Cascadia Forest Defenders

Tree Climb Trainings

2012-01-20T18:19:00.000-08:00

Every Tuesday from 11am-1pm
The Lorax Manner, 1648 St.

Learn basic and advanced tree climbing skills in a safe environment. No experience required, all equipment provided.

Earth First! Organizer's Conference

2012-01-11T11:52:00.000-08:00

http://saltlakeearthfirst.wordpress.com/

Canyons of wind-carved rocks filled with ancient voices call to earth warriors to gather for 2012 Earth First! Organizers Conference and Winter Rendezvous. Come explore Utah’s wild raw beauty that is under constant threat from the ever-hungry beast of progress! Join us for early spring in the desert, the breath between the departure of the snow and the blooming of the flowers to soak your bones in the ancient waters of Mystic Hot Springs. In the quiet between winter and spring we honor our past, examine the present, and create a vision for a wild and free future. The OC will have kickoff with the Night to Howl featuring Earth First!’s own Warrior Poets. The Organizers Conference, Thursday thru Saturday afternoon, is a meeting of earth warriors to strategize on how we most effectively create a world where the Earth is First! Then Saturday night, after three days of meetings, it’s time to stretch and play at Winter Rondy . It kicks off Saturday with fire and music (yes, that means you should bring your inspiration and instruments!) with Sunday and Monday filled with workshops, action planning, and ......

A few notes on the site: Mystic Hot Springs (mystichotsprings.com) is welcoming Earth First! with minimal compensation that includes work trade. For those of you who want to do something besides sit in meetings and go to workshops there will be a need for folks to care for the place we gather. If you are interested in being part of the work trade crew contact Stan at permipreacher@gmail.com volunteer on site. Also, everyone should bring a little extra cash for the magic hat to further support our host in his efforts to care for this magical site. Monroe, UT is a small, fairly conservative community that we should be mindful of. Please absolutely no shoplifting in the community and treat those you encounter with respect. Always remember, regardless of what you may think of their politics or beliefs we are guests in their home. It will in the low 20's to 30's at night and 40’s-60’s during to day. Dress appropriately and bring good bedding. A pad and/or ground cloth is particularly useful. For those in need there are a few rustic indoor sleeping places. Please contact us if you would like one of these and, if possible, be prepared to give a little extra for indoor digs.

To get involved with organizing join the 2012 Organizers list by sending an email to: 2012-efoc-organizers@googlegroups.com

For the most updated information and rideshare board go to: efoc2012.webstarts.com

For questions and other communication email: skillstour@gmail.com

And if you are not email/computer friendly (aka luddite) and need information call: (406) 721-8427

MORE TRAININGS!

2012-01-04T12:04:00.000-08:00

Did you miss our non-violent direct action training last month? Need a refresher?

NVDA training TOMORROW 11 a.m. to 3:30.

Occupy V, 1274 W. 7th Avenue

More info on the facebook

Direct Action Training

2011-12-08T21:39:00.000-08:00

This workshop, presented by Cascadia Forest Defenders, takes you through the process of all that goes into a successful direct action. It will include a history of DA in the movement, the roles inside affinity groups, the use of consensus process, managing conflict and deescalating situations, soft blockading, and legal implications. This is an interactive workshop that encourages but doesn't require your participation in various DA role plays.

Timber Barons are the 1%

2011-11-28T21:00:00.000-08:00

Occupy Eugene meets Forest Defense!
(as posted on EF! Newswire)

Cascadia Forest Defenders and marchers with Occupy Eugene shut down Umpqua Bank yesterday from noon to close. Activists raised a banner reading “Stumpqua funds clearcuts,” and soft blockaded both customer entrances. Umpqua, which was the first stop in a series of N17 Occupy Eugene bank closures, chose to lock its doors rather than call on law enforcement.

Umpqua Bank has a long history of providing low interest loans to Oregon’s timber barons. The bank is most infamously tied to Roseburg Forest Products’ sole owner, Allyn Ford, who is also the chairman of Umpqua Bank’s board of directors. Over the last year RFP logged hundreds of acres of Cascadia’s ancient temperate rainforests and laid off over 200 Oregon mill workers. In targeting Stumpqua, activists hope to thwart attempts of green and local washing on the part of bank executives.

After the Umpqua action, marchers proceeded on to U.S. Bank, Bank of America, and Chase. Between the three banks, law enforcement arrested 17 activists for similar soft blockades.

Important Rally, 10-11, Salem, Oregon.

2011-09-21T20:09:00.000-07:00

Hey there fellow Defenders of Forests Cascadian!

You see above a beautiful poster for an awesom event coming soon. This has been put together by a group called Friends of Oregon's Forests, and looks to be pretty great. CFD will be there, and we hope you will be too. Coming from Eugene area or Portland? Jump on a BUS full of activists! Check em out online at www.wearefoof.wordpress.com

N.E.S.T. surveying in the Elliott this fall!

2011-09-21T19:51:00.000-07:00

NEST surveying...in the fall?

This October, join the Northwest Ecosystem Survey Team in the Elliott State Forest! We will climb in search of the marbled murrelet, a rare sea bird that nests in the coastal temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest.

Currently, timber companies clearcut up to 500 acres of ancient forest in the Elliott each year. Starting in 2012, the Oregon Department of Forestry will sell up to 850 acres per year. NEST hopes to slow the destruction of the murrelets' waning habitat by finding and reporting nest sites that should be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Fall is the best time to climb survey—immediately after nesting season, but before the rainy season washes away all of the evidence.

Come join us for our pilot season to save the Elliott. We are especially searching for experienced climbers, though all levels and types of experience are welcome. Can you id birds? Are you an archer, or a mycologist? Do you thrive on a deep and unending love for wilderness? Are you really good at setting up tarps? We would love to hang out in the woods with you!

Interested volunteers should come to our orientation at 10:30 a.m. September 30th at 1648 Alder, Eugene, in front of the Lorax Manor. We will hold basic climb trainings and discuss survey methods. The first caravan departs October 1st. If you would like to come later in the month, or if you will need temporary housing in Eugene, give us a ring.

What to bring:

While we hope for a fairly dry October, the Elliott is a rainforest. Expect rain. All volunteers should come with raingear and layers of wool or synthetic clothing. We will be hiking off road through gnarly terrain, so a good pair of boots is essential. Don't forget your sleeping bag, and consider bringing your own tarp or tent. Other recommended items include: headlamp, compass, personal climb gear, water bottle, personal dishware, snack food, water filter, and multiple pairs of wool socks. NEST can accommodate volunteers without personal food, gear, or financial resources, but if you can contribute to our daily costs it would certainly be appreciated.

For volunteer or media inquiries, contact Sarah: (860) 367 7641. argempi617@gmail.com

Forest Defenders Lock Themselves Inside ODF Office To Protest New Clear Cut Plan

2011-08-02T00:42:00.000-07:00

At the culmination of the annual Trans and Women's Action Camp, activists occupied the regional Oregon Department of Forestry office in Molalla. Three members of the camp locked themselves together inside the office using modified pipes. Currently the trio is refusing to leave until the Oregon Department of Forestry revoke their support for the 2011 Elliott State Forest Management Plan. Today is the last opportunity for citizens to comment on the plan.

Activists involved in the action criticized the plan for opening up areas to logging which were previously off limits. They also criticized the plan for increasing clear cutting to boost local timber jobs while not making any decisive moves to regulate or even monitor the large timber export industry which ships logs and jobs overseas.

The Trans and Women's Action Camp, or TWAC, was formed out of a need to make space for marginalized identities that otherwise may not be represented within the broader push for environmental justice. This action is organized and carried out by women and trans identified
people. "As a trans person, my affinity with forests stems from the harsh reality that both of us are targets of oppression for merely existing. Systems of oppression such as patriarchy, homophobia, and transphobia are inherently linked to the violence towards forests such as the Elliott. I am in solidarity with all forms of resistance against the destruction of marginalized identities, human and non-human." says Samuel Morrissey.

Meredith Cocks of Portland, OR said, "It's absolutely devastating to walk into the middle of a clearcut in the Elliott and know that after decades of fighting for forest protection this sort of logging is still accepted on public lands. This is some of our last intact coastal rainforest, a precious place that deserves our respect, not to be decimated by the ODF."

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UPDATE TUESDAY EVENING: The three people locked down were arrested at around 3:30PM and are being held on $7,000 bail at Clackamas County Jail and waiting for their arraignment Tuesday morning at 10AM. Show up to support these folks. More info at:

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2011/08/409591.shtml?discuss#388453

They are not being given vegan food! Call (503)655-8331 to request that Sara Silvestro (vegan), Meredith Cocks (vegetarian), and Danielle Hauser (vegan) are given food of their choice. Wait through the automated message to talk to a person.

Treesits Down But Fight for the Elliott Continues

2011-08-01T20:05:00.001-07:00

As of Thursday afternoon, the three who remained at the blockades in the trees have been forced out of the trees and arrested. They are all currently out and safe. Media reports that they 'came down willingly' don't give the details of platforms, gear, food, and water being removed by platform boom, a tree being delimbed with activists in the tree, requests to stop running loud equipment so that an activist could safely move around in a tree being ignored, and threats of cutting activists descent line. Expect a more thorough report from the last hours of the (First) Battle of the Millicoma soon.
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Meanwhile, forest defense in the Elliott State Forest and around the state won't stop. This is only the beginning of our campaign to get the governor to reject the 2011 Elliott State Forest Forest Management Plan and to change logging practices in the state of Oregon in ways that protect the water, air, forests, forest-dwelling creatures and humans, and future economic viability of the state of Oregon.

