Fish and Wildlife News Archive
Up one levelA search of press items and news clips on the Oregon Wild website that are related to wildlife.
- Oregon Wild and WaterWatch respond to the release of a Klamath Settlement deal that doesn't include dam removal and fails to provide adequate water for endangered salmon.
- The EPA calls out the WOPR and the Governor urges a complete look as the comment period on the BLM plan ends.
- U.S. Senator says WOPR will go nowhere, thinning dense plantations is the way forward.
- Senator Ron Wyden hosts a roundtable discussion, highlighting need for forest protection and restoration.
- As the deadline to comment on the BLM's WOPR approaches, comments pour in from across the state.
- The Bush administration drops its attempt to pursue new management rules for National Forests.
- Several fishing and hunting groups in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest have come together to oppose a plan that would increase logging on Bureau of Land Management lands in Western Oregon
- Oregon Wild and the Wilderness Society take a look at the economic underpinnings of the BLM's WOPR and find the numbers don't add up.
- Hunters and anglers let the BLM know that increased clear-cut logging will be bad for fish and wildlife.
- Outdoor groups challenge BLM plan to increase clear-cutting in western Oregon.
- Report says plan for western Oregon would threaten watersheds, forests
- BLM plan - Hunters and fishermen say tripling logging acres would harm the habitats of prized game
- One Idaho hunter describes his relationship with the animals he hunts and the predators he shares the forest with.
- The Eugene Register Guard says letting the BLM know how bad their WOPR plan is should top your new year's resolution list.
- The Herald and News Editorial Board says conflicts likely to remain once proposal is public.
- Oregon Wild and WaterWatch join in calling for a real, comprehensive solution to the Klamath Basin water conflict.
- Federal officials announced Tuesday that they’re naming Portland scientist, Stephen Courtney, to lead the scientific review of the federal effort to save the northern spotted owl. Environmentalists wasted no time in heaping skepticism on what they consider an effort to salvage the credibility of the plan. The idea is that the outside panel will provide transparency amid accusations of undue political influence from the Bush Administration on science. But as Rob Manning reports, environmentalists are concerned about what happens after the independent group finishes its work.
- The action stops short of scrapping the plan, which would allow more logging
- The recent discovery of a pair of wolf tracks in Northeastern Oregon has the Oregonian editorial board thinking romance.
- Months after a lone gray wolf was shot and killed in Northeast Oregon, a pair of wolf tracks have been found near the Eagle Cap Wilderness.

