Sept. 7, 2023

While repairs on the Winchester Dam are complete, the environmental cost to native fish and habitat is just beginning to be tallied. ODFW must hold the dam's owners and operators accountable for the chaos of August on the North Umpqua.

Aug. 26, 2023

Tell your elected officials to support removal of Winchester Dam near Roseburg and restore a free-flowing North Umpqua River that benefits native fish, wildlife, and Oregon communities that depend on it.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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!

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.

March 16, 2021

Now is a great chance to comment on the impacts of mega-dairies on Oregon’s water resources.

February 16, 2021

Second email: Tell Oregon Water Resources Department to support new Instream Water Rights in 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!

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!

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!

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!

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! 

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.  

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.