Take action now to protect Endangered Place #8 -- the Tillamook State Forest -- from clear-cutting.

Oregonians view themselves as some of the greenest citizens in the country. We ride bikes. We recycle. We get outside and play.

However, compared to our neighbors, we lag far behind in protecting our most pristine landscapes as Wilderness. With only 4% of the state protected (compared to 11% in Washington, 14% in California, and 8% in Idaho) our green credentials are thin when it comes to protecting our public land. A lack of Wilderness protection isn't the only thing threatening our state's wild places.

This summer, we toured the state and identified ten at-risk landscapes. Follow the links on this page to find out more about each threatened locale in our 10 Most Endangered Places report.

Support our work to protect Endangered Places!

While you're looking through the report, remember, for 35 years Oregon Wild has stood up to the challenges facing our last wild places. All along we've done it with the generous support of people like you. Please consider making a special "endangered places" donation to Oregon Wild today. Now is a great time to give to protect Oregon. For every dollar you donate before September 30, two major donors will match your gift with an additional dollar-and-a-half. Please contribute today.

10 Most Endangered Places List:

1. Crater Lake Wildlands
2. Tule Lake and Lower Klamath Lake National Wildlife Refuges
3. Oregon’s Yellowstone—Siskiyou Wild Rivers
   
4. Clackamas River Watershed
5. Wallowa Whitman National Forest
6. Steens Mountain
7. Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
8. Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests
9. Lookout Mountain
10. Wild Rogue

What makes a place “endangered?”

The ten places represented in this report are by no means an exhaustive list of the threatened landscapes in Oregon. From a backyard stream in La Grande to the expanse of our ocean waters, Oregon’s wildlands face constant threats both great and small. Considering this, how then did we select the ten natural areas described in the following pages?

In weighing each endangered place, we considered three primary factors:

• the immediacy and scale of the threat;
• the ecological, cultural, recreational, and scientific importance of the area threatened; and
• the opportunity for an actionable solution
  

Cover photo by Justin Lee. Logging photo by Francis Eatherington.