With Your Help, We’ve Stopped an Illegal Logging Plan
After FSEEE won a preliminary injunction to halt the Willamette National Forest Danger Tree Reduction Project, the U.S. Forest Service has decided to withdraw the project. We're sending out a big "Thank you!" to all of you who made donations to help us win this round....
Jordan Cove Gas Project Dies; FSEEE Helped Kill It
As reported by E&E News, "The developer of an Oregon liquefied natural gas export terminal told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ... it would not move forward with the embattled ... Jordan Cove project." The project would have carried natural gas from...
FSEEE Wins Injunction Against Post-fire Logging in Oregon
A federal judge agreed with FSEEE, blocking most of a Willamette National Forest commercial logging project that would affect habitat for the northern spotted owl, which is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In the Nov. 5 order granting the...
It’s Official: Devil’s Staircase Protected as Wilderness
President Trump signed into law today a multifaceted public lands bill that at long last creates the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Area in the rugged mountains of southwest Oregon’s Coast Range, a designation FSEEE has sought for more than a decade. Yesterday, FSEEE...
A Farm Bill Win
Sometimes a little bit of arm-twisting can yield big results. Earlier this year, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a version of the 2018 Farm Bill that would have opened wide swaths of national forests to clearcutting with little or no environmental review....
