Author: Cascadia Forest Defenders
About Cascadia Forest Defenders
Cascadia Forest Defenders is a grassroots environmental organization committed to stopping the destruction of the Earth, particularly in the region know as Cascadia. We organize collective, nonviolent actions to disrupt the ecologically and economically exploitative industrial timber industry and the 1%. We also offer training and resources to other groups working for environmental and social justice.
Eugene Community Blockades Sierra Pacific Mill in Protest of Public Lands Logging
Report on recent logging blockade in protest of the logging of public lands in so-called Eugene, Oregon. Dozens of community members and... Read Full Article
Activists Hang Banner Across Major Highway As Community Prepares to Fight Old Growth Logging Project
Action report from Cascadia Forest Defenders on opposition to the proposed Flat County old growth timber sale. This morning, community members organizing... Read Full Article
Students in Eugene Disrupt Timber Industry Presentation to Protest Post-Fire Logging
Report on disruption of lumber industry presentation in so-called Eugene, Oregon. Eugene, OR – Dozens of University of Oregon students with the... Read Full Article
Dozens Risk Arrest to Protest Ongoing Post-Fire Logging In Breitenbush Watershed
Report on mass community action in Oregon in defense of post-fire clear-cutting in the Breitenbush watershed. Detroit, OR – This morning, community organizers... Read Full Article
Protestors End Occupation of Timber Sale After Over Two Weeks In Trees
Cascadia Forest Defenders promise to continue fight against logging of old-growth after showing timber industry they will not let logging proceed without... Read Full Article
Protestors Launch Tree Sit to Protect Old Growth Willamette Forest from Logging
Report on Cascadia Forest Defenders on tree-sit in the Willamette National Forest to stop timber sale. Willamette National Forest – Members of... Read Full Article
Call to Action: Blockade at Oregon’s Goose Timber Sale, Help Needed
McKENZIE BRIDGE, OR – On October 23, Cascadia Forest Defenders [CFD] erected a road blockade at the entrance to the “W” Timber... Read Full Article
Logging at the ‘Goose’ Timber Sale: A Call to Action from Cascadia Forest Defenders
The Forest Defender tree sit was searched and extensively photographed Wednesday October 18th by Lane County Sherriff’s Deputies and Forest Service Officers... Read Full Article
Oregon: Activists Sit in the Way of McKenzie Watershed Logging
McKENZIE BRIDGE, OR – Cascadia Forest Defenders (CFD) has initiated a tree sit on the Goose Timber Sale area surrounding McKenzie Bridge,... Read Full Article
Bureau of Land Management Auction Disrupted
The first timber sales designed under the new Revised Management Plan (RMP) were offered at auction today at the Bureau of Land... Read Full Article