Conservation Today

We talk with Ken Carloni and Kasey Hovik about changing the "Douglas" reference, for Douglas County, from Stephen Douglas (a politician) to David Douglas (the botanist who first described the Douglas fir tree). In the first half we also discuss the racist beginnings of Oregon, including the racist views of Joseph Lane, who Roseburg's middle school is named after. In the second half we also discuss the ecological practices of Native Americans in Oregon. It all makes for a fascinating discussion.

In honor of David Douglas's work naming Oregons plants, our ending song is about naming wildlife, "A Crash of Rhinoceros" by Carrie Newcomer.

In this conversation, we reference:

The Douglas County Museum: http://umpquavalleymuseums.org/museums/douglas-county-museum/

and Umpqua Watersheds: https://umpquawatersheds.org/

Check back here to find a link to the petition Ken Carloni is writing so the Douglas County commissioners can officially change the Douglas County name reference. Or, just ask the commissioners to do it now.

In this conversation with Gordon Marvin we talk about a landslide that ripped through

his community, Stump Acres, near Umpqua Oregon in 1996. It came out of a 9-year-old

clearcut above their property, and killed 4 people, including Gordon's wife, Sharon Marvin,

and his two friends Rick and Susan Moon. I was unsuccessful in getting someone from

the Oregon Department of Forestry to talk to us about how logging rules changed as a

result of this slide, to now include a (small) public safety component.

Gordon and I cover some additional private-land logging issues, including aerial spray

rules. Public notice for aerial spraying has recently been strengthened. You can read about

that here: https://www.wildsalmoncenter.org/2020/02/10/what-is-the-new-oregon-timber-pact/?emci=b3c4dbbc-fcb7-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=

or listen to an interview with Ralph Bloomers who talks about it on this show earlier

this year. We also talk about the FERNS reporting system, where the public can sign up

to receive all logging notices in places important to them, such as their home.

FERNS can be accessed here. https://ferns.odf.oregon.gov/E-Notification/

This is a recording of the April 7 WildChat webinar from Cascadia Wildlands concerning the community resistance to Jordan Cove. It includes Deb Evans, an impacted landowner threatened with eminent domain, Gabe Scott, on the legal team, and Ka'ila Farrel-Smith, a Klamath Modoc artist and anti-pipeline activist. Sam Krop from Cascadia Wildlands is the moderator.

Here is a link to the video of this conversation:

https://vimeo.com/405639387?fbclid=IwAR1dtYbQqkmT2VOd48cSr5r0yCXtW-1spuM_D8KGHr9uZw2pxUbYwdD_dzo

To join future the WildChat webinars of Cascadia Wildlands, go here:

https://www.cascwild.org/weekly-wildchats-with-cascadia/

To read more about the Landowners facing Eminent Domain:

https://www.ourland-ourlives.org/

To Donate to their legal defense, click on the donate button on that website, which will bring you here:

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-the-pacific-connector-easement-action-team

Deb Evans also mentioned this site for landowner issues:

http://www.36inchesmovie.com/watch.html

The music at the end is "Cherokee River" by Walela, from their album Walela.

This is a March 19, 2020 presentation sponsored by the Great Old Broads for Wilderness about the Jordan Cove Energy Project. It was supposed to be a live panel given in Portland. But with Corvid, the live presentation was replaced by a webinar, and thus you get to listed to it. In the morning of March 19, the U.S. Government gave the Canadian corporation, Pembina, permission to condemn land for the Jordan Cove Energy Project. So it was a timely presentation.

We hear from myself, Francis Eatherington, Pam Ordway, a landowner near Camas Valley whose land is threatened with eminent domain, Damon Motz-Storey from Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Anu Sawkar, an attorney with Crag Law Center.

The Great Old Broads for Wilderness is a grassroots organization, led by women, that engages and inspires activism to preserve and protect wilderness and wild lands. You can read more about the Broads, and join your local broadband, at: https://www.greatoldbroads.org/

You can read more about impacted landowners here:

https://www.ourland-ourlives.org/, and help donate their legal defense here:

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/support-the-pacific-connector-easement-action-team

Damon Motz-Storey works on the intersection of health, climate change, and fossil fuel threats with the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility. You can support their work at:

https://www.oregonpsr.org/donate

You can also read Oregon & Washington PSR's report on the health threats of fracked gas at: https://www.oregonpsr.org/fracked_gas_a_threat_to_healthy_communit

Anu Sawkar is an attorney at Crag Law, a nonprofit law firm that provides legal aid for communities, climate, and the wild in the Pacific Northwest. Learn more about Crag Law at: crag.org. Currently donations to support Crag made through Benevity will be matched 1:1!: https://mygoodness.benevity.org/community/cause/840-931323758

Should nature have rights, like people have rights and corporations have rights? Will Falk, from Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, helped bring a federal lawsuit seeking rights for the Colorado River. Will talks about the Colorado River, his book, and why nature deserves to have rights.

For more information, see https://celdf.org.

The ending song is "Battered Earth", by Sweet Honey in the Rock, from their album "Twenty Five".

