Fall Creek News

US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a new plan for managing federal forests in Western Oregon .

Twenty Years at Mount Pisgah Bike Riding Drops, or Not OLCV Scorecard Rates Lawmakers Activist Alert Lane Area Herbicide Schedule War Dead Corrections/Clarifications Slant: Short opinion pieces and rumor-chasing notes BLM BACKING OFF LOGGING OLD-GROWTH? Fall Creek, long the site of treesits and logging protests looks like it's getting a reprieve ...

By Heather Hintze June 12, 2009 A FALL CREEK, Ore.--A Protesters from the group Eugene Tide Rising are showing their opposition to the Western Oregon Plan Revision--WOPR--by camping out in a tree in the Fall Creek area.

Eugene-area activists have set up a tree-sit in an area of Fall Creek that could be logged under a Bureau of Land Management plan.

Summer is almost here and so is clearcut season. In an effort to stop Northwest trees from falling on public lands, Cascadia Summer 2009, a direct action campaign, is looking to train people on how to do everything from tree sitting to community and media outreach and lobbying.

CASCADIA SUMMER MAY EVENTS go to FORESTDEFENSENOW.ORG for more info General interest Meeting When: Thursdays Where: 17th and Charnelton, Eugene OR Description: General interest meeting for Cascadia Summer 2009! Come and get plugged in.