Coastal Conservation News Archive

Anti-LNG rally at the State Capitol.\Photo courtesy of Rogue Climate. The battle over the proposal to build an LNG (liquefied natural gas) export terminal on Coos Bay's North Spit has entered another round. And the opposition is out in full force. More than 400 conservation groups (including Oregon Shores), tribes, and individals have filed with the Federal...Read more

thors_well_bruce_swenson.jpg A becalmed effort by Oregon’s Ocean Policy Advisory Council (OPAC) to review and update Oregon’s Rocky Shore Strategy in the Territorial Sea Plan recently got a boost. Deanna Caracciolo joined the staff of the Oregon Coastal Management Program, which supports the OPAC work, as an Oregon Sea Grant Coastal Fellow. She...Read more

Jill Josselyn, at her mountain cabin. We are greatly saddened to report the death of long-time Oregon Shores board member Jill Josselyn on Aug. 27. Jill served on the Oregon Shores board for a decade, stepping down early this year due to her declining health. Cancer which she had seemingly defeated and had long been in remission returned with a vengeance and...Read more

Phillip Johnson's view when the idea for CoastWatch came to him.\Photo by Dennis White. Since 1970, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, on Cascade Head near Otis, has served as a refuge for artists and conservation thinkers and an incubator for creative concepts. The Center has just published a book, As Natural as the World Will Allow , authored by Sharon...Read more