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!
Comment by September 23 on the plan to open forest roads by default
This deadline did not move. The Roadless Rule comment period was extended to October 6 on September 11, but this is a separate docket and it was not extended with it. Comments on the travel management rule still close Wednesday, September 23 at 8:59 p.m....
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September 23, 2026 at 8:59pm PDT
Sign the public lands letter before September 26
The Siuslaw National Forest is public land. Over 630,000 acres of it, and one of only two national forests in the lower 48 states with oceanfront. Cape Perpetua, Cascade Head, Drift Creek, the Oregon Dunes: all of it is held in common, which is the only...
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September 26, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
Comment by September 30 on the Blue Mountains Forest Plan
The Forest Service has proposed a new management plan for the Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests, about 4.9 million acres of northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. The plan will set the rules for logging, grazing, mining, motorized...
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September 30, 2026 at 11:59pm PDT
Comment by October 6 to keep the Roadless Rule
The comment period has been extended. It was going to close September 21. It now closes Tuesday, October 6 at 8:59 p.m. Pacific. The Forest Service published the extension on September 11, 2026, after sustained public pressure and a letter to Secretary...
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October 6, 2026 at 8:59pm PDT
Sign the roadless petitions, two minutes total
Two Oregon conservation groups are running petitions against the Roadless Rule rescission, and both will be delivered to the Forest Service as part of the public record. Signing takes about a minute each. This is the low-effort version of the roadless...
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October 6, 2026 at 8:59pm 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 most are often the ones that are wet part of the...
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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 weigh in. It also imposes a 120-day judicial review...
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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. NOAA's Marine Operations Center-Pacific is up...
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Ongoing Action
Get LOUD to Protect National Forests!
A Change.org petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to leave the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule alone. It was started on May 13, 2026 by journalist and photographer Bethany Salvon, and it is addressed...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress to 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 still raise chicks on our beaches. For 50 years...
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Ongoing Action
Tell Congress to pause the data center boom
Data centers are arriving in Oregon fast enough that the state keeps having to react to them. The strain shows up in ordinary places. In The Dalles, data centers use close to 40 percent of the city's municipal water supply, according to Oregon Capital...
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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 few weeks. Across North America, though, those flocks...
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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. The fund covers deferred maintenance on federal...
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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 this year, Senator Mike Lee pushed...
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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, the "O&C Renewal Act of 2026", which would make...
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Ongoing Action
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 that tells us when bacteria levels make it unsafe...
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Ongoing Action
Tell the Senate to reject Trump’s postal board nominees
Oregon votes by mail. Every registered voter on this coast gets a ballot delivered by the Postal Service, and under a 2021 state law the postmark is what decides a close call: mailed by 8 p.m. on election day, counted if it reaches the county clerk within...
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Ongoing Action
USFS Reorganization Boondoggle
Updated September 12, 2026. This page went up in April, when the reorganization was still just an announcement. It has since become the machinery behind two live rulemakings, which is why it is worth reading again rather than filing away. The Forest Service...
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Ongoing Action
Write to Congress about the Roadless Rule, five minutes total
Filing a comment fights this particular rescission. Two other things happening in Congress could make roadless protection permanent, or undo it for good, and both are worth five minutes.Rep. Andrea Salinas' Roadless Area Conservation Act (H.R. 3930) would...
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Ongoing Action