Ralph Bloomers, from the Craig Law Center, will explain the MOU and legislation supported by 13 environmental groups and 13 industrial timber operators. It would require logging buffers on streams in the Siskiyou watersheds to be as large as our more northern watersheds. It would require larger buffers for helicopters that spray pesticides from the air. Homes and schools now get only a 60' buffer (Washington state gives 200'). The new legislation would help protect school children and families with a 300' buffer from aerial-sprayed herbicides next to homes and schools.

For more information about Ralph's organization, see: https://crag.org/

For more information about aerial spraying in Oregon, see: https://www.beyondtoxics.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/FINAL_Report_OregonIndustrialForest_and_HerbicideUse_12-17-13.pdf

And here: https://oregonwild.org/support-regulation-aerial-herbicide-spraying

Pictures of aerial spraying that I took around me are here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/umpquawild/0V4cBv

Ending song is by Alice DiMicele, "Defend The Earth", from her "Searching" album. Alice will play us this music in Roseburg on March 22.

First, we talk with Stuart Leibowitz, from the Douglas County Global Warming Coalition, about Oregon's new "Cap and Invest" bill, SB 1530, this year's version of the proposal to limit carbon emissions in Oregon.

Stuart will also talk about the rally in Salem in support of this bill on February 11, and how to get there from Roseburg.

To join the carpool, call 541-672-9819. For more information, see: https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCountyGlobalWarmingCoalition/,

and http://www.douglascountyglobalwarmingcoalition.com/

In the second half of the show we speak with Mike Burk about his experience working in Alaska, and the problems with the Trump Administrations roadless rule for Alaska's forest ecosystems. For more information, see:

https://www.conservationnw.org/news-updates/joint-comments-on-proposed-alaska-roadless-rule-exemption/

and

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2019/new-legislation-protecting-roadless-rule-is-key-for-preserving-america-s-forests

The song at the end is "The Tree" by Dana Lyons, from the album One Land, One Heart.

Samantha Krop works with Cascadia Wildlands. https://www.cascwild.org/

Sam talks about the federal timber sales, including Roseburg BLM sales in Douglas County. One alarming sale is "Umpqua Sweets" in the North Umpqua watershed. Pictures can be seen here:

https://www.cascwild.org/umpqua-sweets-chronicles-vol-1-down-by-the-riverside/

https://www.cascwild.org/umpqua-sweets-chronicles-vol-4-community/

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmHuWwvZ

Lone Rock Timber's new road, built through BLM old growth last year ,will now be used by BLM to log the forest on either side of the road. https://flic.kr/s/aHskvJ7H4Q

Samantha also talks about the Elliott State Forest and the problems with turning it over to Oregon State University for a research forest. Other OSU research forests can be seen here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmJXoymE

Finally, Sam talks about the Jordan Cove Project, a proposal to ship Canadian fracked gas to Asia via Oregon. Pictures of the most recent public opposition in Salem this past November can be seen here: https://flic.kr/s/aHskeHwyL8

To get involved in timber sale monitoring, email [email protected] and join the Cascadia Wildlands Wildcat monitoring team. https://www.cascwild.org/about-us/volunteer-opportunities/wildcat/

Ending song is "Have You Been To Jail For Justice", by Anne Feeney

Jason Gonzales, with Oregon Wild, talks about the Oregon Forest Practices Act, (OFPA) and how it fails to protect Oregon's forest ecosystems. We have the weakest logging rules for private lands in the Pacific Northwest. Jason details the economic and environmental problems with the OFPA. In the second half of this conversation, Jason talks about three (or six) ballot measures that are proposed to be in front of voters November 2020, and how you can help.

Ballot initiatives described here, with good information on Oregon forests: https://forestwaters.org/

North Coast Communities for Watershed Protection. Sign up to help this process: https://healthywatershed.org/

Jason referred to these Oregonian news articles describing broken legislative process:

https://projects.oregonlive.com/polluted-by-money/

And the newest from the Oregonian:

https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2019/11/timber-interests-propose-three-pro-logging-ballot-measures.html?fbclid=IwAR3VITHmoXhqMt0glZxJzU9ijYxRhljqRvnDTkr-UWtt2ZWUefHFDkIiXlY

Don't miss this movie describing the problems with logging regulations on private industrial forest land:

Behind the Emerald Curtin: https://youtu.be/Q0j_Msmz44M

The great work by Oregon Wild, Jason's organization, seen here: http://oregonwild.org/

Song at the end is "Song For Oregon" by our own Marnie Albritten when she was with the band Girls Can Jam.

If you want it, send me an email and I'll send it to you. francis at mydfn dot net

Stuart Leibowitz discusses three upcoming ballot measures the Douglas County Global Warming Coalition is trying to get in front of voters, especially since the Cap and Invest bill failed earlier this years due to the republican walk-out.

Stuart also describes an important upcoming event you don't want to miss: October 30, 6:30 at the Roseburg Library: "Moving toward a fossil fuel free future". With professor Randall Bluffstone and Dylan Kruse from Sustainable Northwest. (We talked with Dylan Kruse on this program last year. https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=329967).

To support the Douglas County Global Warming Coalition, make checks out to OEC, and mail to: 143 SE Lane, Roseburg 97470. (OEC is the Oregon Environmental Council. Put Douglas County... in the memo).

For more information: https://www.facebook.com/DouglasCountyGlobalWarmingCoalition/

The song at end is "Power From Above" by Dan Berggren. Free download here: https://soundcloud.com/berggrenfolk/power-from-above