Elwha Legacy Forests
@elwhalegacyforests.org
We’re a local and volunteer grassroots coalition of people and non-profit organizations, inspired by protecting the Elwha Watershed and legacy forests on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
https://elwhalegacyforests.org
https://elwhalegacyforests.org
'Doc Holliday' should absolutely be saved and alternative plantation forests logged instead!
www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...
www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...
This Puget Sound forest should be saved. There are better ways to log | Opinion
We should also use this pause to envision a plan for safeguarding logging jobs and mill operations, and imagine a new economic relationship between local governments’ budgets and timber sales. | Opini...
www.thenewstribune.com
July 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
'Doc Holliday' should absolutely be saved and alternative plantation forests logged instead!
www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...
www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/arti...
Join the Sierra Club to discuss the Senate proposal to sell off vast swaths of public lands across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, including in the Elwha Watershed on the Olympic Peninsula! RSVP: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
June 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Join the Sierra Club to discuss the Senate proposal to sell off vast swaths of public lands across the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, including in the Elwha Watershed on the Olympic Peninsula! RSVP: act.sierraclub.org/events/detai...
In honor of Earth Day, can you help us save the Doc Holliday forest? It's an amazing legacy forest near Highway 112 and Sadie Creek and it was already auctioned off to a timber company, but can still be saved. Here's an easy way to send a pre-made email to the DNR:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell the DNR not to clearcut "Doc Holliday"
Click “Start Writing” to urge DNR to save one of the oldest legacy forests in the Olympic Peninsula! Help us save a rare coastal rainforest ecosystem and culturally important forest for the S’Klallam...
actionnetwork.org
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In honor of Earth Day, can you help us save the Doc Holliday forest? It's an amazing legacy forest near Highway 112 and Sadie Creek and it was already auctioned off to a timber company, but can still be saved. Here's an easy way to send a pre-made email to the DNR:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Please join the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition for the Spring Equinox, International Day of Forests and World Water Day in Port Angeles, WA! All events are free - March 20-22 2025.
Details here:
elwhalegacyforests.org/equinox-day-...
Details here:
elwhalegacyforests.org/equinox-day-...
March 13, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Please join the Elwha Legacy Forests Coalition for the Spring Equinox, International Day of Forests and World Water Day in Port Angeles, WA! All events are free - March 20-22 2025.
Details here:
elwhalegacyforests.org/equinox-day-...
Details here:
elwhalegacyforests.org/equinox-day-...
Please consider donating to support the Legacy Forest Defense Coalitions' lawsuits against @wadnr.bsky.social to stop the logging of 2,328 acres of critical legacy forests on WA state land, including two in the Elwha River watershed (Tree Well and Parched).
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund...
#forests
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund...
#forests
Donate to Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests, organized by Joshua Wright
In the fall of 2024, Washington's outgoing Commissioner of Publ… Joshua Wright needs your support for Legal Fund: Help Save 2,328 Acres of WA's Legacy Forests
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February 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Please consider donating to support the Legacy Forest Defense Coalitions' lawsuits against @wadnr.bsky.social to stop the logging of 2,328 acres of critical legacy forests on WA state land, including two in the Elwha River watershed (Tree Well and Parched).
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund...
#forests
www.gofundme.com/f/legal-fund...
#forests
Take action! Please ask Dave Upthegrove, with @wadnr.bsky.social, to negotiate a favorable resolution for the 32 previously approved legacy forest timber sales currently under litigation:
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Urge DNR to Expand the Pause on Legacy Forest Timber Sales!
Now that we have a new Commissioner of Public Lands running the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), we are seeing the kind of change that’s needed to protect our legacy forests!
Lands Commissione...
actionnetwork.org
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Take action! Please ask Dave Upthegrove, with @wadnr.bsky.social, to negotiate a favorable resolution for the 32 previously approved legacy forest timber sales currently under litigation:
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
This is from Ontario, Canada, but @wadnr.bsky.social also uses the herbicide (poison) glyphosate on our new monocrop tree farms on state land:
www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/c...
www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/c...
