by FSEEE | Mar 31, 2023 | FSEEE in the News
Alex Wigglesworth, environment reporter with the Los Angeles Times, wrote a good news story about our fire retardant lawsuit. “As the use of aerially delivered retardant has soared in recent years,” she writes, “some forest advocates say the...
by FSEEE | Dec 3, 2022 | Briefly
The Oregon Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a $1 billion lawsuit that sought to define the “greatest permanent value” of forests as timber revenue. The 13 counties that brought the lawsuit gave forestland to the state in the 1930s and ’40s. Oregon manages the land...
by FSEEE | Oct 13, 2022 | Inside FSEEE
Sixty days have passed since FSEEE delivered a notice of intent to file a lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service for its use of fire retardant in violation of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Forest Service has not responded, so we have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...
by FSEEE | Jan 12, 2022 | Victories
After FSEEE won a preliminary injunction to halt the Willamette National Forest Danger Tree Reduction Project, the U.S. Forest Service has decided to withdraw the project. We’re sending out a big “Thank you!” to all of you who made donations to help...
by FSEEE | Dec 31, 2016 | Victories
As the year comes to a close, we’d like to take a moment to share with you a few of the victories we’ve celebrated so far in 2016. A few of our achievements this year include: Defeating Dangerous Legislation Reining in the War on Wildfire Keeping Helicopters Out of...