More information about the WOPR can be found at these links:

Public Protest and Governor Comment Deadline is December 8, 2008 !

Read the letter from Commissioner Pete Sorenson to the Governor.

Read the letter from CPA President Bob O’Brien to the Register Guard.

The draft WOPR Final EIS and comments from the public about the draft are at www.blm.gov/or/plans/wopr

For an easy How-To on submitting your protest, which gives our cause more legal standing (this applies to anyone who submitted comments on the WOPR Draft EIS to the BLM) and for Google Earth views of public forests threatened under the WOPR Final EIS, to figure out how to get there, and to post photos of your favorite WOPR-threatened stands, visit coastrange.org/state.htm

For video footage of the recent Salem Tree Sit and Rally on the Capital Steps, go to www.youtube.com/cascadiarisingtide

For information on the WOPR & Beyond Coalition of 20 groups and several sustainable foresters from across W. Oregon, which sponsored the Rally on the Capitol Steps, as well as other important forest issues, visit www.eco-advocates.org

To access presentations on forests and climate change from a day-long Clearcutting the Climate Conference (Jan. 26, 2008), go to www.stopclearcuttingcalifornia.org/html/expertsonvideo.html     For more information on the conference, go to www.forestclimate.org

For in-depth information about the forest-climate connection, check out Doug Heiken's report at tinyurl.com/2n96m5

Check out the Boom, Bust, and the BLM DVD (100% volunteer effort) with stories from rural Oregonians on the ongoing old growth clearcutting by the BLM and citizen surveys to protect these threatened forests. Contains a Citizens' Action Toolkit, useful for any campaign, that can be accessed via computer. Co-produced by Trip Jennings, Tim Lewis, and Cascadia's Ecosystem Advocates. To obtain a DVD, send $5 or a check for that amount to CEA, 454 Willamette St., Suite 205, Eugene, OR 97401