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Groups Act to Protect Beavers to Save Salmon and Frogs

Groups Act to Protect Beavers to Save Salmon and Frogs

November 3, 2017 | Advocacy, Endangered Species, Frogs, Oregon, Salmon

Federal fish and wildlife experts agree on the importance of protecting beavers in order to save threatened and endangered species including salmon, steelhead, and the Oregon spotted frog. Yet the federal Wildlife Services, a department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills over 400 beavers each year in Oregon. Given this one federal agency’s perverse insistence in undermining the goals of federal laws and the work of other agencies, NWEA has joined with the Center for Biological Diversity and Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) in a lawsuit to be filed against Wildlife Services.

NWEA’s Comments on Oregon’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Program

March 28, 2014 | Advocacy, Agriculture, Comments, CZARA, EPA, Frogs, Lawsuits, Logging, NOAA, Nonpoint Sources, OR CZARA, OR Dairies, OR Temperature, Oregon, Oregon Coast, Salamanders, Salmon, Water Quality

Working with the Washington Forest Law Center, NWEA submitted extensive comments on the federal government’s proposed disapproval of Oregon’s Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program.  The comments support the proposed disapproval, focusing primarily on Oregon’s...