OFCO Blog

Olympic National Park Draft Wilderness Stewardship Plan Ready for Public Review

15 Mar 2014

Public Invited to Review Next StepsPlan Applies Only to Park Wilderness Area Designated in 1988 The National Park Service has released a range of preliminary...

Pondering the Point of No Return

06 Mar 2014

by Josey Paul, OFCO Advisory Committee Member Please click this link to read the UW Conservation article by Natasha Loder, to which Josey is responding....

Testimony on Proposed Inter-Trust Exchange Can Be Emailed or Mailed

24 Feb 2014

Here’s a little more info from a letter to OFCO from Cindy Joy Neff of DNR’s Trust Land Transfer Program: The Department of Natural Resources...

Natural Area Park in Jefferson County – Public Hearing

20 Feb 2014

by Peter BahlsExecutive Director, Northwest Watershed Instituteand OFCO member If you recall, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was planning to clearcut the beautiful, older...

Progress on the Skokomish

10 Feb 2014

The Skokomish Watershed Action Team, SWAT, has made incredible progress on this project—which OFCO board member and Great Old Broads for Wilderness chapter coordinator Shelley...

New Hope for Scotch Broom Control

07 Feb 2014

by John Woolley Tourists ask if the brilliant yellow flower along the road is Washington’s State Flower. It is so prolific here. What do we...

Farm Bill Would Repeal the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

03 Feb 2014

On January 29, 2014, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a version of the Farm Bill that, among many detrimental provisions, includes language that would...

Fight to Delist Bird Given a Feather for Its Cap

30 Jan 2014

Courthouse News ServiceFriday, January 24, 2014 by Rebekah Kearn (CN) – In their quest to delist the marbled murrelet as a threatened species, timber interests...

Wild Olympics Campaign Hails Bill to Protect Peninsula’s Ancient Forests & Rivers

17 Jan 2014

Diverse Coalition of Local Business Leaders, Sportsmen, Elected Officials, Conservationists & Recreationists Praise Introduction of Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers Act QUILCENE,...

Marbled Murrelet – “Rare Bird” Book Signing/Presentation

05 Nov 2013

Book Signing/Presentation by author Maria Mudd Ruth The North Olympic Sierra Club Group, in conjunction with Olympic Forest Coalition and Admiralty Audubon, are bringing Maria...

Hiking Olympic National Forest’s Unprotected Wildlands

26 Oct 2013

Excerpts from the Hiking Guide: The Olympic Mountains are known internationally as one of the finest remaining natural areas on Earth. Visitors flock to the...