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Amanda Astor: A tale of two owls: the real threat to the northern spotted owl Amanda Astor Timber harvests on federal forests dropped dramatically after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the northern spotted owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1990. Once-flourishing Oregon communities, such as Oakridge and Gilchrist, fell into catastrophic economic decline. Some have found niches to fill, but many are still far from their former glory. Regrettably, policies intended to...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Before Storming the Capitol, Trump Loyalists Practiced in Portland for Years QAnon activists alluded to an impending civil war and claimed two months in advance of the election that, if Trump lost, it would be because Democrats rigged the election. A MAN, A PAN: Ethan Nordean in downtown Portland for a Proud Boys rally in August ...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Readers Respond to a Small Town Divided by Timber Unity "Nobody on that page knows rat-fuck about trees." Ice on Portland branches. (Joy Bogdan) Last week, WW examined a brouhaha in a typically quiet place: a city council meeting in the tiny Lincoln County town of Toledo, where residents from all over Oregon gave testimony on w...

Updated February 3 Each time Toledo City Councilor Bill Dalbey drives along U.S. Highway 20—which winds through the tiny timber town he calls home and extends to Newport, Ore., 7 miles to the west—hes reminded of the hornets nest he kicked over. That stretch of highway leading into Toledo, as well as businesses along the towns Main Street, is scattered with more than a dozen Timber Unity signs, Dalbey says. But its not the signs themselves that bother Dalbey. Its what, in his opinion, t...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. What Can Democrats and Republicans Still Agree On? We Asked Susheela Jayapal and Stan Pulliam. Oregon’s partisan turmoil is a microcosm of the split that has turned Washington, D.C., this week into a heavily guarded fortress. Photos by Wesley Lapointe. Updated January 21 On the morning Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th pres...

Oregon National Guard prepares to respond to civil unrest ahead of Biden inauguration Updated Jan 14, 2021; Posted Jan 14, 2021 Oregon National Guard members and law enforcement at all levels are preparing for possible violence in the state in the days leading up to President-elect Joe Bidens inauguration. This file photo shows anti-Biden demonstrators gathered near the Capitol on Jan. 6, listening to President Donald Trump speak on a TV.The Oregonian Facebook Share Oregon National Guard tro...

The Road to the Capitol Went Through Malheur There’s a clear connection between this week’s attempted coup and a decades-old conflict over federal control of public land in the American West. Maureen Nandini Mitra January 8, 2021 Wednesday’s criminal attack on the US Capitol by a mob of right-wing extremists egged on by a sitting president was eerily familiar to many in the environmental movement who have been closely following some of these groups’ assaults on public lands...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Oregon’s Most Prominent QAnon Proponent and a Timber Unity Spokeswoman Attended the Insurrection at the U.S. Capitol One Oregon attendee is slated to be sworn in to the Sweet Home City Council next week. A Timber Unity rally in Salem, Ore. in February 2020. (Justin Katigbak) Updated January 9 Among the demonstrators on the...

Polarized Groups Unite to Protect Rivers and Salmon January 3, 2021 In Part 1 of this series, Associate Professor in the Forest Engineering and Management Department of Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, Kevin Bladon, helped illuminate the massive costs wildfires can accrue long after their flames have been put out. There is a dizzying effect to thinking about each and every impact to the hydrology cycle that happens post-fire, and how this all can total to between a ten- and elev...

When California passed its landmark cap-and-trade law in 2006, supporters were hopeful that the program would provide the template for other states — and eventually the federal government — to solve the climate crisis. Now, many environmental groups are increasingly saying the program has done little to curb climate change. Worse, they say, it is harming the lower-income areas and communities of color most affected by pollution. Those environmental justice concerns stopped President-elect J...