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 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
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
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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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
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
