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Speak up for rivers and fish in Oregon's Integrated Water Resources Strategy update!
Take a survey to help Oregon’s rivers!
May 23, 2023
Please lend your voice to the water needs of rivers, fish, wildlife and people who depend on healthy rivers as part of Oregon’s Integrated Water Resources Strategy (IWRS) update!
Speak up for rivers and fish in Oregon's Integrated Water Resources Strategy update!
May 8, 2023
Please lend your voice to the water needs of rivers and fish as part of Oregon’s Integrated Water Resources Strategy (IWRS) update!
PLEASE HELP OREGON'S RIVERS BY SPEAKING UP IN SUPPORT OF ODFW'S WATER PROGRAM!
March 20, 2023
If you care about Oregon’s rivers, now is the time to speak up for ODFW’s Water Program. It is critical that the legislature hear your voice!
Tell state officials it’s time for dam operators to add fish passage facilities. Comment now!
September 22, 2022
You can help hold accountable operators of many dams and artificial obstructions that continue to block fish from migrating to important habitats.
Support flow protections for Rogue, Umpqua, and South Coast streams! Comment deadline 5 p.m. tomorrow.
September 1, 2021
Act NOW to urge Oregon Water Resources Department to support new instream water right applications in the Rogue, Umpqua, and South Coast Basins!
Please Speak up for Critical Investments in Oregon’s Waters, Fish and Wildlife!
April 12, 2021
Oregon’s rivers, fish, and wildlife need your help! Please share your input on our water funding priorities for the next two years.
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Mega-Dairy Water Demands!
March 16, 2021
Now is a great chance to comment on the impacts of mega-dairies on Oregon’s water resources.
Reminder: Comments due Feb 18th! Please support flow protections for Rogue, Umpqua, and South Coast streams!
February 16, 2021
Second email: Tell Oregon Water Resources Department to support new Instream Water Rights in Rogue, Umpqua and South Coast streams!
Act now! Please support flow protections for Rogue, Umpqua, and South Coast streams!
February 10, 2021
Tell Oregon Water Resources Department to support new Instream Water Rights in Rogue, Umpqua and South Coast streams!
Stockwatering alert: tell water resources department to close the stockwatering loophole
October 27, 2020
Act NOW to limit new unpermitted use of groundwater for “stockwatering” in the Umatilla basin. Please ask Water Resources Department to close the stockwatering loophole!
HB 2437 RULEMAKING: PROTECT OREGON'S WETLAND
July 27, 2020
The draft rules for HB 2437 fail to fully address our concerns with implementation of this bad bill. Please ask the Department to protect Oregon's wetlands and stop allowing removal-fill of undisturbed and native wetlands!
SUPPORT FISH PASSAGE AT BOWMAN DAM AND THE RESTORATION OF INSTREAM FLOWS IN THE CROOKED RIVER BASIN
June 16, 2020
Bowman Dam is considered the highest priority fish passage barrier in the Deschutes watershed. Please lend your voice today to urge the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to deny the fish passage waiver application that is before it!
TELL CONGRESS TO MAKE FISH A PRIORITY
June 14, 2020
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is asking Congress to approve a plan for dividing water in its 13 Willamette Basin reservoirs (Detroit, Green Peter, Cougar, Lookout Point, Fern Ridge, etc.). But the plan would make already endangered salmon and steelhead even more vulnerable. Please tell your federal Representatives and Senators NOT to approve the plan!
STOP A WASTEFUL GIVEAWAY OF PUBLIC FUNDS: ASK GOVERNOR BROWN TO VETO SECTION 115(15) OF HB 5050
August 7, 2019
Please ask Governor Brown to use her line item veto power this coming Friday to strike down Section 115(15) of HB 5050, which would grant $452,930 of taxpayer funds to a logging and wood products interest group for a sediment study of the lower Rogue River.
PROTECT OUR WETLANDS: ASK GOVERNOR BROWN TO VETO HB 2437
July 30, 2019
Please urge Governor Brown to veto HB 2437 to protect Oregon’s ecologically and economically important wetlands and intermittent streams. Wetlands are critical to Oregon's environment, communities and economic health. It is more important than ever to protect Oregon’s natural resources that help with our state’s climate resiliency goals.
HELP OREGON'S WETLANDS: URGE LEGISLATORS TO OPPOSE HB 2438B
June 24, 2019
Oregon's wetlands and waters need your help! Please contact your state legislators and urge them to oppose HB 2436B! In the last days of the legislative session, developers are making a back door attempt to roll back a bedrock law that has been in place for 40 years which protects Oregon’s wetlands, estuaries, rivers, and streams.
REDUCE HARM FROM MEGA-DAIRIES: Ask legislators to support sb 103
March 8, 2019
Please contact your state legislators and urge them to support Senate Bill 103! Earlier this year, the mega-dairy known as Lost Valley Farm near Boardman shuttered under a cloud of permit violations, drug arrests, and bankruptcy. The mega-dairy was also was exploiting an old loophole in Oregon’s water-use permitting requirements meant to benefit smaller livestock operations, not industrial mega-dairies. The Oregon Legislature is now considering a bill to prevent a repeat of this disaster.
Tell your Senators to vote NO on anti-salmon Interior Secretary nominee
February 8, 2019
Please tell your senators you expect them to vote "NO" on the nomination of David Bernhardt to be the next Secretary of the Interior. Bernhardt is a former oil, agribusiness, and mining lobbyist. He spent a decade representing wealthy agribusiness groups seeking to undo protections for struggling salmon populations in California's biggest rivers.
Show support for the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife’s Water Program!
April 11, 2018
Please attend a hearing concerning ODFW's process of developing its 2019-2021 budget request. In early April they will be holding public town hall meetings across the state, and accepting public comments via email and regular mail through May 1.
Ask Governor Brown to Close the “Stockwatering” Loophole in Oregon’s Water Laws
April 10, 2018
New mega-dairy in Eastern Oregon, has been using the “stockwatering” exemption in Oregon’s water laws, and could take about a million gallons of water per day from an already compromised aquifer in the Umatilla Basin.
Help Stop the Water Grab Endangering Klamath Waterfowl!
March 23, 2018
Help avoid another catastrophic die-off of migratory birds as millions of migrating birds bear down on the Klamath Basin this spring. Officials recently proposed draining what little water is left in the refuge's publicly-owned wetlands to serve private agribusiness interests, risking serious injury to waterfowl.