Thank you so much to all who have stood with us since the action camp. We are glad to be fine rogue bulldozers and extractions aside. Unfortunately, law enforcement made it very clear that the trees we occupied at Elkhorn Ranch were maliciously cut Friday morning and the news has reported that entire sale is under the threat of the as within two weeks.

Are you with us? If so, we'd love to hear from you at forestdefensenow@gmail.com. Subscribe to our list to hear updates on events and ways to plug in or, if you can, donate! We need gear, food, and gas money to continue to put ourselves on the line to fight for the forests. Checks can be sent to Cascadia Earth First, P.O. Box 96, Eugene OR 97440.

Forest Defense in the Elliott

2011-07-28T12:58:00.000-07:00

Hey ODF!

We're Back, and we will keep coming back!

Direct Action in the Elliott!

2011-07-26T17:22:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, July 26^th, Coos County , Oregon

Early Tuesday morning a number of activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders, and Cascadia Earth First! unfolded a series of road blockades in the Elliott State Forest, located in Coos County, closing access points to timber sales along the west fork of the Millicoma River. The blockades consist of an array of Tree-sits and ground level locking devices. The activists are prepared to block logging in this sensitive eco-system for as long as necessary.

The sales are all slated for clear-cut logging, and are areas of native forest that have never before seen a chain saw. They exist on steep slopes where erosion from logging threatens to further damage Salmon habitat, as well as devastate already dwindling numbers of protected species such as the Marbled Murrelet and the Northern Spotted Owl. Native forests refers to forest that has never before been logged, but can include forests that have experienced wildfire. Please see www.forestdefensenow.com for regular updates on this developing situation.

“For decades, activists in the northwest pushed the forest service into changing their ways for the better, and we have seen dramatic improvements in the types of projects federal agencies are working on, The Oregon Department of Forestry has taken the opposite route, showing total disregard for life, and the health of these ecosystems, this is the beginning of a long term campaign that aims to see state lands managed for sustainability, bio-diversity and the overall health of the ecosystem, we will keep the pressure on in The Elliot, and all over the state of Oregon from this point forward” –Jason Gonzales, Cascadia Forest Defenders.

“The Oregon Department of Forestry’s 2011 Implementation Plan aims to increase clearcutting in the Elliot from 500 acre to 850 acres per year,” says Meredith Cocks of Cascadia Forest Defenders. “The clearcutting in the Elliot is the worst in the state. They would never allow cuts like this on federal forest.”

“Some of the biggest trees in the state and some of the last native forests are on the chopping block here in the Elliot. Oregonians would be horrified if they saw the wholesale massacre that happens in this public lands year after year,” says Ben Jones of Cascadia Forest Defenders.

Activists in the canopy have issued the following list of demands for the State Land Board and the Oregon Department of Forestry that they say must be met before they will willingly leave the forest:

1. Cease all logging of native forests on public land in Oregon.

2. Put a moratorium on all logging and road construction in the Elliot State Forest

3. Halt the export of raw logs from all Oregon forest, public or private

4. Reject the Oregon Department of Forestry’s 2011 Implementation Plan for the Elliot State Forest.

5. Stop the use of herbicides and the slaughter of the native mountain beaver.

This action serves as a culmination of last weekend’s Forest Defense Action Camp. Around 70 people from around Coos and Douglas county, as well as other areas of Oregon and the country gathered near the Elkhorn Ranch ORV Park in the Elliot State Forest for the three day camp. Attendants were educated on current threats to the Elliot State Forest as well as provided with trainings to engage in non-violent direct action, climbing and more.

Make a statement!

2011-07-21T20:53:00.000-07:00

The Oregon Department of Forestry is presenting the draft for their new
Elliott State Forest plan, which (among other ugly things) will increase
the area clearcut annually by 350 acres. Please stop by North Bend on your
way to action camp and tell those a-holes what you think about their plan.

Friday, July 22
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
North Bend Public Library
1800 Sherman Ave., North Bend

Follow this link for more info about the draft.

Cascadia Forest Defenders Action Camp July 22nd - 25th 2011

This July activists are invited to to support direct action in defense
of a beloved, ancient coastal rainforest, the Elliott State Forest.
Under the watchful mismanagement of the Oregon Department of Forestry,
timber barons are actively razing this rare, 93,000 acre cathedral of
previously untouched wilderness. It's time for friends of Cascadia to
take a stand against the dozens of clearcuts on the table for 2011-2012.

Workshops will include: climb trainings, backwoods stealth and evasion,
know your rights, and anti-oppression.

Please come self-sufficient for camping with food and water/water filtration system.
We will have some resources but not for everyone and town will be an hour away.
You can use the rideshare board at the top of the blog for carpooling.
Stragglers can meet up outside of the Eugene Growers Market,
off of 5th near the Amtrak Station, on Friday a.m.
We will have directions there and possibly open seats.
Call Thomas at (530)521-4991 if you have other questions.

DIRECTIONS!
there will be some flagging

From Eugene.
Drive South on I-5 for 30 miles
Take exit 162 for Drain/Elkton
Drive Highway 38/"Umpqua Highway" for about 40 miles
Turn left onto Loon Lake Road
Stay on Loon Lake Road past Loon Lake, about 9 miles
Turn right on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
Stay on this road for a long time, don't take any turns or forks.
Drive slow and careful on loose gravel.
Turn right at 2300, called "Beaver Creek Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

From Roseburg or South
Drive North on 1-5 about 12 miles
Take exit 136 for Sutherlin/Elkton
Drive Highway 138 until it merges with Highway 38, Umpqua
Highway. Stay on 38 towards Reedsport.
Turn left onto Loon Lake Road
Stay on Loon Lake Road past Loon Lake, about 9 miles
Turn right on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
Stay on this road for a long time, don't take any turns or forks.
Drive slow and careful on loose gravel.
Turn right at 2300, called "Beaver Creek Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

From Coos Bay
Take Highway 241 East to Allegany, about 12 miles
From Allegany get on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
The road will go through some state forest land along Marlow
creek, then through some private timber land that will be
distinct, on the right, because of gnarly clearcuts and tree farms
Back on public land, look for road 2300 on the left "Beaver Creek
Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

Cascadia Forest Defenders Action Camp July 22nd - 25th 2011

2011-07-04T00:50:00.000-07:00

This July activists are invited to to support direct action in defense
of a beloved, ancient coastal rainforest, the Elliott State Forest.
Under the watchful mismanagement of the Oregon Department of Forestry,
timber barons are actively razing this rare, 93,000 acre cathedral of
previously untouched wilderness. It's time for friends of Cascadia to
take a stand against the dozens of clearcuts on the table for 2011-2012.

Workshops will include: climb trainings, backwoods stealth and evasion,
know your rights, and anti-oppression.

Please come self-sufficient for camping with food and water/water filtration system.
We will have some resources but not for everyone and town will be an hour away.
You can use the rideshare board at the top of the blog for carpooling.
Stragglers can meet up outside of the Eugene Growers Market,
off of 5th near the Amtrak Station, on Friday a.m.
We will have directions there and possibly open seats.
Call Thomas at (530)521-4991 if you have other questions.


DIRECTIONS!
there will be some flagging

From Eugene.
Drive South on I-5 for 30 miles
Take exit 162 for Drain/Elkton
Drive Highway 38/"Umpqua Highway" for about 40 miles
Turn left onto Loon Lake Road
Stay on Loon Lake Road past Loon Lake, about 9 miles
Turn right on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
Stay on this road for a long time, don't take any turns or forks.
Drive slow and careful on loose gravel.
Turn right at 2300, called "Beaver Creek Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

From Roseburg or South
Drive North on 1-5 about 12 miles
Take exit 136 for Sutherlin/Elkton
Drive Highway 138 until it merges with Highway 38, Umpqua
Highway. Stay on 38 towards Reedsport.
Turn left onto Loon Lake Road
Stay on Loon Lake Road past Loon Lake, about 9 miles
Turn right on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
Stay on this road for a long time, don't take any turns or forks.
Drive slow and careful on loose gravel.
Turn right at 2300, called "Beaver Creek Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

From Coos Bay
Take Highway 241 East to Allegany, about 12 miles
From Allegany get on Road 1000, called "Elk Ridge Road"
The road will go through some state forest land along Marlow
creek, then through some private timber land that will be
distinct, on the right, because of gnarly clearcuts and tree farms
Back on public land, look for road 2300 on the left "Beaver Creek
Road"
Drive until the road crosses a river on a small concrete bridge.
Take the right fork, 8100
Drive for about 2 miles, watch out for potholes
Look for a large flat area with paths and a makeshift camp.
You're here!

NEST Video & Online Fundraiser & Call for Volunteers!

2011-07-04T00:05:00.000-07:00

In 1999, NEST sprouted out of the CFD Fall Creek Campaign. Since then, NEST has conducted volunteer rare animal surveys in order to stop logging in Pacific Northwest Ancient Forests. During the last 12 years, NEST volunteers have helped save thousands of acres of endangered forest from being logged.

This summer, surveys & climbing begin in mid-July! NEST seeks volunteers for ground support, tree-climb surveys, town support, and more!

Please email nestcascadia@gmail.com, for more info or to get involved.

