Oregon Wild Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2

Can we end the Timber Wars in eastern ?

1 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 Formerly Oregon Natural Resources Council (ONRC) Working to protect and restore Oregon’s wildlands, wildlife, and waters as an enduring legacy.

Main Office Western Field Office 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 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 INSIDE THIS ISSUE staff member: [email protected] Old Growth Campaign Coordinator Chandra LeGue x 2 (for example: [email protected]) old growth campaign {4-7} Coordinator Erik Fernandez x 202 Eastern Field Office Director of Finance & Admin. Candice Guth x 219 16 NW Kansas Avenue, Bend, OR 97701 Oregon Wild Summer hikes schedule {8-9} Healthy Rivers Campaign Coord. Ani Kame’enui x 205 Phone: 541.382.2616 Fax: 541.385.3370 Development Assistant Denise Kayser x 213 Eastern OR Bill’s Excellent Adventures {14} Roadless Wildlands Advocate Rob Klavins x 210 Wildlands Advocate Tim Lillebo Development Coordinator Kristina Leamy x 224 Executive Director Regna Merritt x 214 Grants Coordinator Allison Oseth x 200 Conservation Director Steve Pedery x 212 Communications Associate Sean Stevens x 211 Wildlands Interpreter Wendell Wood x 200

Oregon Wild Board of Directors OWCLF 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 Mike Helm Gary Guttormsen Leslie Logan Leslie Logan Daniel Robertson Rand Schenck William Sullivan Jan Wilson

Oregon Wild is a tax-exempt, non-profit charitable organization. Oregon Wild Conservation Leaders Fund (formerly ONRC Action) is a tax-exempt, non-profit social welfare organization. Contributions to Oregon Wild are tax-deductible for those who itemize; contributions to OWCLF are not. Staff are employees of Oregon Wild, which contracts with OWCLF to carry out its activities. Portions of this newsletter are paid for by OWCLF. cover photo: Brett Cole An inquisitive mule deer peaks out from behind an old-growth This newsletter is printed on New Leaf 100% recycled, 50% post-consumer, FSC-certified paper with soy-based inks. P onderosa pine. Find out more about eastern Oregon forests on page 4.

Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 2 From the Director’s Desk A time of transition Regna Merritt

A legacy of achievement Oregon Wild under Regna Merritt

R egna Merritt, then Northwest Field As an activist, Northwest Field Representative, and Executive Director, Representative, circa 1996 Regna Merritt has celebrated many victories—both large and small—at Oregon Wild. Here are some highlights:

Dear Friends, fully enjoy family, friends, music - Oregon and across the Pacific and the amazing places Oregon Wild Northwest during eight very dark 1996: protection Oregon Wild is in a time of has protected! Board and staff, with years. You protected the places that – standing with hundreds of activists to important transition. After my many expert support from the non-profit wildlife need to survive and thrive. permanently protect thousands of acres of ancient forest from chainsaws ( C h and r a years with the organization, consultant TREC, are working hard And today, you and I are well LeGue) including over ten years as Executive to ensure a smooth transition. I will positioned to forever protect and Director, we are fully engaged in the remain in my position until we have restore 8.3 million acres of Oregon’s process of securing new executive secured a great new Executive old-growth forests east of the leadership. At the same time, our Director. . 1996 and 2001: Bull R u n a n d L i t t l e S a n d y mission, goals, and commitment P rotection Act – keeping P o r t l a n d ’s d r i n k i n g remain constant. I am so proud of what we have Because of you, Oregon Wild will water clean and pure (Sam Beebe/Ecotrust) accomplished together. always be my favorite organization. I For nearly two decades, I’ve happily will continue to support our common given most of my waking hours to My heartfelt thanks go to you for goals in every way possible. Indeed, Oregon Wild. Now, with exciting your advocacy and financial support. in this time of climate change, our 2009: Lewis and Clark Mount H o o d W i l d e r n e s s conservation victories on the horizon You contributed mightily to many mission is more important than ever. – gaining protections for 127,000 acres of and a great staff and board in place, successes, including legislation to And I count on you to support Wilderness and 83 miles of Wild & Scenic R ivers around Mount H ood and the Columbia the time is right to transition to new protect Bull Run, Opal Creek, the Oregon Wild as we move together Gorge (Tom Kloster) leadership. Little Sandy, into a bright future. Wilderness and Wild Rivers – plus 2009: Defeating the Bush administration WO p r logging plan – protecting over 2 million acres Last year, I made a quiet decision to you successfully defended amazing With love and gratitude, of western Oregon BLM forests from increased enter a new cycle, with time to more old-growth and roadless forests in clear-cutting (Doug Heiken)

3 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 Deep roots: How the old-growth forest protection movement has grown Chandra LeGue

