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 9 to keep drilling out of the Grand Canyon region
The Bureau of Land Management wants to offer 132 oil and gas parcels, 287,284 acres in Mohave County, Arizona, for lease over two sales, one in December 2026 and one in February 2027. It would be the first...
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September 9, 2026 at 11:59pm 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...
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September 21, 2026 at 5:00pm PDT
Comment by September 21 to keep the Roadless Rule
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has filed a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety, along with a draft environmental impact statement. The comment period opened...
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September 21, 2026 at 8:59pm PDT
Comment by September 23 on the plan to open forest roads by default
Four days after announcing the Roadless Rule rescission, the Forest Service filed a second rulemaking. On August 24, 2026 it published a notice of intent to rewrite its travel management regulations at...
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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:...
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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...
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September 30, 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 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!
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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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
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'...
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Ongoing Action