Chapter Home - Conservation Issues
Conservation Issues
Read our newsletter article: Masters of Media Spin Steal the Language of Conservation
Curb Urban Sprawl
Inappropriate development is resulting in the permanent loss of Oregon’s farmland, forests, wetlands, urban natural areas and community-based businesses. We are building public support to reaffirm Oregon’s commitment to sound land use and protection of farm and forestlands and livable communities.
Fight Population Growth
Rapid population growth puts enormous pressure on the environment. The rate at which we consume and degrade natural resources jeopardizes the health of the planet and threatens the availability of clean water and air for generations to come. The Sierra Club's Global Population and Environment Program seeks to protect the global environment and preserve natural resources for future generations by slowing population growth and reducing wasteful consumption.
Learn more about Population Growth
Save Our Wild Salmon
The Sierra Club is one of more than fifty conservation organizations, fishing associations, businesses, and taxpayer advocates comprising the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition that is committed to restoring imperiled wild salmon runs in the Columbia and Snake River basins in the Pacific Northwest.
Learn more about our Wild Salmon
Work For Sustainability
Sustainability is an economic/cultural state where the demands placed upon the natural environment by all species and particularly human beings can be met without reducing the capacity of the natural environment to provide for future generations of all species. The result of not living in a sustainable manner means that the capacity of the natural environment to provide for future generations of living species will be reduced. Our goal is to encourage all individuals and families to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle and reduce their ecological footprint.
Learn more about Living Sustainably
Protect the Tillamook State Forest
The Tillamook and Clatsop State Forests now comprise the largest contiguous temperate rainforest in the lower 48 states. Because of the low elevation and ample rainfall, these forests are renowned for their productive ecosystems. Timber companies and surrounding county governments are ready to claim the trees for economic gain and the timber-biased Oregon Department of Forestry is all too ready to assist them.
Learn more about protecting these beautiful forests!
Improve Water Quality
The Oregon Chapter in collaboration with a number of other local conservation groups is working to end a practice that most people think had been stopped long ago: the dumping of toxic waste at toxic concentrations into the Willamette River.
Learn more about Water Quality
Protect Oregon’s Wildlife
With more and more people invading what used to be exclusively wildlife habitat, the potential for real conflicts between people and wildlife are on the rise. We all have a chance to keep the world and our own backyard in Oregon wild and natural for our furred, feathered and scaled neighbors by making the right lifestyle choices and influencing public policies that impact Oregon’s wildlife.