COLUMN: Monocultures, glyphosate fanning flames of forest fires
Forests of trees all planted in straight rows, the same species and the same age might look like an 'orderly, well-maintained forest. In reality, monocultures like this are an ecological disaster wait...
www.midlandtoday.ca
February 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is from Ontario, Canada, but @wadnr.bsky.social also uses the herbicide (poison) glyphosate on our new monocrop tree farms on state land:
www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/c...
www.midlandtoday.ca/local-news/c...
More legacy forests auctioned off by @wadnr.bsky.social to be clear-cut and converted to tree farms, including 'Dungeness & Dragons', a beautiful, mature forest on a steep hillside above the Dungeness River in Sequim, WA:
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov
January 31, 2025 at 1:58 AM
More legacy forests auctioned off by @wadnr.bsky.social to be clear-cut and converted to tree farms, including 'Dungeness & Dragons', a beautiful, mature forest on a steep hillside above the Dungeness River in Sequim, WA:
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
Dave Upthegrove is being sworn in as the new Commissioner of Public Lands to head up a new chapter at @wadnr.bsky.social!
Watch his inaugural address at 2PM today: tvw.org/video/lands-...
#worthmorestanding #forests #legacyforests
Watch his inaugural address at 2PM today: tvw.org/video/lands-...
#worthmorestanding #forests #legacyforests
Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove Inaugural Address - TVW
Newly Sworn-in State Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove gives his inaugural speech at the Department of Natural Resources Building in Olympia.
tvw.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Dave Upthegrove is being sworn in as the new Commissioner of Public Lands to head up a new chapter at @wadnr.bsky.social!
Watch his inaugural address at 2PM today: tvw.org/video/lands-...
#worthmorestanding #forests #legacyforests
Watch his inaugural address at 2PM today: tvw.org/video/lands-...
#worthmorestanding #forests #legacyforests
This amazing legacy forest on public land is being actively logged in Joyce, WA right now. We need to connect the dots between the destruction of our biosphere, our CO2 emissions and the extreme weather events we're witnessing.
elwhalegacyforests.org/ode-to-joyce/
#forests #logging #climate
elwhalegacyforests.org/ode-to-joyce/
#forests #logging #climate
January 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
This amazing legacy forest on public land is being actively logged in Joyce, WA right now. We need to connect the dots between the destruction of our biosphere, our CO2 emissions and the extreme weather events we're witnessing.
elwhalegacyforests.org/ode-to-joyce/
#forests #logging #climate
elwhalegacyforests.org/ode-to-joyce/
#forests #logging #climate
Due to the amazing work of Joshua Wright, with Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, the 'Power Station' forest in Sequim is saved from logging! Joshua discovered a globally critically imperiled plant community, confirmed by the Washington Natural Heritage Program.
elwhalegacyforests.org/power-station/
elwhalegacyforests.org/power-station/
Power Station - Elwha Legacy Forests
elwhalegacyforests.org
January 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Due to the amazing work of Joshua Wright, with Legacy Forest Defense Coalition, the 'Power Station' forest in Sequim is saved from logging! Joshua discovered a globally critically imperiled plant community, confirmed by the Washington Natural Heritage Program.
elwhalegacyforests.org/power-station/
elwhalegacyforests.org/power-station/
The auction results from the sale of way more legacy forests (including Parched & Tree Well) than @wadnr.bsky.social usually sells in a month - the result of the outgoing administration trying to sell off our most precious forests on their way out the door:
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov
December 22, 2024 at 11:37 PM
The auction results from the sale of way more legacy forests (including Parched & Tree Well) than @wadnr.bsky.social usually sells in a month - the result of the outgoing administration trying to sell off our most precious forests on their way out the door:
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
www.dnr.wa.gov/publications...
A great first hand account of the difference between what you'll find in a WA DNR (@wadnr.bsky.social) plantation/tree farm vs in a naturally regenerated legacy forest, and why we need to preserve these legacy forests:
salish-current.org/2024/12/20/s...
#forests #conservation #legacyforests
salish-current.org/2024/12/20/s...