Also, In order to raise money for our 2011 campaign, NEST is conducting an online fundraiser! NEST is run entirely by unpaid volunteers. However, a summer long camp costs money to maintain. There are mouths to be fed, climbing equipment and camping gear needed, data-taking instruments to acquire, expensive transportation costs, office work expenses, and more!

For this, NEST asks supporters who might not be able to come out into the forests to contribute financially. You can do this directly through the paypal donation button on the NEST website (receipts for tax purposes available upon request). Or, NEST has also set up an account at Indieagogo. For this, the summer funding goal is $2000!

All donations are tax deductible! NEST issues receipts upon request.

Please spread the word and help NEST meet its fundraising goal for the summer, by clicking on the following link!:

http://www.indiegogo.com/Northwest-Ecosystem-Survey-Team-NEST

SQUARE DANCE for the FORESTS OF CASCADIA

2011-06-24T03:02:00.000-07:00

July 1st at 7:30PM

Bulb Ranch in Glenwood - 1475 Brooklyn off Franklin Blvd behind Dari-Mart

With Possum on a Rail and Callers Rosie Sweatman and Brandon 'Leather Britches' Olszewski

Come out and have a boot-stompin' time on the hottest night of the summer!

$5 gets you in the door, bring more for a cake walk and to support our last line of free legal defense in Eugene.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BRING YOUR OWN BEER!!!! We cannot provide beer because of some resistance from the state.

Proceeds benefit Cascadia Forest Defenders and the Civil Liberties Defense Center

For more information contact 541-913-2635

Can You Believe it?! We are INCREDIBLY excited.

2011-05-24T19:12:00.000-07:00

Court Halts Logging of Pristine Forest Above McKenzie River

EUGENE, OR - Conservation groups and community members today hailed a district court decision that declared the Trapper timber sale illegal. The timber sale, located in the McKenzie River watershed, the source of Eugene's drinking water, would have logged 155 acres of never-before-logged mature forest in the Blue River area of the Willamette National Forest.

Federal Judge Tom Coffin ruled that in approving the timber sale the U.S. Forest Service violated a basic federal environmental law. Judge Coffin wrote:

"The public is entitled to be accurately informed of the impact of the proposed action on the [northern spotted owl] and to have a meaningful opportunity to weigh in on the proposal. Approval of the Trapper Timber Sale were based on a factual inaccuracy and the public has yet to be informed of the actual findings."

The Forest Service cannot move forward with logging until the agency makes a new decision that meets the requirements of the law.

"The McKenzie is Eugene's backyard recreation paradise and its old forests filter our drinking water and shelter all kinds of wildlife," says Kate Ritley, Executive Director of Cascadia Wildlands. "This logging proposal was flawed from the start when it was first issued a decade ago, and it's high time we left it in the past."

The Forest Service first proposed the timber sale in 1998 and has failed to address significant new information that has arisen since the agency issued a decision on the project in 2003. In the ten years since the project was planned, a pair of threatened northern spotted owls has taken up residence in the vicinity of the timber sale.

The court said the agency relied on a flawed analysis of impacts to endangered species and failed to respond to a scientific critique of the project.

"It is past time the Forest Service permanently cancel this outdated logging project," says Doug Heiken, Conservation and Restoration Coordinator with Oregon Wild. "The agency has a choice between logging mature and old-growth forests or identifying common-sense projects that thin young forests to benefit wildlife, protect the forest, and create jobs. It should be an easy choice."

The Trapper timber sale has been the subject of controversy before. On two past occasions, Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild successfully challenged the species impacts opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). USFWS is the federal agency in charge of recovering endangered species and had illegally issued opinions that would have allowed the Trapper timber sale to proceed despite negative effects to threatened wildlife.

"The fight to protect the ancient forests and wildlife found in the Trapper timber sale has been a long and hard one, but today that diligence has finally paid off," says Susan Jane Brown, attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center.

The groups believe the Forest Service should be spending limited taxpayer dollars on projects that restore degraded landscapes, like restoration thinning in tree plantations resulting from past clear-cutting, decommissioning harmful roads, and enhancing fish and wildlife habitat.

The organizations are represented by Susan Jane Brown of the Western Environmental Law Center and Dan Kruse of Cascadia Wildlands..

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Cascadia Forest Defenders Protest Seneca Jones dirty deeds.

2011-05-05T23:45:00.000-07:00

Cascadia Forest Defenders and other local groups came out in strong opposition to greenwashing and forest destruction today at the grand opening party for the new biomass burning facility at Seneca Jones in Eugene.

3 people were arrested at the event, 1 who had locked his body to a car in order to block the entrance being used, and 2 other banner holders for . . . well, we arent really sure, the Sherrifs may just like the number 3.

Media, elected officials and other invited attendants attempting to go the party got to sit in stopped traffic and surely found a little extra time to read signs, and banners, and hear wonderful singing and speeches from the protesters.

This protest occured for multiple reasons

-Seneca-Jones logs old growth and native forests, often with clearcuts, often on public lands. And they will now be burning much of these forests.

-biomass burning is a dirty way to produce energy, just as dirty as coal or petrolium products. It is a false solution to climate change, don't buy the industry science.

-This facility is located in a part of town where toxins in the air and water are already heavily concentrated, and those toxins are being dumped on an underrepresented low income "minority" community. This is Seneca Jones, Lane County, and the EPA demonstrating Environmental racism.

Rally coming!,Wow Hall Trees!, Elliot Hike!, Oh My!!!

2011-04-27T09:11:00.000-07:00

Update for May 2011

As you know, Seneca-Jones, Eugene's own clear-cutting, water-wrecking, air-abusing, timber barons, have built a giant "Biomass" burning energy generation plant (cogeneration or cogen plant) at their highway 99 facility.

Cascadia Forest Defenders wants to help make Eugene aware that Biomass is a False Solution to climate change, built around a well funded greenwashing campaign. Its dirty energy, dont buy into it!

In addition to being generally terrible, Seneca-Jones' Cogen fascility will be burning up slash, forest floor and maybe even whole trees coming directly out of wild native forests and old growth ecosystems that CFD is currently trying to stop from being logged at all, such as Trapper (www.savetrapper.com), and maybe even out of the Elliot State Forest where Seneca-Jones trucks have recently been spotted.

We say NO WAY!

CFD and our Allies recently discovered that Seneca-Jones is having a "grand opening" party and all sorts of public officials and media are planning on being there, They wanted to keep this nice little photo-op a secret, but we have plans to attend!

so, Please join us on May 5th 2011, at 9:30am to protest this event. The Seneca-Jones facility is located on hwy 99 a few miles north of beltline, there is very little available parking or sidewalks, so please be prepared to deal with that. We are asking you to bring signs, art, street theatre, and whatever other crafty, beautiful, or revolutionary things you can think of to draw attention to this issue and make a scene at this event. Also, please be prepared for the protest to have to move, as this large facility has many entrances that may be used.

A carpool and caravan will be meeting in the parking lot of Putters Pizza located on hwy 99 just past Royal avenue around 9 am, and leaving that parking lot by 9:30am. You can find this event on FaceBook and www.forestdefensenow.com.

See you then!

In other Important Eugene News:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 4/23/2011

Just in time for Earth Day, we got word yesterday that the big trees
next to the WOW Hall were on death row.

SAVE THE TREES?

The Urban Forester for the City of Eugene has decreed that two of
the giant trees next to the WOW Hall along Lincoln Street must be cut
down to the ground.

These big leaf maples were planted in the early 20th century as part
of a historic community tree-planting. After shading Eugene for
nearly 100 years and the WOW Hall since it was built, the Forester has
determined that the trees are hazardous and must be destroyed (the WOW
Hall will be receiving an independent professional analysis during
the next week).

The trees have been given three weeks to live. Final approval to
remove the trees needs to come from the City Council on May 16.

Anyone with an idea on how to save the trees should contact the WOW
Hall office NOW! 541-687-2746

We also recently became aware that a Cottage Grove based organization called Forest Web is leading a guided day Hike into the Elliot State Forest on May 21st.

To attend this event, meet at the parking lot of the cottage grove wal-mart at 9am on may 21st, expect to be gone most the day, dress for weather and prepare for a sad mix of stunning beauty and total devastation. We will be there, and we hope to see you!

4-19-2011

2011-04-19T19:06:00.000-07:00

Hey you wonderful people!

We wanted to send a big thanks to those of you who made it out to the Watch showing last week, it was very well attended and a good time for sure!

Make sure to keep an eye on this listserv and www.forestdefensenow.com for more events like this in the future.

If you would like to join Cascadia Forest Defenders in the capacity of organizing events and actions, Come to this weeks meeting, It will be on the second floor of the Growers Market Building at 6:30 pm on thursday April 21st. Though questions are welcome, and you should come even if you dont know everything there is to know about our campaigns, please dont consider these meetings an educational event, we move through a lot of organizing business in these meetings, and try to do history and other education as seperate events.

Also, Sorry for the last minute notification, but this friday you should check this out, (information copied from the facebook event created by the organizers_

Direct Action Training :

Time	Friday, April 22 · 12:00pm - 3:00pm

Location	Erb Memorial Union 13th st. University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon


More Info	This dynamic presentation is by famous regional activist and organizer Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky! Earth day events is proud to bring this essential and dynamic speaker and presenter. The presentation is an instructional, in the essential skill to create a situation in this world where our needs are met. Direct action, is the philosophy that the ability to make a better world, is rooted in our ability to make it so- without the requirement of bankers, bosses or bureaucrats. Such a skill and thought process, is a fundamental component for any effective campaign. Hear this wonderful speaker in Century room E from `12-2 pm. NOTE Please attend the whole workshop if you come, since a great deal of information will be covered.

