Category: Press Release

Legislative Action Causes Threat To Estuary

Source: NewsTimes Newspaper Authors Phillip Johnson September 15, 2023

A threat looms over the Coos Bay estuary. This threat could damage fisheries, put public safety at risk, distort the local economy, and reduce the estuary’s capacity for storing carbon and thus helping to moderate climate change. Read More….

Lock Down For Old Growth

Eugene Weekly BY ALICIA SANTIAGO POSTED ON

PHOTO BY ALICIA SANTIAGO

“On the morning of July 5, dozens of community members and organizers from Cascadia Forest Defenders protested outside of Sierra Pacific Industries to stand in solidarity against timber sales.” Read more…. 

 

PUBLIC PROTEST!

Join us and SHOW THE WORLD your thoughts about Spraying Poisons on our land, in our water and thru the air!  
DATE: EVERY SATURDAY 11 am to 1 pm
MEET UP:   WALDPORT!  Hwy 101 and Hwy 34

Bring a sign!
Can’t make it? HONK as you go by!                                                                                       

PUBLIC ACTIVITY- Just For Fun

DATE:     Saturday, December 9, 2023 9 am to 2 pm
PLACE:  CRESTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL GYM AND CAFETERIA
Beachcomber Days Christmas Craft Faire- we will have a make and take Christmas ornament table PLUS it’s a chance to talk to families about protecting our watersheds. Over 70 vendors!   Lots of fun!  email beavercreekstopthespray@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer.  Come for an hour or stay all day!  All help is welcomed!

 

 

Our friends and neighbors who live on Beaver Creek need help.

If you can, please consider supporting them because they need to test water and soil before and after the spray:

NASA imagery shows scale, impact of logging in drinking watersheds on Oregon Coast  

Window open to begin spraying

Original Source: Oregon Capital Chronicle

by: ALEX BAUMHARDT – SEPTEMBER 19, 2023 6:00 AM

The Tillamook State Forest as seen from the summit of King’s Mountain. Bare patches mark spots that have been clearcut.

(Source: Oregon Department of Forestry/Flickr)

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Timber company owner says it will not spray herbicides by helicopter in South Beaver Creek, but use ground crews instead

Source: Yachats News         9.12.2023

The image from a drone video shows some of the seven parcels in the South Beaver Creek watershed that will be ground sprayed with herbicides by Ane Forests of Oregon.
By GARRET JAROS )

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