In October of 1991, the Northwest For three-and-a-half decades, Lillebo wildlife we fought to protect them. forest wars had reached a fever pitch. has been doing whatever it takes to When biologists warned of the dire The year before, the federal protect our dwindling old-growth impacts streamside logging would government had finally listed the forest ecosystems. For years that inflict on threatened salmon and trout as a threatened meant driving all over eastern Oregon we worked to protect important species and a furious debate raged documenting old-growth logging, riparian areas. over how much critical old-growth challenging illegal logging sales in habitat to set aside. The future of court, and going head to head with Protecting our remaining wild areas is western Oregon’s ancient forests the Forest Service and the timber essential. But it’s not enough. Now, the hung in the balance. industry in public debates and the best available science tells us media. something new. We must also restore Over on the drier side of the the places and processes altered state—where spotted owls seldom For Oregon Wild, science has through past management. provided the guiding principles over ranged and the national media History of Abuse spotlight did not shine—a handful of the years. When ecologists said that dedicated activists continued their Wilderness areas and roadless forests Viewed from the air, both eastern and work to protect the imperiled were the last, best places for native western Oregon show the painful Ponderosa pine old-growth forests of Sandy Lonsdale Old-growth pine logging in the 1980s near Black Butte, Deschutes eastern Oregon. One of those activists National Forest. An estimated 10% of eastern Oregon old-growth Ponderosa remains. was Tim Lillebo of Oregon Wild.

A Bend Bulletin headline from that month reads: Foes of Augur Creek timber sale will file appeal. Oregon Wild and others were gearing up for a court battle to defend 2,000 acres of pristine pine and fir forest inside a roadless area. In the article, Lillebo was quoted:

“Whatever it takes to keep the area in a natural condition, we’ll do it.” Elizabeth Feryl Tim Lillebo, Eastern Oregon Wildlands Advocate, circa 1990. Whatever it takes. Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 4 legacy of 100 years of intensive understanding and appreciation of Sandy Lonsdale Murderer’s Creek, in the , supports healthy streamside vegetation and clean logging – a patchwork of clear-cuts ecological science by the Forest water in protected and restored areas. and a spider web of logging roads. In Service, the unsustainable practices of addition, eastern Oregon forests have the past have lessened significantly. long been starved of natural fire and subject to extensive livestock grazing Today, there is common ground that has seriously degraded natural between conservationists, the Forest vegetation and streams. Service, and some in the timber industry around two ideas: 1) Oregon’s In the 1980s, billions of board feet of old-growth forests are too few and too Chandra LeGue Chainsaws at work!? R e s t o r a t i o n o f old-growth trees were cut in eastern important to continue logging; and 2) P onderosa pine forests in the Metolius R iver basin can include removing small trees around old-growth.. Oregon’s federal forests. Well into restoration thinning in certain areas the 1990s, timber sales like the one can improve forest health, and provide at Augur Creek were the norm, as jobs and wood products for rural the Forest Service and timber economies for decades to come. What gets protected in What gets restored in industry continued to demand old-growth logs for Oregon mills, But common ground is not enough, the Wyden eastside bill? the Wyden eastside bill? despite the drastic reduction of older and the tenuous administrative Streams and wildlife – Murderer’s Creek Scenic landscapes – Metolius River forests on federal lands. By the time safeguards for old-growth forests could the logging receded only 10% of disappear with the next misguided Healthy streams and riparian areas in eastern The Metolius River is well known for its beautiful ancient forests remained across the 9 forest plan amendment. Oregon offer food, shelter and important travel old-growth pines and crystal clear water. The million acres of National Forest land corridors for deer, elk, beaver, and songbirds and forests in the Metolius, and many like it in eastern east of the Cascade crest. Need for Restoration provide the cool, clear water required by salmon Oregon, have been altered by decades of fire and steelhead. Under the Wyden eastside bill, suppression, grazing, and logging. Under the Wyden Oregon Wild has been working to A Welcome Change Murderer’s Creek – which runs through wildlands in eastside bill, dry pine forests like these would be a promote restoration of dense, young the Malheur National Forest – and hundreds of miles top priority for restoration. In the heyday of old-growth logging plantations and degraded streams west of other salmon and steelhead streams would gain there was virtually no agreement of the Cascades for more than a permanent protection from damaging activities like To restore healthy forests and watersheds, active between conservation groups like decade. But eastern Oregon forests— logging and road building. Current restoration efforts restoration would be encouraged under the new Oregon Wild and the agencies and especially dry, Ponderosa pine- to improve watershed health would also get a major legislation. Projects would include the removal of companies destroying forest habitat. dominated areas that have been most boost. smaller trees for restoration purposes, reintroduction of fire, and the enhancement of fish and wildlife Streams were muddied, landscapes drastically altered—are also in need of Provisions in the legislation would provide permanent habitat in and near streams. The Metolius Thinning carved-up by roads, wildlife species restoration. Restoration activities can protections for riparian areas and establish a Project (featured on OPB’s Oregon Field Guide in brought to the brink of extinction, include fuels reduction around homes minimum standard for future management. The new 2009) serves as a good example. The project was and our heritage forests converted to and communities, thinning small trees law would delineate buffers around streams and carefully designed to use low-impact equipment to dense, unhealthy plantations. that have grown in since natural fires wetlands where ground-disturbing activities wouldn’t thin trees encroaching on old-growth pines and last burned (and now pose a threat to be allowed. Outside of these areas, limits on road reduce unnaturally dense fuels. The project retained Fortunately, things have changed old-growth trees), and prescribed building and directives to reduce roads would also all old and large trees, and structures important for benefit streams. In addition, all restoration activities wildlife. These activities will improve forest health over since the 1980s. Due to consistent burns to restore a more natural fire must be science-based and benefit the long-term the long-term and enhance the scenic qualities that pressure from Oregon Wild and cycle. Watershed restoration activities recovery of the area. make the Metolius such a special place. others, and an increased like road removal and streamside

