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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 Biden's 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 troops are readying to help law enforcement respond to potentially violent demonstrations around the s...

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 in recent years, including the 2016 armed occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. Many of the ex...

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 National Mall in Washington, D.C., as a mob invaded the Capitol yesterday were two public figures f...

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 eleven-digit dollar figure of loss.    In the second of this two-part series, Bladon informs me of so...

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 Joe Biden from picking Mary Nichols, who leads the California Air Resources Board — the agency that...