help us reach throughout North and Central “I just budget for the amounts I can Automated giving also means Scott x 213 or [email protected]. our goals. Since 1996, Scott has been America. Even now as Scott teaches afford and have as many as I can set is regularly helping protect and pre- giving modest monthly donations to science, he still finds time to hike, up for monthly giving. That way I can serve the places he loves. “It’s so vital Oregon Wild (and to Oregon Wild canoe, and take trips dedicated to also ‘just say no’ when I can’t afford to to have fresh, pure, safe water and a Conservation Leaders Fund) of service of wilderness areas. contribute to another group, nor am I place nearby to play,” says Scott.

Spring/Summer 2009 Volume 36, Number 1 14 Donor List

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