5 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 Wyden eastside bill vs. Status quo

Over the past decade, Forest Service management in eastern Oregon has generally improved. However, a focus on restoration is far from universal and old-growth forests still lack permanent protection. Under the Wyden eastside legislation, the role of science is enhanced and restoration-based management becomes the baseline paradigm.

Issue Status Quo Under Wyden eastside bill

Large and Interim policy should protect live trees over Protects live trees over 21” and gives implicit old tree 21” in most circumstances, but forest plan protection for smaller trees with old-growth protection amendments frequently allow removal of characteristics. Exceptions to protections are trees over 21”. defined by the science panel using best Brett Cole P rescribed burn near Black Butte R anch in the Deschutes National available science. Forest. Fire, long missing from the landscape, is an essential natural tool in maintaining forest health. Roads New roads, permanent and temporary, can No new permanent roads are allowed and be built with proper environmental analysis. temporary roads are significantly restricted. vegetation improvements to benefit An Historic Opportunity Temporary roads do not have to be Net reduction of roads is required, and all of fish are also needed. In December 2009, our decades-long decommissioned. new temporary roads must be fully efforts to protect Oregon’s old-growth decommissioned. In 2005, Oregon Wild initiated a forests and encourage ecologically- project near Black Butte Ranch in responsible restoration culminated in Restoration Multiple-use goals including timber, Sets new ecological restoration goals. All the Deschutes National Forest to work with Senator Ron Wyden goals economics, and forest health. logging and other projects must meet these serve as a model for future (D-OR) to develop the Oregon goals and improve forest and watershed restoration initiatives. The Glaze Eastside Forest Restoration, Old-Growth health. Forest Restoration Project Protection, and Jobs Act. This legislation demonstrates how old-growth pines, fundamentally changes the way eastern Science Scientific analysis, including effects on Current requirements still apply. In addition, meadows, and unique aspen groves Oregon’s public forests are managed. guidance endangered fish and wildlife, required at the management and planning specifically can be restored in conjunction with project level. guided by “Best Available Science.” A scientific advisory panel will direct and hazardous fuels reduction near The Wyden eastside forest bill builds homes and communities. Working constrain management at both the on common ground reached between landscape and project level. with the U.S. Forest Service, the conservationists and the timber Warm Springs Tribes, and other industry, while securing protections for community stakeholders, Oregon old-growth forests that Stakeholder Collaboration happens sporadically and with Collaboration defined and encouraged collaboration no specific guidelines. through early involvement of diverse groups Wild helped forge consensus conservationists have sought for on project development and in monitoring. around the project. Crews began decades. The legislation directs the implementation in 2008 with Forest Service to use the best available restoration thinning commencing in science to develop ecologically-based winter 2009. restoration plans at a landscape scale,

Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 6 protect sensitive streamside committed to doing whatever it takes vegetation, restore fish habitat, and to restore forests in eastern Oregon reduce damaging roads. It also ushers that can one day become the ancient Eastern Oregon National Forests in a new era of collaboration, Ponderosa forests lost to a century of The Wyden eastside bill will protect old-growth and restore forests across 8.3 million acres encouraging the type of consensus- misguided . of public land. map by Erik Fernandez driven process used in the Glaze Take Action! Contact Senator Project. Wyden to thank him for Oregon Wild has always done supporting this important whatever it takes to protect our legislation (S.2895) to protect wildlands, wildlife, and waters. In the and restore eastern Oregon’s years to come we’ll fight as hard as forests and ask him to move it ever to designate Wilderness areas forward quickly. Contact your and Wild & Scenic rivers, ensure Representative and ask them roadless areas remain intact, and keep to support it too. Go to www. our remaining old-growth forests oregonwild.org/oregon_forests standing tall to pass on to future to take action. generations. In addition, we’re now

Matthew Preusch () T im Lillebo explains the principles of forest restoration in the Glaze Project near Black Butte.