#forests #conservation #legacyforests
Seeing the forests through the plantations
Commentary: Value the legacy forests for the life that is there.
salish-current.org
December 22, 2024 at 11:31 PM
A great first hand account of the difference between what you'll find in a WA DNR (@wadnr.bsky.social) plantation/tree farm vs in a naturally regenerated legacy forest, and why we need to preserve these legacy forests:
salish-current.org/2024/12/20/s...
#forests #conservation #legacyforests
salish-current.org/2024/12/20/s...
#forests #conservation #legacyforests
Moody fall forest vibes. This is WA state forest in the Elwha River watershed that was planned for logging, but has been saved. Photo by @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com
#forestphotography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #ElwhaRiverWatershed
#forestphotography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #ElwhaRiverWatershed
December 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Moody fall forest vibes. This is WA state forest in the Elwha River watershed that was planned for logging, but has been saved. Photo by @adventurephotography.forest2sea.com
#forestphotography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #ElwhaRiverWatershed
#forestphotography #PNW #OlympicPeninsula #ElwhaRiverWatershed
The Elwha "Tree Well" legacy forest is ALSO going up for auction tomorrow! It's also been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00960-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're so grateful to both orgs for trying to stop this!
elwhalegacyforests.org/tree-well/
elwhalegacyforests.org/tree-well/
Tree Well - Elwha Legacy Forests
elwhalegacyforests.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:16 PM
The Elwha "Tree Well" legacy forest is ALSO going up for auction tomorrow! It's also been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00960-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're so grateful to both orgs for trying to stop this!
elwhalegacyforests.org/tree-well/
elwhalegacyforests.org/tree-well/
The Elwha "Parched" legacy forest is going up for auction tomorrow! However, the sale has been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00961-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're hoping the courts will grant an injunction!
elwhalegacyforests.org/parched/
elwhalegacyforests.org/parched/
Parched - Elwha Legacy Forests
elwhalegacyforests.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:14 PM
The Elwha "Parched" legacy forest is going up for auction tomorrow! However, the sale has been appealed by the Earth Law Center (case No. 24-2-00961-05) and Legacy Forest Defense Coalition (case No. 24-2-00966-05). We're hoping the courts will grant an injunction!
elwhalegacyforests.org/parched/
elwhalegacyforests.org/parched/
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A bittersweet moment sitting with this beautiful mature forest surrounded by older growth & a vibrant ecosystem.
I knew of her inevitable future in this photo.
I'm grateful for being given the chance to meet you.
RIP "On The Line"🌳🌲🐾🌿
#forestdefender #treehugger #olympicpeninsula #legacyforest
I knew of her inevitable future in this photo.
I'm grateful for being given the chance to meet you.
RIP "On The Line"🌳🌲🐾🌿
#forestdefender #treehugger #olympicpeninsula #legacyforest
December 11, 2024 at 6:38 AM
A bittersweet moment sitting with this beautiful mature forest surrounded by older growth & a vibrant ecosystem.
I knew of her inevitable future in this photo.
I'm grateful for being given the chance to meet you.
RIP "On The Line"🌳🌲🐾🌿
#forestdefender #treehugger #olympicpeninsula #legacyforest
I knew of her inevitable future in this photo.
I'm grateful for being given the chance to meet you.
RIP "On The Line"🌳🌲🐾🌿
#forestdefender #treehugger #olympicpeninsula #legacyforest
On Friday, November 29th, 2024, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Elder Yayacen (Linda Weichman) and Lummi Elder Sul ka dub (Freddie Lane) joined the Elwha Legacy Forests coalition at the planned clear-cut site of the ‘Doc Holliday‘ forest, located near Sadie Creek.
elwhalegacyforests.org/doc-holliday...
elwhalegacyforests.org/doc-holliday...
Doc Holliday / Sadie Creek Tribal Elder Visit - Elwha Legacy Forests
elwhalegacyforests.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:25 AM
On Friday, November 29th, 2024, Lower Elwha Klallam Tribal Elder Yayacen (Linda Weichman) and Lummi Elder Sul ka dub (Freddie Lane) joined the Elwha Legacy Forests coalition at the planned clear-cut site of the ‘Doc Holliday‘ forest, located near Sadie Creek.
elwhalegacyforests.org/doc-holliday...
elwhalegacyforests.org/doc-holliday...