2008 Press Releases
- Legacy Roads Fund Restores and Protects Portland’s Water Supply
- Coastal Cutthroat Trout to Be Considered for Endangered Species Protection
- Rep. Norm Dicks to Keynote at Watershed and Forest Roads Conference
- Over 500,000 miles of under-funded and deteriorating roads crisscross our national forests, compromising water quality and harming endangered salmon and steelhead. Changing patterns of precipitation and large storm events are causing increasingly frequent road blowouts. Rep. Dicks will discuss congressional funding designed to restore roads in these critical ecosystems.
- Oregon Coho Salmon Regain Federal Protection
- NOAA Fisheries announced that it will once again list Oregon Coastal coho salmon as a "threatened" species under the federal Endangered Species Act. This action follows a recent court ruling which found that the agency's 2006 decision to deny listing to coho was not based on best available science.
- Conservationists Challenge Federal Approvals of Rock Creek Mine Plan
- New Report Shows Federal Policy Ignores Many Benefits and Exaggerates Costs of Conserving Habitat for Endangered/ Threatened Species
- Bush Administration, Timber Industry Deal Challenged in Oregon
- Court Considers Interim Measures to Protect California's Sensitive Native Fish and Amphibians from Fish Stocking
- Conservation Groups, State Reach Agreement On Measures to Protect Native Fish, Amphibians from Fish-Stocking