7 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 All outings are guided by experts and require online reservations. Please leave pets at home. For your comfort and safety, wear appropriate attire and bring plenty of water, snacks, and a lunch. Children are welcome but must be accompanied by an adult.

Saturday, June 19 Cloud Cap Saddle Hike #1 Leader: Margo Earley (Moderate to Strenuous, 6.0 miles, elevation gain 2,200 feet, Mount Hood National Forest) Hike through newly-designated Wilderness which burned during a lightning-sparked forest fire in autumn 2008, and see the dramatic re-growth in every direction. (Free and open) Greg Lief Sunday, June 20 Waterfall Hike Saturday, June 26 Leader: Rob Klavins Cloud Cap Saddle Hike #2 Leader: Margo Earley (Moderate, 3.3 miles, elevation gain 780 Oregon Wild proudly presents feet, Mount Hood National Forest) (Moderate to Strenuous, 6.0 miles, You can’t beat the free-flowing scenery elevation gain 2,200 feet, Mount Hood Oregon Wild on this Columbia River Gorge hike to National Forest) three signature cascading cataracts. Your second chance to explore the (Members only) sub-alpine forests beneath Mount summer 2010 Hood’s largest glacier. (Free and open) Molalla River/Rooster Rock Hike Visit the places you want to see with Leader: Sean Stevens Saturday, July 10 the people who know them best! Tidbits Mountain Hike (Moderate, 5.0 miles, elevation gain 1,100 Leader: Chandra LeGue feet, Salem BLM) Register for hikes and outings at Journey to the headwaters of the (Moderate, 4.5 miles, elevation gain 1,100 www.oregonwild.org Molalla River and explore the unique feet, Willamette National Forest) or call 503.283.6343 ext. 210 basalt formations of the Table Rock Hike up many-pinnacled Tidbits Wilderness. (Free and open) Mountain through spectacular old- Special thanks to The Mazamas and Willamette Week! growth on the way to an amazing mountain view, rocky outcrops and

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 www . oregonwild org [July 10, continued] Sunday, July 11 Sunday, August 1 Saturday, August 14 Hunchback Mountain to Great Opal Creek Ancient Forest Hike Tom, Dick & Harry Mountain Memaloose Lake Family Hike Pyramid Hike Leader: Regna Merritt Summit Hike Leader: Sean Stevens

register at Leader: Ani Kame’enui (Moderate, 5-7 miles, minimal elevation Leader: Sean Stevens (Easy, 2.6 miles, elevation gain 650 feet, (Strenuous, 9.0 miles, elevation gain gain, Willamette National Forest) (Moderate to Strenuous, 5.0 miles, Mount Hood National Forest) 2,900 feet, Mount Hood National Forest) Visit towering groves of 500-year-old elevation gain 1,600 feet, Mount Hood The kids will love this quick trip Cruise the ridge of Hunchback trees and marvel at the pristine waters National Forest) through a stunning old-growth forest Mountain for perfect views of both of Opal Creek. (Reserve with hike fee) Enjoy the pleasure of a perfect trail leading to a lake teeming with blooming wildflower and the view salamanders. (Free and open) Salmon-Huckleberry and Mt. Hood North Umpqua Trail Hike from a grand vista on this Wilderness Wilderness areas. (Free and open) Leader: Doug Heiken Saturday, August 21 hike. (Members only) Rogue River/Rainie Falls Hike (Moderate, 5-8 miles, elevation gain Mount Bailey Hike Leader: Gabe Howe depends on length, Umpqua National Saturday, August 7 Leader: Chandra LeGue Boulder Lake Hike (Moderate, 5-7 miles, minimal elevation Forest) (Strenuous, 10 miles, elevation gain Leader: Erik Fernandez gain, Medford BLM) Enjoy the scenery and the season 3,130 feet, ) Explore the spectacular Wild and along the famed North Umpqua River. (Moderate, 5.0 miles, elevation gain Climb one of the Cascades’ most Scenic Rogue River canyon’s unique (Free and open) 1,100 feet, Mount Hood National Forest) accessible mountains on this Discover the aquamarine waters of one challenging trek within the Crater geography, plants, and wildlife. (Free Saturday, July 24 of the Mount Hood National Forest’s Lake Wilderness proposal. (Reserve and open) Timberline Lodge & Mt. Hood best-kept secrets! (Reserve with hike with hike fee) Meadows Hike Leader: Wendell Wood fee) (Easy to Moderate, 2.0 miles total, elevation gain is minimal, Mount Hood National Forest) Two, slow go, wildflower identification hikes on the Timberline Trail and near Umbrella Falls. (Members only) Monday, July 26 Mirror Lake Wildflower Hike Leader: Wendell Wood (Easy to Moderate, 3.5 miles, elevation gain 780 feet, Mount Hood National Forest) Hike to scenic Mirror Lake for views of intricate wildflowers and the grand vista of Mount Hood. (Reserve with hike fee)