Film showing, meetings and More!

2011-04-07T23:16:00.000-07:00

Please join us Thursday April 14th, 2011 for a screening of the 2001 documentary :

Watch

A film by Briana Waters about forest defenders working together with the locals of a small Washington logging town to save a mountain and its forests from logging.

We will be screening this film at the East Blair Housing Co-operative (located at the southwest corner of 4th and adams in eugene) at 7pm on Thursday, April 14th.

We will be accepting donations, but there is no charge. The film will be preceded by a brief introduction to our current campaign ( www.savetrapper.com for more info) and followed by discussion.

Want to help plan events like these and much more?

If you think you would like to get involved in organizing events like these and much much more, come check out an organizers meeting. We are currently transitioning our meeting time and location, please email forestdefensenow@gmail.com if you would like to attend a meeting.

April 20th Rising Tide North America's Day of Action Against Extraction :

Cascadia Forest Defenders is not currently aware of any plans in Eugene for this event, people are encouraged to take action themselves or join Portland Rising Tide for there event in Hood River, Oregon.

Later this year:

There are sure to be many events between now and then, but clear your calendars for the CFD action camp. The camp will be later this year, starting Friday July 22nd and running at least 3 days. More details will come about this event later, but you can start planning for it early!

The Legal Front...

2010-10-19T13:01:00.000-07:00

The Following is a press release announcing a lawsuit filed by two environmental organizations in Eugene to stop the Trapper timber sale. Cascadia Forest Defenders applaud the efforts of other organizations in the Eugene community to stop the logging of ancient forests in our watershed. Cascadia will be free!

-Love, CFD

*Conservation Organizations Challenge Decade-Old Logging Plan Above
Renowned McKenzie River*

EUGENE - Working to halt an outdated timber sale originally proposed over ten years ago, two conservation organizations filed a lawsuit today in federal district court. The legal challenge by Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild takes aim at the Willamette National Forest's Trapper timber sale above the McKenzie River, which proposes to log 157 acres of mature and old-growth forest.

The U.S. Forest Service first proposed the timber sale in 1998 and has failed to address significant new information that has arisen since the agency issued a decision on the project in 2003.

"The McKenzie is Eugene's backyard recreation paradise," says Kate Ritley, Executive Director of Cascadia Wildlands. "The McKenzie's forests filter our drinking water and shelter all kinds of wildlife. We need to protect these precious forests for future generations, not destroy them for short-term profits."

In the ten years since the project was planned a pair of threatened northern spotted owls has taken up residence in the vicinity of the timber sale. According to new research data, the species continues a downward population trend both range-wide and in a large study area that encompasses the logging project. Additionally, the Forest Service logging plan fails to protect dozens of red tree vole nests located in the project area. The red tree vole is a small mammal that lives in older conifer forests and is required protection when its nests are located. The vole is also a major food source for the northern spotted owl. Because of these factors and other threats to the species, the conservation organizations believe protections from harmful timber sales are more warranted than ever.

The Trapper timber sale has been the subject of controversy before. On two past occasions, Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild successfully challenged the species impacts opinion issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). USFWS is the federal agency in charge of recovering endangered species and had illegally issued opinions that would have allowed the Trapper timber sale to proceed despite negative
effects to threatened wildlife.

"It is past time the Forest Service retire this reckless project for good," says Doug Heiken, Conservation and Restoration Coordinator with Oregon Wild. "The agency has a choice between logging mature and old-growth forests on public lands above our treasured McKenzie River or identifying common-sense projects that benefit wildlife, protect the forest, and create jobs. It should be an easy choice."

The groups believe the Forest Service should be spending limited taxpayer dollars on projects that restore degraded landscapes, like restoration thinning in tree plantations formed by past clearcutting, decommissioning harmful roads, and enhancing fish and wildlife habitat. The groups have offered to work with the Forest Service and the purchaser of the Trapper timber sale, Seneca Sawmill, to find replacement timber volume from less controversial areas. The purchaser has not expressed interest in this option. The Willamette National Forest has provided replacement volume to timber companies in the past when timber sales were mired in public controversy. The organizations are being represented by attorneys at Western
Environmental Law Center and Cascadia Wildlands.

Josh Laughlin
Campaign Director
Cascadia Wildlands - we like it wild.
www.CascWild.org - PO Box 10455 Eugene, OR 97440 - 541.434.1463

We educate, agitate, and inspire a movement to protect and restore
Cascadia's wild ecosystems. We envision vast old-growth forests, rivers
full of salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, and vibrant communities sustained by the unique landscapes of the Cascadia
Bioregion.

Civil Liberties Defense Center

2010-09-14T09:20:00.000-07:00

Activists in Eugene are likely familiar with the work of lawyer Lauren Regan and the Civil Liberties Defense Center, which tirelessly educates the community about our civil liberties and defends us from the unreasonable and excessive limits placed on our right to dissent.

Now the CLDC needs our help. Lauren Regan has kicked so much butt in the past few years that financial resources are running a little thin. Anyone who has a little to give and wants to see this lighthouse for forest defenders stay in our community is encouraged to donate to the CLDC here.

Or! Enjoy one of two radical romantic benefit getaways taking place in the next two weeks:

The Local Harvest Feast is on September 18th, this Saturday, at 6pm. Space is limited, please RSVP 541 687-9180, or info@cldc.org.
$25 per adult, $40 per couple, $50 per family. FM Wilkins Shelter in Hendricks Park, 2220 Summit, Eugene. All proceeds benefit the defense of our civil liberties.

AND MORE...

the Farewell to Summer Moonlit Rafting Trip on the McKenzie River

Guided, dessert and Ninkasi catered trips down the cool, green waters of the McKenzie River are available on Thursday September 23^rd (full moon) and Friday September 24^th. Two rafts, each with a capacity of 8 riders will be putting on the river by moonrise, rafting under the stars and returning to Eugene in the wee hours (12:30am); transportation provided. Experienced raft guides will row, along with safety boaters, while you enjoy the evening with friends.

Inquires and reservations can be sent to Jasmine at jasminum.flora@gmail.com or 503.929.5950

The evening includes drinks, dessert, transportation, life jackets and a space on the raft! The cost for the evening will be $30. Payments will be collected before departing from Eugene. An additional suggested donation to the Civil Liberties Defense Center is highly suggested and appreciated.

Yes, it's true! You can support our civil liberties while enjoying two of the hottest tickets in town. See you there!

URBAN TREE SIT!

2010-09-06T16:19:00.001-07:00

Early Saturday morning a group of activists with Cascadia Rising Tide set up a platform 40 feet off the ground in a tree on the corner of Oak St and Park St. In that same tree, a banner was hung that read "Forest Service: Give Back Trapper. Protect Our Water." The platform was occupied by Grace Warner to inform Eugene of the horrendous logging practices advocated by the Forest Service, as well as threats to the drinking water supply that the Trapper timber sale poses.

Law enforcement kept a comfortable distance, not showing their presence at the demonstration. The group gained support from Saturday Market staff and vendors alike. Check out media coverage on the channel 9 evening news here (starting at 5:50 into the video). Warner stayed in the tree until the end of market and left on her own accord.

Background Info on Trapper:

Trapper is a beloved timber sale of 149 acres of native forest that is located in the Willamette National Forest. It sits upstream of the McKenzie watershed, the source of Eugene's water. Trapper contains a great deal of old growth douglas fir, western red cedar and hemlock. It is home to over 30 red tree vole nests, and contains spotted owl habitat. This beautiful forest is up on the chopping block, having been sold to logging giant Seneca Jones, and could be cut any day.

The fight to save Trapper has been fought by many different people and organizations throughout the last decade. Currently, Cascadia Forest Defenders have chosen Trapper as a primary focus and hope to see this sale get cancelled. The U.S. Forest Service has the authority to cancel timber sales on National Forest land if there is ample evidence of endangered species within the affected area. Forest Service has noted a pair of spotted owls flying through the sale in the past month, and has determined that the sale is spotted owl habitat.

Seneca Jones' contract with the Forest Service should have ran out this year according to the original sale. But our congressmen, including Peter Defazio supported a measure to extend contracts to logging companies, giving Seneca until 2013 to cut the trees. Defazio also supported cutting the price of timber sales in half, a measure which refunded 500,000 dollars to Seneca Jones for Trapper. CFD does not support these quiet subsidies of big timber, which reek of corporate-government corruption. Our message to Defazio: Protect Oregon's Native Forest! Pressure the Forest Service to Cancel Trapper!

Rally To Save Trapper on Saturday! Meet at Kesey Square at noon!

2010-09-02T23:59:00.000-07:00

On Saturday, Sept. 4 at noon in Kesey Square, there will be a march/ rally to our Representative Peter Defazio's office, on the other side of Saturday Market. It's time time to let our representatives know that they can not sell our native forests to the highest bidder at the loss of our regional watershed, the McKenzie River. Logging could start any day; look for updates here.

If you want to help, contact Ben at rainbowcakes@riseup.net

NEST seeks volunteers!

2010-08-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

With the summer halfway over, NEST has already spent many a day hiking gorgeous old growth forest trails, ascending 150 feet into the tops of gnarled and ancient trees, sleeping under shining blankets of starry sky, and seeking evidence of the elusive Red Tree Vole...

... and we need your help!

NEST is having a wonderfully sucessful survey season, and there are still weeks more to go.

