Action Center
Petitions, public comments, protests, and other ways to support environmental and community-focused causes.
Collective action matters. Your voice, presence, and participation help protect the places and communities we care about.
Below you will find current opportunities hand picked by our volunteers to take meaningful action in support of ecosystems, communities, and climate justice across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. These calls to action include petitions, public comment periods, community demonstrations, and other timely ways to show up and be heard.
Each listing is curated to ensure it is relevant, credible, and impactful. Whether you have five minutes to submit a petition or more time to participate in an in-person action, this page is designed to help you engage at a level that works for you. Check back often, as opportunities change quickly and many actions are time-sensitive.
Urgent Actions
These actions have upcoming deadlines. Act soon!
Speak up for wilderness before the August 14 deadline
The Department of the Interior is running a sweeping review of the policies that safeguard wilderness on nearly 200 million acres of national parks, national wildlife refuges, and Bureau of Land Management...
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August 14, 2026 at 9:00am PDT
Speak Up for Oregon’s Wilderness Study Areas
Oregon holds about 2.6 million acres of Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Areas, most of them in the high desert and canyon country of the southeast, from the Owyhee Canyonlands to the sagebrush...
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August 14, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
Ongoing Actions
These actions have no current deadline but still need your support.
Ask Congress to restore wetland protections
The Supreme Court's 2023 decision in Sackett v. EPA stripped Clean Water Act protection from a large share of the nation's wetlands. Estuary country took the hardest hit, because the wetlands that matter...
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Ongoing Action
Ask Rep. Hoyle to Co-Sponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act
For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has kept new roads and logging out of nearly two million acres of Oregon's public forests, including roadless country in the Siuslaw National Forest that wraps around Waldport...
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Ongoing Action
Ask the Senate to oppose the Fix Our Forests Act
The Fix Our Forests Act, S. 1462, is named to sound like a repair. What it actually does is make it easier to log public forests by shortening environmental review and narrowing the public's chance to...
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Ongoing Action
Defend the Endangered Species Act
The Endangered Species Act is the reason the marbled murrelet still nests in the old-growth of the Coast Range, the reason Oregon Coast coho still run in our streams, and the reason western snowy plovers...
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Ongoing Action
Defend the weather and disaster services this coast runs on
The administration is moving to cut funding and staff at FEMA and at NOAA, including the National Weather Service. On a coast sitting on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, those are not abstract agencies....
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Ongoing Action
Get LOUD to Protect National Forests!
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Ongoing Action
Stand up for the Roadless Rule
For more than twenty years the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has kept road building, logging, and mining out of about 45 million acres of national forest. The administration is moving to repeal it, citing...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress to defend the Endangered Species Act
Legislation moving in Congress would gut the Endangered Species Act, the law that has kept species from disappearing since Nixon signed it in 1973. The list of animals it protects reads like a description...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress to Protect Bird Habitat in Our Communities
Every spring and fall, migratory birds move along our stretch of coast. Sandpipers work the tide line at low water, warblers pass through the spruce, and the whole shoreline gets a little busier for a...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress to Reauthorize the Legacy Restoration Fund
If you have hiked the trails at Cape Perpetua, parked at a Siuslaw National Forest trailhead, or used a coastal campground, you have benefited from the kind of upkeep the Legacy Restoration Fund pays for....
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress: Our Public Lands Are Not for Sale
The Siuslaw National Forest, the Coast Range, the trails and rivers and quiet BLM corners we wander on a day off: those are public lands. They belong to all of us, which is exactly why they are worth defending. Earlier...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Oregon’s Delegation to Oppose H.R. 7603 and Protect O&C Forests
The O&C lands are the checkerboard of BLM public forests running through western Oregon, including the Coast Range hills above the Alsea River. Representative Cliff Bentz has introduced H.R. 7603,...
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Tell Oregon’s senators to reauthorize the BEACH Act for safe coast water
If you have ever checked the water before letting kids splash near the creek mouths along Waldport's beaches or out at Alsea Bay, you have benefited from the BEACH Act. It funds the water-quality testing...
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Ongoing Action
USFS Reorganization Boondoggle
From the USDA's Factsheet: "the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service announced it will move its headquarters to Salt Lake City, Utah. Secretary Brooke L. Rollins commented: "Establishing...
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Ongoing Action