Greg Lief rob klavins Keeping it wild Featuring the supporters, foundations, businesses, and volunteers that make our work possible. This issue’s focus: new members. Kristina Leamy

can appreciate the value of people ruins the experience film and a book on the living in a place where the for dozens or hundreds of experience. land, air, and water are others. The campaign is Oregon Wild: What is your treasures and living among basically about protecting the Ways to favorite Oregon animal? people who feel the same way. equal rights of all people to Sandor: celebrate Oregon Wild: enjoy this place that belongs Salmon. They’re both What is your to all of us. inspiring in their single the wild favorite hiking spot in minded dedication to their Oregon? Oregon Wild: Why do you Tribute and journey and goal, and also a memorial gifts Sandor: think it is important to Whenever I get a good reminder to take it easy support Oregon Wild? chance, I head to Sweet and enjoy yourself as there’s cheryl hill Creek just outside Mapleton. Sandor: Oregon Wild is no sense in reaching your chandra legue It’s an easy hike where I can vigilant in looking after the goals at the expense of flaying Tribute gifts are a thoughtful way to take my parents who are in interests of the land and all of your body to bits on the rocks. celebrate a birthday, wedding, new Name: Sandor Lau their sixties or people with us who would prefer to Oregon Wild: baby, graduation, holiday, or any What is your Age: 35 kids, and still get some great continue living on it. occasion. They may also serve as a favorite Oregon plant? Location: Eugene exercise while enjoying miles Oregon Wild: way to honor the memory of a friend or Membership Level: Individual When you are Sandor: relative. Make a tribute or memorial gift of trail along a creek that’s Chanterelles! They Joined: 2008 not enjoying the outdoors, in honor of someone special in your life basically nothing but taste way better on pizza than what keeps you busy? to acknowledge their love of Oregon’s waterfalls. and western red cedar. Sandor: wildlands, wildlife, and waters. Oregon Wild: How long have the hikes surrounding it are a When I am not you lived in Oregon? close second. enjoying the outdoors, I am Join today and meet Visit www.oregonwild.org/donate or call Sandor Lau: Oregon Wild: planning my next film and like-minded people who 503.283.6343 ext 224 to make a Three years. Not Which Oregon tribute or memorial gift by credit card. outdoor adventure. I’m a share your interest in long enough. Wild campaign is most documentary filmmaker and You may also send us a letter including important to you? keeping Oregon a great the name of the person who you wish Oregon Wild: Why do you call probably my best known Sandor: place to live, work, and to honor, the occasion (if any), and the Oregon home? I went to Crater work is a film called play. name and address of the person you Lake for the first time last Behaviors of the Backpacker. Membership starts at Sandor: My two little would like to be notified of your gift. summer and my friends have It’s the story of my 300 mile only $35 and includes Please remember to include your own nephews are the most been wishing I would shut up walk across New Zealand exciting benefits at each level. name and address so that we may important things to me here. www.oregonwild.org/ about it ever since. It’s a getting to know the land and Visit properly acknowledge your gift. The After traveling the world and membership National Park, not an the people who live on it. My or call amount of your gift will be confidential seeing the impact of and tax-deductible to the full extent of amusement park. A next big mission is to walk 503.283.6343 ext 224 to mismanaged land, air, and the law. helicopter ride for four the Oregon Trail and do a become a member today. water in many countries, I

Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 10 Oregon Wild welcomes our newest members who joined March 31, 2009 - March 31, 2010. New Members Thank you for joining our cause!

