Legislative Wrap-up
Salmon Net Pen Ban Won! Washington’s fin fish net pen ban is on the Governor’s desk for signature after a roller coaster... Read More
Salmon Net Pen Ban Won in Legislature!
Washington’s non-native fin fish net pen ban bill, which will phase out Atlantic salmon in-water pens, is on the Governor’s desk for... Read More
U.S. Court of Appeals Affirms OFCO’s Clean Water Act Win, Advancing Protections for Hood Canal and Puget Sound
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued their decision in Olympic Forest Coalition v. Coast Seafoods Company on March... Read More
OFCO v. Coast Seafoods Oral Arguments Before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Paul Kampmeier of Kampmeier & Knutsen, PLLC, attorney for OFCO, presented oral arguments in the case on appeal by Coast before the... Read More
OFCO Requests Governor Implement Permanent Salmon Net Pen Ban
OFCO Board VP Lorna Smith has spearheaded OFCO’s request to Governor Jay Inslee to permanently ban Atlantic salmon net pens in marine... Read More
The Marbled Murrelet Bureaucratic Dance
by Marcy Golde What’s been happening in the nearly endless story of the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) trying to, or... Read More
Tell Governor Inslee to Protect Our Salmon and Our Sound from Atlantic Salmon Net Pens
OFCO, along with many other environmental organizations, has signed the petition urging Governor Inslee to stop the expansion of Atlantic salmon net... Read More
WA Supreme Court Accepts Conservation Lawsuit for “All the People”
Olympic Forest Coalition (OFCO), Conservation Northwest, and Washington Environmental Council are pleased that on March 3, 2021 the Washington Supreme Court granted direct... Read More
Military Training Impacts on Marbled Murrelets – The State Must Analyze All Impacts
New OFCO board member Karen Sullivan, retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife marine biologist, is assisting OFCO with its work to save the... Read More