Oregon Chapter Blog

The Portland Police Association has joined wealthy downtown property owners to announce an initiative petition for the November 2026 ballot that would, if successful, ask Portland voters to consider redirecting 25% of the Portland Clean Energy...

Sierra Club Oregon volunteer Amanda Short shares her reflections on the need to protect our public lands from corporate interests.

Sierra Club Oregon supports a climate-just future for all residents of Bend. As part of that commitment, we are advocating for a strong Climate Pollution Fee that facilitates the transition to an all-electric infrastructure and establishes a just...

The Trump Administration is moving systematically—proposing to sell off public lands, slashing budgets and firing park rangers, repealing the Roadless Rule, and now going after the Public Lands Rule. Each attack weakens the safeguards that keep our...

In September Sierra Club Oregon hosted the Portland stop on the Way of the Masks journey, a two-week, nine-stop mobilization that brought 1,500 people together across the Northwest to defend the Roadless Rule.

The City of Portland's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability recently released a "Discussion Draft" outlining four potential paths forward for the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub. None of them are aggressive enough.

Oregon Sierra Club members recently traveled to the Snake River where Oregon, Washington, and Idaho converge. We were honored and humbled to support and join the “Envisioning a Restored Snake River” flotilla led by Nimíipuu Protecting the...

Sierra Club Oregon volunteer Maleek Mckenzie talks about the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the 2001 roadless rule and the nearly 58 million acres of undeveloped backcountry forestland at risk.

For more than 10 years, the US Forest Service has been working, with starts and stops, to amend the forest plans of these three forests in one single effort. The effort is now moving forward again—and under the Trump Administration’s watch, that...

Much of Oregon’s identity and culture is rooted in our collective love for our public lands. Nearly 2 million acres are at risk from the Trump administration's most recent attack.