Glen Esler Robin Jacobs Elizabeth Neighbor Smith Kathy Shayler Bryan Turner Toni Shearer Kathrine Turner Aron Faegre Molly James-Bartel Annette Newman Gabriel Sheridan Carol Turtle Bridget Fahrland Joana Jansen Emily Olson Lisa and John Silliman Christine and Charles Farrington Sarina Jepsen Evan O’Neill Robert Unrath Ian Smethurst Peter Feldman Jesse Kaminash Kelly O’Rourke Joe D. Smith Bethany Valachi Gavin Ferris Donna Kennedy Katie Pearmine Toni Smith Mark Van Ryzin Tim Foley Yasmin Khajavi and Aaron Lee Perlow Paul Spies Greg Vaughn Jo Foteff Poresky Renee Pirkl Simon Springall Alice Vincent Greg Kirschner Eileen and Peter Galen Jon Plummer Jennifer Spurlock Katherine and Randy Jeremey Wade Emily Garcia Beth Stebbins jerett dufresne Kohlschmidt M. Alex Reed W. Sterling Wall Shannon Gearry Broc Stennman Kirill Kurguzov Dawn Regier Doug Warr Bob Gillespie Aron Stephens William Aegerter Natalia Burgess Diane Rempe Richard L Weil Jeff Graham Penelope Lapham Lisa Renard Heather Sterling Ted Weintraut Marge and Ralph Alig Colby Buswell David Gray Mark Leas Joan Sterrett Vik Anantha Karen Roberson and Clay Jessica White James Chase Carolyn Greene Anne Leong Baumgartner Christine Stock Christen Williams Meadow Anderson Clint Chiavarini Sherrie Guilmette Adinah Lieberman Peter Stolpe Nancy Anderson Brian Robinson Alice Williamson Amy Chinitz Bill Guthrie Leslie Lihou John Robinson Darcy Strange Greg Winterowd Shari and Ted Anderson Roberta L. Chord Grace Lim Jacqueline Sutton M.E. Andre Molly Rogers and Christopher JoAnn Robison Cornelius James Withgott Matt Clark Hagerman Newton H. Loken Wendy Rodgers Asha Swem Dennis and Cam Wolff Kris Anell Patricia Lovejoy Andrew Coke Madelyn Hall Becky Rose Diana Talcott and Larry Hon Shannon Applegate and Daniel Rebecca Loveman Florence Zeller Jessica Colby Marie Hall Suzanne Rosen and Colin Park Kristi and Aaron Theisen Robertson Linda Lovett Philip Conti Victoria Hall Erick Russ Charles Thomas Jonathan Arlook Cindy Correll Janai and Tim Lowenstein Jeff Hanson Martha Rutan Nancy Toth Every effort has been made to Anthony Arnell Darcy and Kevin Cronin Sarah Luther Amy Haroldson Pepper Trail ensure that this list is Gloria Baca Laura Crosby Georgia Schell Richard Harris Stephen Madore James Sellers Brian Tryon accurate. If you have any Andrew Baird Caroline Crumpacker Kathleen Hart Sara Manifold Alexis and Andrew Turley-Byers Linda Baker Christine Cunningham and Pete Barry Shaw questions, please email John Hartman Chris Marks [email protected]. Nathan Baker Peterson Keith Hatch Tina and Mike McGill Stephen Baker Noralyn Danielle Peter Hazel Linda and Hugh McMahan Charles S. Baum Michael Davalt Martin Heim Adell McMillan Mechelle Beama Pam and Bob Davee Polly Helm and Scott Nelson Becky Megerssa Are your friends and family Harriet Behm Patricia and Michael Davidson Susan and Jurgen Hess James Melican Oregon Wild members? Thomas Bell Rande DeGidio Christopher Hill Susan Merrell John Bentley Pam and Milo Denham Robert Hoehne Anne Millman Take a minute to ask them to join you in Dale Berg Henry Holmes Terry Mills Naomi Derner supporting the important work of Oregon Michael Berger Devin Dimeo-Ediger JoLynn Holton David Mitchell Carey Black Claudia Dissel James Honeycutt Erik Mitchell Wild. Each new member increases our James Black Daniel Dizney Edwin Hooker Mary Montgomery ability to protect and restore Oregon’s Eric Boggs M Dorton Liz Howell Kelly Morgan wildlands, wildlife, and waters. Ask them Kristin Bott Wendy Hudson Jill Mosteller to become a member today by visiting Jane and James Brown John Earl Margot and Jon Hull Strauhal Catherine Muccigrosso www.oregonwild.org/membership Lenard Bryer Shirley Edmison Carol Hurn and Barry Hensley Barbara and Paul Muller or by Joseph A. Budde Madeline Edwards Pat Muller herbert everett calling 503.283.6343 ext 224. Judy Burchell Joell Ellis Leah Ilem

