by Crag Law Center | Apr 29, 2022 | Wild Victories
Victory for Oregon State Forests! 2022 Court Overturns $1.1 Billion Verdict that Would Have Mandated Maximal Logging On Wednesday, the Oregon Court of Appeals erased the verdict of a 2019 Linn County lawsuit that sought more than a billion dollars from taxpayers on...
by Lyla Boyajian | Apr 9, 2019 | Native Fish, Wildlife
Protecting Key Habitat for Coho Salmon in Oregon Coastal Watersheds The two largest state forests in Oregon, the Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests, contain critical spawning and rearing habitat for the threatened Oregon Coast coho salmon. Since the Coho salmon...
by Crag Law Center | Jun 13, 2018 | Features, Native Fish News, Public Lands News
Today Crag Law Center along with Amy Atwood of The Center for Biological Diversity filed a complaint against the Oregon Department of Forestry for poor logging and road-use practices in the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests that harm threatened coho salmon through...
by Crag Law Center | Feb 5, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
The Crag Law Center and its clients announced today that the State of Oregon has cancelled 28 timber sales that would have logged habitat for the marbled murrelet, an imperiled seabird that nests in coastal old-growth forest.Β With those 28 timber sales off the table,...
by Rena Kittredge | Aug 17, 2010 | Victories, Wild Victories
Crag Protects Rivers from Logging Road Runoff in Groundbreaking Case 2010 In August 2010,Β Crag secured a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that rainwater channeled by logging roads into rivers is pollution and can be regulated under the Clean Water Act. Now, the...