We are in need of woods volunteers - for climbing and ground activities! In-town support and donations (of time, gear, funds) are also needed! NEST is an all-volunteer group of committed forest defenders who seek to protect ancient forests by finding rare species that recieve habitat buffers areas. In 10 years of existence, NEST has stopped hundreds of acres from being logged.

If you would like to find out more or join us in our forest-saving adventures, please email us at:

nestcascadia@gmail.com

And check our our website at:

Http://nestcascadia.wordpress.com

Blog:

2009-07-21T12:17:00.001-07:00

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Thursday September 3rd 2009

The Roseburg District Attorney's office has announced that it plans to seek restitution to the tun e of +100k for their expenses at the Elliott Free State. Attorney Lauren Regan with the Civil Liberties Defense Center (www.cldc.org) is representing the case. Here is our response:

"The DA has not provided us nor our attorney with any documents or records to confirm any dollar amount for restitution.

Law enforcement and the State overreacted to traditional civil disobedience. It was their choice to send in so many officers for a completely non-violent act of civil disobedience. LEOs and the State made the choice to bring in too many cops, vehicles, and equipment.

Douglas county and southern Oregon have experience protests over and over again because of environmental destruction. Protesters have become just as part of the landscape as loggers. We recognize the DAs attempt to pin a huge dollar amount for restitution is a scare tactic for not only those involved in the Elliott but future demonstrations.

This is a legal issues. our lawyers are well aware of what is legitimate restitution. paying for police overreaction is illegitimate restitution.

We will fight this in court. "

At the check-in trial on Monday, Elliott defenders were granted permission to leave the state of Oregon without court approval and the next check-in date was set for October 9th. Some forest defenders were given exemptions to not appear on that date due to school/work/family/state of residence conflicts.

We'd like to encourage folks to attend the Oregon Board of Forestry meeting on September 9th in Salem, Oregon. The BOF will meet to discuss the results of their public poll which was overwhelmingly pro enviornment. List toppers included: no more spraying, no more clearcuts, more sustainable forestry. I've heard of the theme Super Villans being tossed around pretty serioulsy so get your costumes ready!

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Next weekend: Mock Trials of Forest-Raping, Climate Changing, Corporate Eco-Terrorists and the government agencies that are under their thumbs!

This event should be cool. It's put on by the Pitchfork Rebellion at the old U.S. Courthouse, 211 E. 7th Ave, Eugene.

Square Dance!

Join Cascadia Summer on August 21st for their final benefit square dance at the rad Blub Ranch in Glenwood (Between Eugene and Springfield).

We're celebrating the end of the WOPR, the Elliott Free State, the resurrection of NEST and a future full of forest defense!

Come to dance, tap your toe, eat Sweet Life, talk about forests and enjoy the summer evening.

Molasses and Alder Street All Stars play sweet tunes and Woody Lane will call the square dance.

Cost is $5-15 or climbing gear!

The dance will begin at 8pm and the music will go on into the night...

1475 Brooklyn Ave. Glenwood, OR
View Square Dance Location in a larger map

Did anyone catch the mistake in the email? Blub Ranch, not Bulb Ranch was written. Teehee!

Here is the flier, put it up!
Here is a link to the other flier, put it up too!

We need letters to the editor! The Roseburg News Review just printed a story about the total cost of the Free State extraction. State officials are saying $93,000 and counting! We must remind people that their presence was excessive, their catered meals and nice hotels were over-the-top. The goal of their actions were not economically minded. It was a scare tactic; an expensive scare tactic at that. Here is a link to the NR article.

More Elliott campaign materials to come! If you'd like to be involved in an above ground campaign to protect the Elliott please contact us, forestdefensenow@gmail.com.

In other news, folks are meeting today to discuss establishing a radical community center/infoshop in Eugene. We couldn't be more thrilled!

Monday, August 10, 2009
Folks are still out doing NEST surveys in Mt. Hood National Forest. I haven't received the full update but it seemed semi-promising that we would find active red tree vole nests. We were all very surprised not to see many big trees, old trees. Mt. Hood seems like it was hit really hard about 100-120 years ago; few old growth stands remain. Luckily, much of it came back as native forest, yet the tree plantations are very evident.
The route for the hike is getting finalized tomorrow. We were able to get directions to the ancient myrtle wood forest hidden in the Elliott from ODF district forester Jim Young. That, plus a few good swimming holes are going to get scouted.
We've had difficulties finding a caller for the square dance on the 21st of this month. Time is running low! Fingers crossed for a fellow named Woody!

Tuesday, August 4, 2009
CazTAZ was a wonderful success! It was great to escape the city heat for the cool forest and rushing streams of the Willamette National Forest. The camp was held at the Trapper timber sale. Trapper is a beautiful area of ancient forest bought by Seneca Jones Timber Company. This area could be cut any time. A few years ago the organization NEST completed red tree vole surveys in the area and found 40 vole nests! This incicates that the area is active spotted owl habitat (voles are one of the owl's main food sources). This information was not taken into account and the area is still slated for clearcut and "commerical thinning."
"Concerned" citizens in Coos Bay are still watching and judging us. A recent letter to the editor in the Coos Bay World critisized our gathering while lauding the timber harvest practices in the Elliott. The arguement was: there are 93,000 acres in the Elliott, who cares if we clearcut 500 this summer! Sure, that makes sense, as long as you don't add up any other years of cutting. The Elliott was established in 1905, if we clearcut "only" 500 acres per year that means we've cut over 50,000 acres in the Elliott! Perspective...it's all about perspective.
We are really looking forward to creating a more sustainable campaign around the Elliott. Many conservation campains have been established as a result of direct action. If you have campaign resources or ideas give us a shout.

Now we are off to do some NEST red tree vole surveys in the Mt. Hood National Forest where the proposed Palomar LNG pipeline will [not] run. We are also working on a benefit on the 21st of August in Eugene and a hike in the Elliott on the 15th! Tell your friends!

Monday, July 27, 2009
We are all very excited for CasTAZ (Cascadia Temporary Autonomous Zone) happening August 1&2 (next weekend!)! We hope you are too! The details are being worked out as we type. Plan on coming out for the weekend and keeping an open schedule beyond.

CasTAZ Update
We are hoping that this weekend will bring forest defenders together to centralize ideas and campaign strategy. Please encourage everyone in your affinity group to join us.

Here is an outline of some of the workshops:

Backwoods stealth and survival
Current forest threats and potential solutions
Climb/Rigging trainings
Affinity group formation and communication
Know Your Rights
Memories of Elliott Free State
Spectacle Creation
Changing forest policy
Canopy Cooking

Another great Cascadia Summer event this week is happening on Tuesday at 7pm. There is a wonderful workshop about campaign stragety and avoiding burnout. Activists from all walks can learn great things from this workshop.

Food prep help is still needed! Please contact us at forestdefensenow@gmail.com if you are interested in canning and preserving food for the forest!

Friday, July 23, 2009
ODF Rally Wrap-Up: 22 protesters showed up at the July 22nd duel timber auction at the Oregon Department of Forestry office in Coos Bay. The ODF had a four parking spots coned off as the "demonstration area." They also provided us with a porta-potty (so we wouldn't go inside). I finally got to meet Jim Young, Coos District Forester. He seemed pretty overwhelmed with his new job duties, perhaps it is making him rethink liquidating the Elliott. I know he is making future forester jobs easier ...by removing all of the forest. We had fun with the cones, displayed our pretty banner "Buying the Elliott? Buying Resistance!"At 2pm we marched single file into the auction room. One of our youngest protesters (aged 2) was the first to break the silence after we entered by yelling "stop cutting down the trees!!" Impromptu childhood rants couldn't have timed a better outcry. There were a few timber folk there but the bids were done via sealed envelope. The whole process was far less interesting than I hoped. Once it was announced that the auction was over we filed out singing our favorite hymn "We'll See You in the Forest, We'll See You in the Forest."

We are onto planning a mid-summer rendezvous for NEXT WEEKEND! The location is TBA. Prepare to come totally self-sufficient. There will not be a communal kitchen. This is a time for skill share, strengthening affinity groups and forest living. More details will be announced as they come to the surface but for now, get all your gear, your close, trusted friends and make plans to be in the woods next weekend!

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
This is a new blog! The Cascadia Summer crew is busy today. We are working on a zine about the Elliott, logging and our experiences with direct action. A press release is going out today (see below) about the rally at the Oregon Department of Forestry auction tomorrow in Coos Bay. If you still need a ride, we have space! Come to the Lorax Manner, 1648 Alder St, Eugene tomorrow at 9. Bring stuff for the day.
We are still looking for folks to plan benefits and outreach events in Eugene and surrounding areas. Contact us at forestdefensenow@gmail.com if you're interested.
Here is the press release:
Oregonians Rally in Protest of Clearcutting in Elliott State Forest
Following the cancellation of the Western Oregon Plan Revision (WOPR) at the federal level, local forest defense and climate change activists still see a need for increased forest protection and will continue a multi-tactic forest-defense campaign with a rally Wednesday.

Elliott Free State organizers will rally at the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) sale of Oregon’s native costal forest in a duel timber auction Wednesday, July 22 at 2pm at the ODF district office in Coos Bay. Protestors are pressuring the ODF to buy back the most immanent sales in the Elliott State Forest, halt all further sales until a more sustainable timber harvest plan is presented and to make known a strong resistance campaign to potential buyers of the two sales.