11 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 Creature Feature: American White Pelican Ani Kame’enui

photos by brett cole Unique characteristic: attributed to loss of habitat due to water During breeding season diversions and agricultural development. (spring), American White Bring the sounds Pelicans develop bright, In the Klamath Basin, pelicans can be of the Klamath to vivid orange bills, feet, and seen around Upper Klamath Lake and the your phone skin around their eyes. At basin’s National Wildlife Refuges, brett cole this time, the pelicans also including Lower Klamath, Tule Lake, and develop a distinct hormone- Clear Lake. Typically, pelicans nest in From the beginning of spring migration until the induced growth on their colonies that include hundreds of pairs. In tail end of the fall exodus, the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges are alive with the the Klamath Basin this pairing often takes bills. The growth or sounds of birdlife. The cacophony of thousands horn-like feature is usually place on Clear Lake National Wildlife of snow geese taking flight. The eerie “thunder on their upper bill, a couple Refuge’s nesting islands. Parents must pumper” call of the American Bittern. The hoots inches long, narrow, with a protect young pelicans from predators and of a Great Horned Owl interrupting the crisp round top. These horns are drought while the fledgling birds develop night air. shed after the birds have the necessary muscles and feathers to take mated and laid eggs. flight. When surrounded by plentiful Now you can take the wondrous sounds of the Everglades of the West with you wherever you water, Clear Lake’s nesting islands provide In focus: The American go. Head to the Oregon Wild website to an ideal protected home for these young White Pelican is one of our download a ring tone of your favorite Klamath birds. Unfortunately, with the 2010 low nation’s most charismatic bird call: water year in the Klamath Basin, the www.oregonwild.org/waters/klamath/ring-tones water birds. Some suggest pelican breeding pairs and young may face they symbolize the old West significant hardship heading into what is and the freedom and predicted to be a hot and dry summer. wildness of pre-settlement America. Like homesteaders of the early 20th Century, Creature: American White the American White Pelican (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos) Pelican has adapted to changing Where you can find it: environments, including altered wetland Klamath Basin habitats, where they originally thrived. By the numbers: Large white bird, about Though adaptable, pelicans have 11-20 pounds in weight, 50-67 inches in undergone a significant decline length with beaks of 13-14 inches on throughout the last century. Much of the males and 10-13 inches on females. population reduction can be directly A dry water year coupled with decades of Wingspan is about 95-120 inches. agricultural development have reduced habitat for the American White Pelican.

Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 12 Mark Timby Quiet modes of recreation have always been the preferred choice at Waldo Lake. still allowed and are available for Lake for current and future those who need them. Other generations. However, there are exemptions include emergency rumors that the pro-motor advocates landings or watercraft used for may take the issue back to court. Their official purposes such as search and last lawsuit was ostensibly based on rescue, law enforcement, and fire “states’ rights” but now that the state suppression. This rule will effectively has agreed to prohibit gas motors implement the U.S. Forest Service’s they’ll have to find a new argument. It plan to create the largest motor-free appears the new claim is that Oregon’s lake in Oregon. scenic waterway law (counter- intuitively) grants the Marine Board In an era of conflict between state less authority to protect special places and federal governments (think like Waldo Lake. health care reform!) it’s heartening to see the state of Oregon and the U.S. While you try and figure out that government working together to paradox, make sure to get yourself to protect Waldo Waldo Lake this summer and soak in the silence! Is this the year motors fall silent at Waldo Lake? Doug Heiken

Waldo Lake is the crown jewel of we’ve argued for the elimination of about whether Waldo is “owned” by the Oregon Cascades. Forming the noisy and polluting internal the State of Oregon or the federal headwaters of the Willamette River combustion engines on the lake itself. government. which weaves through the lives of the majority of Oregonians, Waldo Lake There are hundreds of lakes in Earlier this year, the state and federal exhibits globally significant water Oregon, and many in the Cascade governments reached an accord quality and beauty. Waldo’s deep blue Mountains, where gas motor boats about management of Waldo Lake. water is as pure as almost any large dominate. After years of discussion, Subsequently, the Oregon State lake in the entire world. Oregon Wild the Willamette National Forest Marine Board proposed and adopted has long advocated protection of finally decided in 2007 to phase out new rules to phase out gas motors Waldo Lake. In 1984 we helped to motors on Waldo Lake only to have and float planes on Waldo Lake. The secure Wilderness protection for this effort sidetracked by a pro-motor proposed rule has reasonable Brizz Meddings Two campers enjoy the now-quiet shores of Waldo Lake, at the edge much of the watershed. Since then lawsuit. The result was confusion exceptions. Quiet electric motors are of wilderness.

