Cascadia Wildlands
“To defend and restore Cascadia’s wild ecosystems.”
3 live lawsuits, 6 comments to the agencies, 87 cents of every dollar to the work.
The origin
How they started
Cascadia Wildlands grew out of the 1990s forest defense movement in western Oregon and incorporated in 1997, first as the Cascadia Forest Monitoring Project. It works to defend and restore Pacific Northwest forests and wildlife, often through litigation against federal timber sales and trapping rules. The Eugene group ran an Alaska field office in Cordova until 2017, fighting threats to the Tongass, the Chugach, and the Copper River watershed.
Where the money went, FY2025
The work, and what it cost
1)Halting Massive Mature
$1.2M, 87% of spendingAnd old-growth timber sales on public land in western Oregon proposed by the Bureau of Land Management through grassroots organizing and litigation campaigns.
Including $109,190 granted onward, most of it ($60,000) to Beyond Toxics.
Read it as they filed it
1)HALTING MASSIVE MATURE AND OLD-GROWTH TIMBER SALES ON PUBLIC LAND IN WESTERN OREGON PROPOSED BY THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT THROUGH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND LITIGATION CAMPAIGNS. 1)HALTING MASSIVE MATURE AND OLD-GROWTH TIMBER SALES ON PUBLIC LAND IN WESTERN OREGON PROPOSED BY THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT THROUGH GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING AND LITIGATION CAMPAIGNS. 2)ADVANCING AN AMENDMENT TO THE NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN THAT EMBRACES TRIBAL INCLUSION IN FOREST PLANNING AND STRENGTHENS SAFEGUARDS FOR MATURE AND OLD-GROWTH FORESTS. 3)SUCCESSFULLY URGING THE OREGON STATE LAND BOARD TO APPROVE A FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE RECENTLY CREATED ELLIOTT STATE RESEARCH FOREST THAT PRIORITIZES CARBON STORAGE, SALMON AND WILDLIFE RECOVERY, AND TRIBAL INCLUSION. 4)LAUNCHING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD FOR ONGOING VIOLATIONS OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT FOR FAILURE TO PROVIDE EFFECTIVE FISH PASSAGE FOR BULL TROUT AND CHINOOK SALMON AT TRAIL BRIDGE DAM ON THE MCKENZIE RIVER. 5)AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE PACIFIC WOLF COALITION, SUCCESSFULLY ADVOCATING FOR GRAY WOLF RECOVERY, WHICH SAW A 15% POPULATION INCREASE OVER THE PAST YEAR IN OREGON. 6)LAUNCHING A LAWSUIT AGAINST THE US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE FOR FAILURE TO LIST THE NORTH OREGON COAST POPULATION OF THE RED TREE VOLE AS A PROTECTED SPECIES UNDER THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT. 7)AS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE OREGON WILDLIFE COALITION, ACHIEVING THE PASSAGE OF THE BEAVER AND WATER QUALITY PROTECTION BILL, WHICH PROHIBITS TRAPPING AND HUNTING IN IMPAIRED WATER BODIES ON PUBLIC LANDS IN OREGON. 8)ADVANCING STRATEGIES TO AID THE JUST TRANSITION OFF FOSSIL FUELS IN BUILDINGS IN EUGENE THROUGH OUR LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE FOSSIL FREE EUGENE COALITION.
IRS Form 990 Part III for fiscal year 2025, signed under penalty of perjury.
Follow the dollar
87 cents of every dollar goes to the work
A good sign, not a scorecard: what matters is the extremes, and this is nowhere near one.
$1,203,669 programs, $68,228 management, $110,160 fundraising. Form 990, FY2025.
The backers
Backed, each with its source, by Patagonia Org, Wilburforce Foundation, Marin Community Foundation and 4 others, latest filing FY25.
The people
Who does the work
Honesty note: leadership comes from each year’s federal filing, so it can run a year behind. If it’s out of date, tell us. Work at Cascadia Wildlands? Claim this page.
Those 75 volunteers are people who decided this ground was theirs to defend. If Cascadia Wildlands is fighting for your place too, the matchmaker will find your way in.
Find your way inThe record
The court record
And 7 more in our case database: a selection we track, not their full docket.
Fights alongside Oregon Wild (6 shared cases), Center for Biological Diversity (3 shared cases), Conservation Northwest (2 shared cases), Klamath Forest Alliance (2 shared cases) and Alaska Wilderness League (1 shared case) and 6 more. Same case, same side, on the federal docket.