“This area is not only critical for endangered species, the Elliott and Pacific Northwest forests like it, store more carbon per acre than any other forest in the world; it is critical climate change habitat as well” says Cascadia Rising Tide member Jasmine Zimmer-Stucky.
From July 6-9th Elliott Free State organizers held a road blockade blocking access to the active Umpcoos Ridge timber sale in the Elliott. Using direct action tactics the group was able to maintain the structures until protestors were removed by law enforcement officers and 27 arrests were made.

The Elliott State Forest is 93,000 acres of native costal forest located in both Coos and Douglas County. The Elliott is the largest intact public forest on the southern Oregon coast. The forest provides documented habitat for three endangered species: spotted owls, marbled murrelets, and coastal coho salmon.Two sales, Sullivan Daggett Divide and Lower Deer are scheduled for auction this Wednesday at 2pm. Both of these sales are in mature forest containing Douglas-Firs averaging over 100 years. Much of the Elliott is mature forest which re-grew naturally after a settler caused fire in 1868.

Elliott Free State organizers hope to continue the pressure from the Free State road blockade with a public campaign against clearcut logging in the Elliott. Wednesday’s rally at the Coos Bay auction marks the start of a “Buy Back the Elliott” campaign. This campaign is aimed at both the Oregon Department of Forestry and the Oregon Land Board with the goal of increased conservation and sustainable timber harvesting methods.

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Elliott Free State Forest Occupation - Day 3 - 6/8/09

2009-07-08T07:30:00.000-07:00

First, support the Free State:

Call These Folks!!!! Please! Public Support for the Blockade is Absolutely Necessary for its continuation! We need hundreds of calls ASAP to stop the sale and maintain the blockade.

-Secretary of State and Oregon Land Board member Kate Brown: (503) 986-1523

-Coos District Forester Jim Young (541) 267-1741

Ask them to cancel the current timber sales (Umpcoos and Fishing Cougar) in the Elliottt State Forest! This area is important native forest land; it should be set aside as a biodiversity and carbon reserve for endangered species and climate change mitigation. Tell them you support the continuation of the blockade!

Second - Join us! Directions and ride board below.

Elliott Free State Forest Occupation - Day 3
News From the Barricades

Yesterday, July 7, 2009, Law enforcement officers from the Douglas County Sheriffs Office delivered a 'cease and desist' order to activists currently blockading the Umpcoos Ridge 2 Timber Sale. One member of the blockade responded with, "This is really important native forest land that is our future old growth, so we're here as long as we can protect that." Cascadia Summer activists are concerned that these actions by police may be the first step toward forceful eviction of the protest.

The Free State stands vigilant, prepared for potential aggression from law enforcement. Our voices remain raised.

"Our message to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and timber company is that they must permanently halt all logging in the Umpcoos and Fishing Cougar timber sales. Large private forests owned by big businessess are exempted from timber harvest taxes so that when it comes time to fund schools, the public has to foot the bill by liquidating Elliot State Forest. I feel like folks are getting tired of this 'Good for Wall Street and bad for Main Street' phrase, but it is still extremely relevant. ODF, change your business practices." said Joshua Partridge of Cascadia Rising Tide (CRT).

Do you know what we're loosing?

Help hold the FREE STATE! - Call and Come!

2009-07-07T00:42:00.000-07:00

CALL Oregon Land Board member Kate Brown and tell her that you support the blockade! Ask her to cancel the current timber sales in the Elliott State Forest, set the area aside as a biodiversity and carbon reserve and make up the lost revenue by revoking the Timber Harvest Tax exemption for private land owners of over 5000 acres. Ask her to tell the Elliott Forest law enforcement NOT TO ATTEMPT EVICTION of the Free State! 503.986.1523

Also call the Oregon Department of Forestry and tell them cancel the sale and NOT TO ATTEMPT EVICTION of the Free State! Coos District Forester Jim Young: 541.267.1741

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Today, a group of Cascadia Earth First!ers and Rising Tide members took action against the continued liquidation and destruction of Oregon’s Elliott State Forest. Using sky pods, bipods, road blockades, overturned cargo vans, lock downs and many other beautiful installations, the road to Umpcoos Ridge timber sale has been occupied, held and reclaimed for the forest, the people and future generations.

For decades this forest near Coos Bay has been hammered, managed as if it was a piggy bank, smashed in an unsuccessful attempt to fund public schools.

Some of Oregon’s (and the world’s) last native forests, old growth, and future old growth forests are on the chopping block in the Elliott. A lawsuit has been filed against the current management plan for sanctioning the killing of endangered spotted owls. That lawsuit has been ignored. Community groups have resisted the extraction for years and have been ignored.

But the blockade stands, and WE CAN HOLD THE ROAD, but NOT WITHOUT YOUR HELP! Please take some time to protect your public land!

How to help:

First, call Oregon Land Board members Kate Brown and Ben Westlund and tell them you support the blockade! Ask them to cancel the current timber sales in the Elliott State Forest, set the area aside as a biodiversity and carbon reserve and make up the lost revenue by revoking the Timber Harvest Tax exemption for private land owners of over 5000 acres.

Second, JOIN US! Bring all you need to be self sufficient in the woods for as long as you plan to stay and come to the Elliott! (directions at bottom)

Third, if you can’t come, please donate to the cause on our web site: www.ForestDefenseNow.org (but make sure you call the land board first, the success of this action depends on everyone showing support)

Directions:

Go West towards Reedsport on Highway 38
Turn Left on Loon Lake Road
Pass Camp Creek Road, take first right (unmarked)
After 100 feet on unmarked road you will see Cougar Pass Road sign
This road becomes 7000. Follow 6.7miles to site. Careful of multiple forks, stay on road more traveled. Look for Free State on right.

View To Elliot Free State in a larger map

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ELLIOTT STATE FOREST!

2009-06-15T00:17:00.000-07:00

Industry Must Be Held Accountable!

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Roseberg Forest Products and Oregon Department of Forestry:

Clearcutting native JOBS and FORESTS

Industrial logging is wiping out forests at an unsustainable pace for economy AND ecology. We can't afford to leave our future in the hands of corporate timber barons. Over 50% of timber harvested in the northwest is shipped across the ocean to maximize corporate profits, instead of keeping the processing and manufacturing jobs in the local areas where timber is harvested.

In this time of growing economic and ecological crisis, the security of our communities is in the land. Local hunting, fishing and selective logging has been a way of life for thousands of years, but corporate clear cutting is wiping out this way of life. There is only 3% of native forests left in the entire country; most of them here in Oregon. It's time to take back the land we live on and demand local control of the economy.

Photos of Umpcoos Ridge 2, Elliott State forest

CHILDREN NEED NATIVE FORESTS!

Oregon's ancient native forests are the oldest and best classrooms. If these natural ecosystems and the animals that depend on them are lost to industrial logging, then these educational opportunities are lost and no amount of school board money can buy them back. If endangered animals that live in these forests disappear from extinction, they will be gone forever...

Don't let Roseburg Forest Product steal our children's future.

Ask ODF to buy back this summer's timber sales: 503-945-7200

For more info on Cascadia Summer: www.forestdefensenow.org

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WHAT IS THE TIMBER HARVEST TAX EXEMPTION?

For those of you don't know the Oregon Timber Harvest "privilege" tax was repealed for property owners who own more than 5,000 acres starting in 1999 and fully implemented in 2004.

I have a data sheet from the Oregon Department of Revenue which states that State School Funds to public schools from timber harvest taxes dropped from $22.1 million in 2000-01 to $168,000 in 2006-07.
For Community Colleges it started at $1.66 million dropping to $11,650 in the same period.

Timber harvest taxes to local governments (county) to schools in 2000-01 was $22.734 million dropping to 0 in 2002-07.

For other local government purposes harvest taxes started at 6.07 million in 2000-01 dropping to 290,177 in 2006-07.

So, while the timber barons get a big fat tax break the state forests like the Elliott have to be hammered to make up the difference for schools.
Who benefits all the way to the bank (Umpqua Bank if you will)? Allyn Ford, Giustina, Phillippi, Seneca and their buddies.

Roy Keene and others foresters (not industrial deforesters) wrote an initiative to repeal the Oregon Timber harvest tax exemption as well as to tax clear-cutting of young forests on private lands out of existence back in 2001.
How you may ask?

Every board foot of fiber would be taxed 1 cent per board foot multiplied times every year it was clear-cut below say 80 years old.
So, if one clear-cut a stand of trees at 40 years old one would be assessed a 1 cent multiplied by 40 or 40 cents per board foot. 1000 board feet sells for about $300. So the tax would be about $400 thus the tax would higher the the value of the fiber. Partial harvest would be exempt from the full brunt of the tax (as defined in the initiative).
Sure it's not perfect but it would curtail clear-cutting and take the pressure of state and other public lands to support the schools and counties.
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Action Camp was a success!

2009-04-26T15:29:00.000-07:00

The action camp was amazing. Great people, great place, great workshops, great food, very productive!

Now let's put those skills to work and protect our forests. Please come to a meeting and get plugged in.

Nearly everything you need to know about the Action Camp is finally here:

Directions
Ride Board
Transportation
What to bring
Workshop list
Important Info

*Legislation Update*
Video Update on Clearcutting Legislation

Come out to the forest for a weekend of skill building and get ready for a summer of RESISTANCE! The Action Camp is THE BEST WAY TO PLUG IN TO FOREST DEFENSE IN CASCADIA. So come for the weekend and stay for the summer.