13 Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 Bill’s Excellent Adventures Alberta Gerould – a life of activism Touring the state’s best trails with the guru of Oregon hiking Featuring: Eight Dollar Mountain We honor the life of Alberta Miller and other friends to protect William Sullivan Gerould, who passed in January at the Bull Run and Little Sandy. She the age of 92. Alberta was an avid participated in lively demonstrations hiker, photographer, letter writer, while also researching and so infertile that the rock has so few nutrients that and conservationist. She worked cataloging reference materials, and plants have pine trees here are sparse and closely with Regna Merritt, Dr. Joe ensuring their preservation in the struggled to adapt. stunted. At first glance some Multnomah County Library. slopes resemble a desert. Alberta was a dedicated advocate As a result, Eight for the newly-designated Roaring Dollar Mountain is The mountain is so conical that it River Wilderness in the Mount an island of has virtually no creeks. Instead Hood National Forest. She and her botanical diversity, runoff oozes downhill through vast beloved companion John Saeman home to odd bogs fens, boggy slopes punctuated traveled far beyond their “backyard” and an astonishing with the baseball-bat shapes of forests. Together they enjoyed, and variety of rare pitcher plants – a carnivorous captured pictures of, threatened flowers. You can plant that creates its own fertilizer forests throughout the West. We sample the area by catching and dissolving insects. offer our condolences to her family with a half-mile Wendell Wood A Whitevein Pyrola (Pyrola while celebrating Alberta’s stroll along a new To drive here from Grants Pass, picta) clings to the slope of Eight Dollar adventurous, generous spirit and her Mountain. boardwalk. take Highway 199 south 24 miles. enduring love for Oregon’s ancient At milepost 24, turn right on Eight forests. Almost perfectly conical, this With the purchase of 650 Dollar Road for 0.9 mile to a 3-mile-wide mountain rises acres by the Oregon Parks marked gravel parking area on Contributions made to Oregon above the Illinois River in the and Recreation Department the left. Walk up a paved road to Wild in memory of Alberta Gerould: heart of the Klamath last year, all of Eight Dollar the right 200 yards to find the Catherine Ellison Mountains of Southwest Mountain is now in public or start of the 0.2-mile boardwalk. Stephen Gerould Oregon. Although it looks like non-profit ownership. a volcano, it’s actually an For more information about this P. Janye Lebsack erosional remnant that The landscape here is strange and other trails in the Klamath Laurel and Larry Roberts includes some of Oregon’s in many ways. Although Eight Mountains, check out William L. H. Gerrit Rosenthal oldest rocks. The reddish Dollar Mountain receives more Sullivan’s new third edition of “100 Catherine Vergara peridotite here produces a soil than 60 inches of rain a year, Hikes in Southern Oregon.” peter schÜ tte

Summer 2010 Volume 37, Number 2 14 Inside Oregon Wild We know our readers Staff comings and goings love to get outdoors into the wildlands of Oregon. Where in Many of our supporters know the state like the Oregon back of their hand. With that in mind, we’re introducing a new feature this issue: ??? “Where in Oregon?”

Think you know where Oregon Wild Board and Staff Back row (left to right): Sean Stevens, Daniel Robertson, Tim Lillebo, Megan Gibb, Susan Applegate, Ani Kame’enui, Kristina Leamy, Leslie Logan, Pat Clancy, Rand Schenck, in Oregon this picture Regna Merritt, Rob Klavins, Candice Guth, Mike Helm, Steve Pedery. Front row (left to right): Doug Heiken, was taken? Want to Chandra LeGue, Jan Wilson, Erik Fernandez, Gary Guttormsen. Not pictured: Jim Baker, Denise Kayser, send us a photo of Wendell Wood. yourself with the 2010 has been a year of amassed nearly a decade of 20 years experience as a newsletter and see if change for Oregon Wild. In non-profit fundraising non-profit administrator you can stump us all? February we bid a fond experience at museums in and a legal expertise honed (No pun intended!) farewell to Membership and New York. as a partner in the law firm Coordinator Cheryl Working with Kristina is of Aller Morrison Send your guess or a Lohrmann, who is now our new Development Roberston. In May, the photo to newsletter@ working to kick-start her Assistant Denise Kayser. Board welcomed to its oregonwild.org and you own non-profit Create Together, Denise and ranks a familiar face to could win great prizes. Plenty. In April, Kristina can answer any Oregon hikers, William The first person to Development Director question you might have Sullivan – author of the correctly guess the Allison Oseth left Oregon about membership, “100 Hikes” series and over Wild to pursue new donations, or other ways to a dozen books on exploring location of this issue’s opportunities in the Bay support Oregon Wild. Oregon. See a selected hike photo wins a copy of Area, and will be working from one of his books in William Sullivan’s Atlas of part time to coordinate We’re also excited to our “Bill’s Excellent Oregon Wilderness. grant work. welcome two new members Adventures” feature. We’d You’ll also get a copy of of the Oregon Wild Board also like to extend a belated the book if we publish Stepping into the role of of Directors. In January, welcome to Board member your newsletter photo in Development Coordinator Daniel Robertson of Leslie Logan and happy emily klavins our next edition! is Kristina Leamy. Prior to Yoncalla was elected to the trails to former Board Oregon Wild, Kristina Board. Daniel brings over member Chad Kromm.

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