Oregon

Access Fund work in Oregon

Authored letter to encourage the Clackamas Board of County Commissioners to continue to make parks master planning at the Hardscrabble/Madrone Wall site a priority in FY2007-2008 budget and to allocate follow-on capital improvement funding immediately following completion of the parks master plan in 2008 rather than delaying implementation of the plan for four years as County Parks staff currently recommends. (2007)
Provided on-going support and resources to successfully reopen Madrone Wall to climbing and recreation through the designation of a County Park. (2006)
Work with Oregon climbers charged with bogus citations for illegal bolting activity on US Forest Service land. AF involvement sought to both defend individual climbers from these ill-conceived charges while also prevent a restrictive precedent that could limit future climbing opportunities acorss the country (2006)
Work with climbers and a defense attorney in Medford, Oregon to help defend against unjust citations brought against a climber by the US Forest Service for illegal bolting activity. The AF worked with USFS contacts in Washington, DC to help inform local land managers and federal prosecutors in Oregon as to established climbing and bolting policies on federal public lands. These charges, which could have established a restrictive precedent that could limit future climbing opportunities across the country, were dropped (2006)
Continued work with local climbing activists, and the Madrone County Commissioners to advocate on behalf of climbers and reopen Madrone Wall to recreational use. (2005)
Consultation with local climbing activists regarding a potential BLM land swap opportunity that could affect access to climbing in the Callahans (2005)
Organized a Western Regional Workshop, held in Bend, OR. Climbing activists throughout the northwest attended the workshop. (2004)
Provided support to the Madrone Wall Preservation Committee, OR in their effort to reopen Madrone Wall, an outstanding climbing resource near Portland, OR. (2004)
Regional coordinator work: Oregon: hosted meeting with activists, land managers, and retailers to discuss access issues; attended a raptor monitor training; organized clean-ups; working to reopen Madrone Wall. (2004)
Sprague River, OR. Opposed a discriminatory and arbitrary closure of Sprague River Picnic Area to climbing, and an ill-advised citation of a local climber charged for “illegal” bolting. (2002)
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, OR. Submitted comments on a draft management plan that would arbitrarily prohibit climbing. (2002)