On Friday May 22nd we will leave from the Grower's Market (map) at 6pm and carpool to a forest location just 45 minutes from Eugene.

Please bring camping supplies and positive attitudes. Carpools will also leave from Growers on the 23rd at 8am, 24th at 8am and 25th at 8am. Rides will be returning throughout the weekend.

After the action camp, stick around and get plugged in to the movement. (there will be places to say and lots of work to do!)

Want more info? Send an email to: ForestDefenseNow@gmail.com to sign up for the mailing list.

Click here for printer friendly version of the Action Camp Flier.

Spend Your Summer In The Trees!

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Have you ever wished you could spend a few weeks - or months - in the forest?

Have you ever passed a clear cut and wanted to make sure that forests are no longer treated like that?

Did you know that deforestation is the second largest contributor to climate change behind fossil fuels?

Would you like to do something about it?

Join us in the forest for Cascadia Summer 2009!

What - A chance to directly defend our forests and climate!

When - Action Camp (trainings!) in May, ongoing actions all summer!

Where - Western Oregon's Public Lands! (exact location TBA)

Why:

Deforestation is the NUMBER 2 cause of climate change according to NASA

Northwest Forests store MORE CARBON per acre than any other forest in the WORLD

With out grassroots intervention over 25,000 acres of Oregon's PUBLIC FOREST will be cut this summer.

Solutions to Climate Change MUST involve healthy forests!

This web page will be updated frequently as the campaign get closer. Please check back for updated info AND if you're interested in joining us in the forest or helping organize the campaign, send an email to:

ForestDefenseNow@gmail.com

Past Actions

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After two weeks the tree sit is still going strong. We've gotten great news coverage from the Eugene Weekly and KEZI. The BLM responded by saying that they are not planning on cutting in the area soon. We said we'll be here until the sale is canceled.

Help stop the WOPR,
Visit the sit! Saturday June 20th

Carpool from Growers Market at 10AM, 4th and Willamette.

Join us for:

Climb Trainings, Plant walk, beautiful old growth. Bring a lunch and your walking shoes.

Then on Sunday, Cascadia Summer Solstice Square Dance!

Come dance the night away and help raise some money for forest defense. 6-9PM Sunday June 21st at the Vet's Club, 1626 Willamette St.

Music by Molasses and calling by Paul Silveria

$5-15 sliding scale or equivalent in canned goods.

In the fall of last year (2008), we organized a tree sit in Salem. It was great! It was successful! It was FUN!

We have since followed this up with a personalized gift basket delivered to Governor Kulongowski and a dance party at (St)Umpqua bank in downtown Eugene.

Here are some videos that came out of the Salem Action:

How Can I Get Involved?

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We have regular meetings, keep an eye on this website for meeting and events or email us for current information.

contact forestdefensenow@gmail.com for more info.

Who Are the Cascadia Forest Defenders?

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Cascadia Forest Defenders are the last line of defense between federal agencies/timber companies and our PUBLIC FOREST LAND.

We are a direct action campaign that includes many creative tools from the activist tool box such as: Non-Violent Direct Action (Tree Sitting and more!), Education, Media Outreach, Community Outreach, Engaging Representatives, and much more.

We have camps in the forest and friendly houses in the city and we're inviting comrades young and less young, experienced and less experienced to join us for a summer, a month or even just a few days.

To plug in, sign up on our email list and get the latest updates!

ForestDefenseNow@gmail.com

Have you ever wished you could spend a few weeks - or months - in the forest?

Have you ever passed a clear cut and wanted to make sure that forests are no longer treated like that?

Did you know that deforestation is the second largest contributor to climate change behind fossil fuels?

Would you like to do something about it?

Join us in the forest!

Calendar

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Notes

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CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES BY TUESDAY APRIL 28th!!!
There are a few crucial bills being voted on Tuesday. If we can defeat these bills now, it will make all of our lives a lot easier in the future. Think about it: one phone call today or one blockade tomorrow? Let’s conserve our energy for the fall…
-Call Rep. Terry Beyer (Springfield, say you’re from Lane County) regarding HB 3072 which would make clearcutting a priority on public lands.
-Call Rep. Paul Holvey and ask him to stop HB 3058 which endorses LNG in Oregon. Get more information at www.LNGisDIRTY.org
***Legislator Directory: 1.800.332.2313***

WOPR/BLM
Fall Creek is also up for cut again. Cascadia Wildlands Project is leading a hike on May 9th, visit www.cascwild.org for more information.

Elliot State Forest:
The Elliot is a special circumstance due to its status as state forest. State forests are under the control of the State Forestry Board which has very close ties to the timber industries. The Elliot will be cut this summer.

Marbled Murrelet Survey
Shannon is willing to lead survey trips to the Elliot and other threatened areas. Locating a marbled murrelet in a timber sale can potentially stop a timber sale! Visit www.eco-advocates.org to reach Shannon and look for survey trips on the University of Oregon Outdoor Program webpage in the next few weeks!

Oregon Wild:
They will be releasing a PUBLIC DOCUMENT which explains the pros and cons on Senator Wyden’s forest bill. This bill is insufficient and would not protect Oregon’s forests from dirty axes. Check out their website www.oregonwild.org.

Stumpqua:
Roseburg Forest Products and Umpqua Bank CEO Allen Ford must be stopped! Join a weekly tabling protest each Friday afternoon outside of Stumpqua on 7th and Oak. Visit www.eco-advocates.org

The State of Northwest Forests

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BLM’s Old Growth Clearcutting Plans

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has auctioned and awarded more than 25,000 acres of timber sales to large, private timber companies. All that currently stands in the way is one document from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife, called a Biological Opinion, that theoretically states what impacts these timber sales will have on species listed under the Endangered Species Act. Historically, Biological Opinions have been a blank check to move forward with clearcutting. This new Biological Opinion is now required because of a lawsuit filed over the cummulative impacts of these timber sales on the owl. Since 2004, the Oregon BLM has been found guilty of breaking federal law by 9th Circuit federal courts on at least six separate cases involving timber sales in southern Oregon.

The Medford, Roseburg, and Coos Bay BLM districts bear the bulk of these timber sales.
If that isn’t bad enough, the BLM’s new Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR, “Whopper”), enacted on Dec. 31, 2008, was created by the Bush Administration as a payback to Oregon’s timber barons and allows the BLM to renege on its responsibilities under the NW Forest Plan of 1994, a compromise between industry and environmental interests. The WOPR would log 1 million acres of public land in Oregon, including 100,000 acres of old growth; 70% of the logging would be clearcutting. Groups are calling on Obama to rescind the WOPR along with other Bush actions. Although Oregon’s Governor Kulongoski has appealed the WOPR, state legislators are expected to introduce legislation by March 2 in support of the WOPR. Regardless of the WOPR, the BLM will still clearcut old growth this summer, same as usual, unless we take bold action to stop it.

Clearcutting is not the only threat. The BLM and Forest Service plan tens of thousands of acres of “thinning” and understory removal, referred to “fuels reduction" under the false claim of reducing fire risk, in native and old growth forests throughout Oregon. Much of the slash leftover may transported to massive, centralized conversion facilities, which pollute the air especially in poorer neighborhoods, to inefficiently produce electricity or liquid fuel.

State Forest Clearcutting

Oregon’s timber-dominated Board of Forestry and state legislators who approve them are expected to introduce a bill by March 2 that would make clearcutting the #1 priority for Oregon’s state forests, especially the Tillamook-Clatsop State Forest. Meanwhile, timber barons, like Allyn Ford, CEO of Roseburg Forest Products and Chairman of Umpqua Bank, continue to ravage the Elliot State Forest, which has some of the best endangered species habitat left in the entire Coast Range of Western Oregon and preserves important habitat connectivity.

Impacts of Such Logging

The BLM’s plans threaten the climate and economic security of everyone, not only Oregonians. One reason is that deforestation is the #2 cause of climate change, according to NASA, and Pacific NW Forests store more carbon per acre than any other forests in the world, according to OSU Forest Scientists Mark Harmon and Olga Krankina.

The U.S. has only 5% of its old growth forests remaining, much of them on Oregon’s public lands. Therefore, it is necessary to protect not just the oldest trees but also biodiverse and non-plantation mature forests (future old growth).

Logging and replacing biodiverse forests with tree plantations on public lands makes forests more susceptible to climate change and its effects, including fire and disease. Logging in biodiverse younger forests and the removal of biomass left over from logging for conversion to electricity or liquid fuel threaten the resiliency of our forests that need to adapt rapidly to climate change or be replaced by desert, compromising food security.

The BLM’s and Oregon legislators’ boom-and-bust plans threaten Oregon’s long-term economic security by eliminating merchantable timber, destroying soil and waterways that Oregonians need for food security, depleting local jobs by exporting unprocessed timber, and underpaying and abusing the rights of migrant forest workers. Clearcutting also damages other industries, like fishing, tourism, and recreation, which comprise a greater slice of Oregon’s economy. Moreover, the BLM’s plans are especially damning to responsible ecoforesters. Currently, with a depressed housing market, a flood of old growth logs into the market would render ecoforesters unable to compete. These ecoforesters provide a positive model that local communities support but that the BLM and the Oregon Board of Forestry continue to reject in favor of one dominated by the timber industry’s rush for short-term gain at the public’s expense.

