From Peter Bahls, conservation leader with the Northwest Watershed Institute, asking for our support. Contact your legislators with the message: “We urge you to permanently... Read More
OFCO partners with the National Park Conservation Associates to host three educational events on the impacts of the Navy expansion of training in the Olympic... Read More
The Elwha River Restoration Program is one of the few restoration programs that serves both as a visionary, successful effort to restore a watershed from... Read More
The Washington State 66th Legislature, 2019 Regular Session, is considering several bills which impact the Olympic Peninsula forests and associated marine waters, endangered species, and... Read More
OFCO contributed to a joint comment submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Washington Department of Natural Resources on the Long-Term Conservation... Read More
Washington’s Marbled Murrelet population has lost 44% of the species since 2001. The drastic decline is due to habitat loss in forests where the murrelets... Read More
The Jefferson Community Foundation accepted OFCO’s proposal to support our work on the Washington state “Solutions Table.” Commissioner of Public Lands HiIary Franz convened the... Read More
August 7 is the 44th anniversary of the discovery of the first Marbled Murrelet nest in California, in 1974. Celebrate! Find information on the Marbled... Read More
Megan Friesen of Seattle Audubon, and our colleague in the Marbled Murrelet Survival Coalition, says, “In case you didn’t know already, July 3 is #worldseabirdday... Read More
July and August will be hot in Washington, D.C., for federal forests. The U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the Farm Bill (H.R.... Read More
B.C. First Nations and Conservationists to B.C. Premier: No Salmon Net Pen Lease Renewal British Columbia First Nations led the effort to stop salmon net... Read More
Rep. Bishop (R-UT), Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources, and Rep. Westerman (R-AR), Subcommittee on Oversight, have launched an investigation into the environmental... Read More
Marbled Murrelet, Northern Spotted Owl, Climate Change and Federal Forests The U.S. Forest Service published their final science synthesis report for the update of the... Read More
What happens when the world’s largest user of fossil fuels fails to fully disclose its contributions to air pollution, respiratory diseases and climate change? What... Read More
Jill Silver, founder of 10,000 Years Institute, has been recognized for her work on invasive plants in habitat areas on the Olympic Peninsula. See this... Read More