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Cascadia Wildlands And Oregon Wild
Challenge "Blue And Gold" Timber Sale
| | Image of forests targeted for logging by the Blue and Gold timber sale. | | Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild continue to legally challenge the Roseburg Bureau of Land Management (BLM) District’s Blue and Gold timber sale near the town of Yoncalla, Oregon. This project targets forests hundreds of years old, some of the oldest in Oregon. While the BLM has continued to auction off additional old-growth timber sales during the litigation, the agency is prevented from awarding or moving forward with any of these projects until the case is argued on November 6, 2025, before the Oregon District Court in Eugene. | | |
WA Ecology Issues Rebuke Of Federal Climate Report
And Publishes Analysis Of Local Climate Impacts
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Image of predicted increase in days with maximum humidex above 90 degrees between
2050 and 2079 from the Washington Climate Impacts Group's Climate Mapping Tool.
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“This is not a game – wildfire smoke, heat waves, and drought are putting lives and livelihoods at risk here in Washington. Denying climate change by cherry-picking information won’t alter the reality on the ground, where our communities and ecosystems are experiencing the damage firsthand.”
— Casey Sixkiller, Director, WA Department of Ecology
for Ecology News
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Director of the WA Department of Ecology, Casey Sixkiller, issued an official rebuke of the draft report authored by Climate Working Group for the U.S. Department of Energy, "A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate," on the grounds that the report is biased, lacks scientific integrity, is inconsistent with scientific evidence and observable facts, and fails to account for the best available science on climate change trends and greenhouse gas emissions.
The federal draft report claims, among other things, that climate change "is not the greatest threat facing humanity" and that "CO2-induced warming might be less damaging economically than commonly believed, and excessively aggressive mitigation policies could prove more detrimental than beneficial." The report also minimizes climate change-related risks to water, energy, and food systems.
In contrast to the federal draft report, WA Ecology released its 2025 Summary Report on the Science of Human Caused Climate Change with findings based on the review of scientific studies that support maintaining current limits on greenhouse gases, recommend the development of statutory guidance for carbon dioxide removal to attain net-zero emissions, the development of stronger policies for methane and fluorinated gases, and the acceleration of emission reductions to achieve WA's 2030 statutory limits.
Read Sixkiller's rebuke of the federal draft report and Ecology's 2025 Summary Report of local climate impacts below.
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