The filings
15 years of filings
Total revenue by fiscal year as filed. Point at or tap the line for any year.
| Year | Revenue |
|---|---|
| 2011 | $273,704 |
| 2012 | $384,121 |
| 2013 | $334,101 |
| 2014 | $372,134 |
| 2015 | $309,920 |
| 2016 | $373,882 |
| 2017 | $405,414 |
| 2018 | $482,384 |
| 2019 | $606,743 |
| 2020 | $354,245 |
| 2021 | $1,080,112 |
| 2022 | $1,425,478 |
| 2023 | $1,065,481 |
| 2024 | $1,007,029 |
| 2025 | $1,617,698 |
From $274K in 2011 to $1.6M in FY25, with no missed filing in 15 years. FY25 is the highest year on file.
The returns as e-filed with the IRS, 3 years:
- FY2025Download the return
- FY2024Download the return
- FY2023Download the return
Source: IRS Form 990 e-file data, each return by its IRS object id, served by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer. A year in the chart without a link here is read from a later return’s own history table; its return is on ProPublica’s page for the group.
The record
On the record with the agencies
6 comments on federal decisions since 2023, each filed under the group’s own name on regulations.gov, none yet on a decision we track. Read them on regulations.gov.
Year by year
In order
- 1997Cascadia Wildlands is formed.the directory; the return’s own formation year is 1999
- 20102010 to 2026: 9 cases filed, all since closed: Cascadia Wildlands v. United States Bureau of Land Management; Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. United States Bureau of Land Management and 7 more.the docket
The other 7
2024, Cascadia Wildlands v. United States Bureau of Land Management, closed; 2015, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council v. U.S. Forest Service, closed; 2014, In re Big Thorne Project & 2008 Tongass Forest Plan, lost; 2026, Environmental Protection Information Center v. National Marine Fisheries Service, closed; 2020, Environmental Protection Information Center v. United States Fish And Wildlife Service, closed; 2010, Cascadia Wildlands v. United States Forest Service, closed; 2022, Cascadia Wildlands v. Adcock, closed.
- 2022First appears in Wilburforce Foundation’s grants.the funder’s return
- 2023First appears in Patagonia Org’s grants.the funder’s return
- 20241 comment to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- First appears in the grants of Burning Foundation, Lazar Foundation and Oregon Community Foundation.the funders’ returns
- 2025Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center v. Burgum: plaintiff, still in court.the docket
- American Forest Resource Council v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service: intervenor, still in court.the docket
- 5 comments, most to the Fish and Wildlife Service, under the group’s own name.regulations.gov
- First appears in the grants of Marin Community Foundation and Meyer Memorial Trust.the funders’ returns
- 2026Cascadia Wildlands v. Burgum: plaintiff, still in court.the docket
Rust, a case still in court. Green, a funder’s return. Hollow, a filing. Every row comes from a public record: 12 federal cases with the group on the docket, 6 comments filed under its own name, 7 funders whose returns name it. Nothing here is written from memory.
Their ground
The places they defend
Serial litigant against western Oregon BLM logging, from the 2016 management plan challenge to the current round of timber sale suits
Who’s defending it On the record · Critical threat42 Divide Timber ProjectPlaintiff in the January 2026 suit against the Roseburg BLM plan to log nearly 7,000 acres near Camas Valley
Who’s defending it On the record · Critical threatLast Chance Timber SaleCo-plaintiff in the federal challenge to the 8,420-acre old-growth sale east of Sunny Valley
Who’s defending it On the record · On watchWestern Oregon State ForestsPlaintiff in the coho suit settled in March 2023 by an agreement requiring the Oregon Department of Forestry to widen stream buffers and inventory its road network across the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests.
Who’s defending it On the record · On watchElliott State Research ForestSued Oregon in 2012 with the Center for Biological Diversity and Bird Alliance of Oregon (then Portland Audubon) over logging murrelet habitat, a suit the state settled in 2014 by dropping 26 timber sales, and was among the groups that won the 2024 Ninth Circuit ruling blocking Scott Timber from clearcutting the Benson Ridge parcel.
Who’s defending itMost urgent first: open comment windows, then live federal cases, then the threat level. See every threatened place on one map, and who stands for each.
The Oregon congressional delegation averages 86 of 100 on public lands. See the full scorecard
Get Involved
Where you can help them
- Wed, Dec 2 · MeetingMonthly WildCAT Meeting
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Ways in
How to help
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