Just like we need to reduce emissions from other sources right now, we need to treat emissions from deforestation as an emergency situation. We need an immediate moratorium on logging of biodiverse mature and old growth forests to allow our forests to work maximally as carbon storage systems and meanwhile work toward achieving carbon and biodiversity reserves on forested public lands. Another solution is to transfer all 2.6 million acres of the BLM’s O&C lands in Western Oregon to the Forest Service. This would save an estimated $50 million in expenditures per year and yield greater forest protection.

Visit www.umpqua-watersheds.org for more information on timber sale specifics, and www.eco-advocates.org for “thinning” and forest biomass-to-energy conversion information. For previous actions against the WOPR, visit the “cascadiarisingtide” channel at Youtube.com.

Flier Downloads

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Action Camp Poster:

Click to download PDF
Action Camp Quarter Sheets:

Just find a copier that can print on both sides, print both of these out and choose two sided.

Click to download PDF Front
Click to download PDF Back

Details details...

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Location:
Forest Service Land near Fall Creek. Please check ForestDefensenow.org for a printable map of the exact camp location (available Tuesday evening)

About the site:
Fall Creek is located 45 minutes southeast of Eugene off of highway 58 near Lowell, Oregon. It is home to native and old growth forest, much of which was saved from the chopping block by dedicated forest defenders over the last decade. Sadly, another timber sale has been proposed under the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR).

Rideshare:
There is a rideshare board up at www.forestdefensenow.org. Please use it if you are driving OR in search of a ride. We are encouraged folks to meet at the Growers Market parking lot in Eugene, MAP at either 6pm on Friday May 22nd or 8am on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. We cannot guarantee that cars will be at Growers, it is just a meet-up space. Please use the rideboard! Bikers will be meeting at 10:30 on Friday morning, check the website for more info.

Upon arrival:
Go to the Welcome Tent first. Tent volunteers will help orient you to the camp, find ways for you to plug in, accept your monetary donations, show you where to camp, give you the schedule

Morning Circle:
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day for two reasons 1. Food in the am is good for you, 2. It is Morning Circle time! This is a space for announcements, updates, short games, getting to know each other and building a community of resistance. Please don’t sleep through it!

Workshops:
The first workshops begin at 10am on Saturday! Please try and make it out by then. The last workshop is Monday afternoon. The workshops are designed to give participants a very solid foundation to either create or build upon forest defense knowledge. There will be core workshops that everyone is strongly encouraged to join and peripheral workshops that may be of interest.

Kitchen:
The kitchen will be staffed by Action Camp participants! You are strongly encouraged to bring donations. There will be a lite breakfast, lunch and dinner served. Unless marked, the kitchen will serve vegan food. Please bring sufficient snacks and supplementary items. You must bring your own kitchen supplies. Potable water will be available.

Drugs/Alcohol/Cigarettes:
Not in common spaces, please. Drug/Alcohol/Cigarette-induced behavior will not be tolerated. Smoking permitted on gravel/paved surfaces only, not in the forest.

Kids:
Yes! Bring them! We would love the wee-ones energy at the Action Camp. We encourage parents and interested non-parents to connect and share childcare duties during the camp.

Camping:
There will be quiet and less quiet camping areas, no electricity and no cell service at the campsite.

Donation:
Suggested donation, $5 per day. These funds will help us recoup Action Camp expenses all go directly to forest defense. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Wish List:
We are in search of tarps, rope, climbing equipment, long metal poles, kitchen ware (serving bowls, large pots, large wok, etc). If you would like to donate these materials to the camp/campaign please contact us asap at forestdefensenow@gmail.com

Volunteering at the Action Camp:
This event will only function with the support of participants. Upon arrival and at morning circles please volunteer for cooking shifts, security team/welcome tent, and medic (if you are trained). We will also need people for post-camp clean up! Let us know if you can stay post camp!

Anti-Oppression:
In order to create a safe(r) and productive environment for activism and community, we will not be tolerating behavior that demeans, marginalizes, or threatens people or members of nature. Examples are offensive remarks about person's gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, mental health, culture, level of physical ability, general appearances, income status, being a parent or a child, employed or unemployed, level of experience in activism, taunting or harming plants and animals, etc…

Camping & Accommodations:

The Action Camp will be held on forest land near Eugene. There is no running water, bathrooms, or electricity. We will construct rustic latrines and we will be providing water filtration.

Be aware that the primary on site accommodations will be camping, so make sure to come prepared for wind or rain.

Please plan to bring your own tarp, tent, and bedding. We will have a very limited amount of extra bedding and tarp space on an “on request” basis.

Food!

PLEASE feel extremely encouraged to bring food or money to donate to the kitchen.

There will a kitchen providing a lite breakfast, and dinner to anyone who wants it throughout the Action Camp.

Due to refrigeration restrictions and environmental concerns, food will be vegetarian and vegan friendly although individuals are free and encouraged to bring their own food; bringing your own cookware and stove is strongly encouraged,

Everyone should bring their own snacks for during the day. If you have special needs for food, are a picky eater, or need to eat meat regularly, we strongly encourage you to bring your food or to collaborate with other people coming from your neck of the woods about starting your own “neighborhood” kitchen.

Other Frequently Asked Questions:

1. Can I come for just a day or two?

Of course! We’d love it if you came for longer, but please feel free to come for a day and a night, or just a day. If you can only come for a day, we suggest Saturday.

2. Can I stay all summer?

Yes! Our goal is to build a community of resistance. We have multiple big friendly houses in Eugene and will be establishing an ongoing camp in the forest just after the Action Camp so come for the weekend and stay for the summer! There will of course be lots of fun work to do to make that happen like food gathering, organizing benefit shows, blocking logging roads and much more!

3. Can I bring my dog?

We would strongly prefer if you did not bring your dog. We LOVE doggies, but it will make things more difficult at in camp infrastructure (latrines) and allergy wise.

4. Is the event kid-friendly?

Absolutely!

5. Is there cell phone service? Internet access?

There is internet in friendly houses in Eugene that you’re welcome to use. In the forest there is none of either.

6. What if I get there early?

No problem, we’ve got great places to stay. Drop us a line at ForestDefenseNow@gmail.com and we'll set you up.

7. What happens after the Action Camp?

We’ll encouraging everyone to come back to Eugene, stay in a number of co-op houses and head to the Oregon Department of Forestry rally on Wednesday May 27th. Then we’ll come together to figure out the best way to use our new skills ;-). There will be places to stay and ways to plug in all summer. The more people who stay, the more effective our movement will be!

Workshop Schedule

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Click image to see the workshop schedule:

Legislation Update

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URGENT LEGISLATIVE UPDATE (MAY 19th): House Bill 3072: Clear Cut Bill. On the heels of the announcement of Oregon's budgetary woes, the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Natural Resources has scheduled a hearing this Wednesday, May 20th at 1pm. There is no opportunity for public testimony at the hearing. Everyone should contact Senator Vicki Walker and Representative Chris Edwards and urge a NO vote on HB 3072, which would make clearcutting the number one priority for the Tillamook-Clatsop state forest! Call before Wednesday!
Sen. Vicki Walker: Phone: (503) 986-1707
Rep. Chris Edwards: (503) 986-1414

Action Camp Directions

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Directions from Highway 58 near Eugene, OR:

View Fall Creek Historic Sit in a larger map

Begin on I-5 going north or south:

Merge onto OR-58/Willamette Hwy 13.2 mi
Turn Left at S Pioneer St (over covered bridge in lake) 0.7 mi
Turn Left at N Shore Dr 0.1 mi
Turn Right at N Moss St (becomes Jasper Lowell Rd) 1.8 mi
Turn Right on Big Fall Creek Rd (Follow Signs to Fall Creek) 7.2 mi
Big Fall Creek Rd becomes NFD 18 Rd 3.0 mi
Take FS 18 past Dolly Varden Campground
Turn Left on 1817 RD
Pass the first fork, go straight
2nd Fork - Left after guard rail
Pass hairpin turn over culvert
3rd fork stay right
4th fork go left (lots of thinning)
Go left at next turn (road begins to get rough)
Stop at Welcome Tent

1817 is the last road marked with a sign. There will be orange flagging at each turn after turning 1817.

Click to see locat0r map:

How To Get There

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Coming from Eugene, OR:

Please post on the Rideshare Board if you need a ride or can give one.

1. RIDE YOUR BIKE! Meet at 10:30AM on Friday May 22nd at the Lorax Manner: 1648 Alder St. Eugene, OR. It's a beautiful 30 mile ride organized by experienced bikers and bike mechanics. Drop your things at the Lorax and they will be dropped off by a campaign vehicle at the site. Bring lunch.

2. Meet to carpool at 6pm on May 22nd at Growers Market:
454 Willamette St., Eugene, Oregon 97401

3. Meet to carpool at 8am on May 23-25 at Growers Market

4. Can't meet at one of those times? Exact location and directions will be posted soon.

Other Locations

Please use the new Rideshare Board.

What To Bring

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Things To Bring:

Tent/tarp
Bedding/sleeping bag
Water bottle(s) (water will be available on site)
That fire in your soul
Clothes for rain, wind or swimming
Sun Screen
Flashlight and batteries
Plate, bowl, mug, spoon, and fork
An open mind
Enthusiasm
Skills to share!
Dishes & Utensils
Food (snacks for yourself, food to donate to the kitchen, and/or to cook for yourself if you have special needs)

Optional:

Personal stove if you want to cook your own food.
Non-chemical bug repellent.
Musical instruments.

Please Do Not Bring:

Drugs, Weapons, Drinking problems, things requiring electrical outlets, pets