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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 save the NSO haven’t worked because of a more sinister enemy of the bird hiding in plain sight an...

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 of 2020. (Chris Nesseth) Updated February 17 For the past four years, far-right groups, accompan...

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 whether Timber Unity enables right-wing extremists ("Timber Army," Feb. 3, 2021). A conservative grou...

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—he's reminded of the hornet's nest he kicked over. That stretch of highway leading into Toledo, as well as businesses along the town's Main Street, is scattered with more than a dozen Timber Unity signs, Dalbey says. But it's not the signs themselves that bother Dalbey. It's what, in his opinion, they symbolize: far-right extremism. "It's a black eye for the city of Toledo to have 15 goddam...

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 president of the United States, we wake up in two Americas. Americans, and Oregonians, are more divided...