Cascadia Wildlands
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| Formation | 1998 |
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| Type | nonprofit organization |
| Headquarters | Eugene, Oregon |
Region served | Pacific Northwest |
| Website | cascwild.org |
Cascadia Wildlands is a grassroots conservation organization which was first established in 1998. During 1998, a group of passionate students and community members registered a strong protest to the clear cutting in Oregon's Cascades and Coast Range and wanted to take action to against the clear cutting; therefore, they set up the organization Cascadia Wildlands and decided to take action to against the rampant clear cutting through this organization. In addition, the organization has been grown and used to protect both Wildlands and endangered wildlife.[1]
As a matter fact, Cascadia Wildlands has protected millions of acres of wild forests and rivers after their founding in 1998.The members in the Cascadia Wildlands keep their purpose for educating, agitating, and inspiring the movement to protect and restore wild ecosystems in Cascadia. For deciding the protecting plan, Cascadia Wildlands is guided by a diverse board of directors and council of advisors. Also, the organization includes a group of staffs who are talented professionals to identify which wild places need to be protected. And a number of activities are following the protecting plan:[2]
- Organizing citizens to take action
- Leading hikes to threatened areas
- Talking with media
- Presenting in classrooms
- Suing governments when they break the law
- Hosting community events
- Working with land managers to design restoration projects
To sum up, Cascadia Wildlands helps to protect the wild lands and wildlife by advocating, organizing, collaborating, litigating, educating, and agitating.
Furthermore, Cascadia Wildlands want to encourage more people to help them to do the protection. In fact, Cascadia has already being supported by thousands of community members, progressive businesses, philanthropic foundations, passionate volunteers. And, it also includes a dedicated board of directors and an advisory board to help the organization running.[3]
Obviously, Cascadia Wildlands wants to achieve their vision through their actions. The members in Cascadia Wildlands have a great longing for the future of the Cascadia bioregion; that they envision the Cascadia bioregion could includes vast old-growth forests, wild salmon, and wolves howling in the backcountry. Indeed, they imagine Cascadia bioregion could become vibrant communities through their effort. And Cascadia Wildlands has really grown into a regional conservation leader after 1998.[4]
Office Location
Cascadia Wildlands with offices in Eugene, Oregon, and Cordova, Alaska with a stated focus on protecting environmentally threatened locations between Oregon and Alaska.[5] The organization was first established in 1998.[5]
Activities
During the past years, Cascadia Wildlands has been involved in legal efforts to stop logging campaigns in public forests,[6][7] to prevent the killing of wolves by government agencies,[8][9] and to stop the construction of a road in a national recreation area.[10]And Cascadia Wildlands also organized a number of events to support the protection:
- Annual Wonderland Auction
- Hoedown for Cascadia’s Ancient Forests
- Pints Gone Wild
- Devil’s Staircase Hikes
- Into The Wild
External links
References
- ↑ "About Us". Cascadia Wildlands. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "About Us". Cascadia Wildlands. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "About Us". Cascadia Wildlands. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- ↑ "About Us". Cascadia Wildlands. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
- 1 2 "Cascadia Wildlands - about us". Cascadia Wildlands. 2011. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ Palmer, Susan (2009). "Several groups file lawsuits challenging logging plan". The Register-Guard. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ Mortensen, Eric (2012). "Conservation groups say logging approved by Oregon Department of Forestry harms marbled murrelets". The Oregonian. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ "Court Asked to Kill Idaho, Montana Wolf Hunts". Environment News Service. 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ McDonald, Rachael (2011). "Conservation Groups Challenge Wolf Kill". Oregon Public Broadcasting. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ↑ "Conservationists Sue to Stop New ORV Road Across Oregon Dunes". Environment News Service. 2009. Retrieved 25 January 2012.