Take Action: Sign the petition to Protect the Wild Rogue

Over the last five years, we have been working with local businesses, conservationists, fishermen, rafters and community members to get permanent protection for a major section of the wild Rogue River canyon. A section that is currently unprotected and thus vulnerable to logging, mining and roadbuilding.

Nov. 2011, Reps. DeFazio, Schrader, and Blumenauer introduced a bill to expand the Wild Rogue Wilderness and extend Wild and Scenic Rivers protection to 93 miles of tributary streams in the wild Rogue River canyon (H.B. 3436). In December, Senators Wyden and Merkley introduced companion legislation (S. 2001).

On March 8, 2012, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee held a hearing on the house bill. On March 22, the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests will also hold a hearing. One of our local champions, Dave Strahan, is traveling to Washington to testify before the Senate Subcommittee in support of the Rogue – thank you Dave!

Wild Lands
Learn about our proposal to protect nearly 60,000 acres of wildlands in the lower Rogue watershed.

Wild Rivers
Learn about the approximately 93 miles of Wild Rogue tributaries that should be added to the lower Rogue River Wild & Scenic River system.

Click here to download a fact sheet and learn more about Wilderness and Wild and Scenic protections.