Wildlands

• Our coalition to protect the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness celebrated a successful Senate committee hearing and a subcommittee hearing in the topsy-turvy U.S. House.
• As part of the Wild Rogue Alliance, we cheered as our 58,000 acre Wilderness proposal made it on to the short list of Crown Jewels, recommended for protection by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.
• With our attorneys at Earthjustice, we drove another nail into the coffin of the Western Oregon Plan Revisions, as a Portland judge recommended the controversial logging plan be scrapped.
• Generated over 1,000 grassroots comments on the proposed National Forest Planning Rule to ensure strong protections for public forests across the country.
• For the second time in 5 years, won the Two Chiefs’ Award from the USFS and NRCS for our pioneering collaborative work on the Siuslaw National Forest.
  

Wildlife

• Finalized settlement on Survey and Manage program (after winning a key court case) that protects hundreds of lesser known, yet critically important, species living in public forests.
• Halted the killing of two Imnaha Pack wolves after challenging the legality of the lethal control section of the state’s Wolf Management Plan.
• Defeated anti-wildlife measures in the Oregon Legislature that would have significantly weakened the state’s wolf management plan by taking decisions out of the hands of wildlife biologists and making it easier for private citizens to kill wolves.
• Successfully petitioned for ESA protections for Klamath spring Chinook, triggering a status review of the population that could lead to potential protections.
  

Waters

• Funded several projects in the Klamath watershed to enhance riparian and terrestrial restoration efforts.
• Joined a coalition of groups defending the Clean Water Act after attacks emerged from an unlikely source in Sen. Ron Wyden.
• Moved the Molalla Wild & Scenic proposal closer to passage in Congress with a successful Senate subcommittee hearing.
  

Connecting people to wild places

• Led nearly 40 wildflower, mushroom, snowshoe, and old-growth hikes to protected and proposed Wilderness areas across the state, engaging hundreds of supporters in our work.
• Organized seventh annual Outdoor Photo Contest with over 90 participants, and expanded our unveiling events to include celebrations in Portland and Eugene.
• Released the third annual 10 Most Endangered Places report featuring Klamath wetlands as the #1 most threatened place in the state.