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Friends of Living Oregon Waters

P.O. Box 2478, Grants Pass, Oregon  97528

flow@oregonwaters.org  

FLOW: 541-890-5107

FLOW’s mission is to provide legal oversight, monitoring and public education to protect Oregon Waters from the impacts of pollution and development.

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Oregon Wild & Scenic Rivers Program

Winter rains mud the Wild Rogue...

Oregon has been in the forefront of river conservation nationally.  Yet all of these rivers still face ongoing threats to their beauty and natural integrity.  FLOW monitors and advocates for the protection and restoration of Oregon's Wild and Scenic Rivers. FLOW also addresses ongoing problems with these waters, such as the threats posed by dams, cattle grazing, logging, gravel mining, dredging, roads, water withdrawals, herbicide spraying, motorized use, and industrial pollution.

 

News & Action Alerts

 


Mining Companies Threaten Lower Rogue, Chetco, and Elk Rivers

Click here to read FLOW's comments to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) regarding Freeman Rock's application on the Lower Rogue River and click here to read our comments to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers regarding Tidewaters Contractor's application on the Elk River.

Click on the to view pictures of Freeman Rock's impacts on the Chetco.


Cattle grazing and Joseph Creek Wild and Scenic River! Click here to read more about this issue...

Click here to read the appeal...


FLOW files appeal of the Upper Sycan Allotments, Fremont National Forest

 

Click here to read the appeal...

Click here for more information and to see pictures of the area...

These allotments affect the upper segment of the Sycan National Wild and Scenic River. 

Click here to read FLOW's comments on the Upper Sycan Grazing EA.

 


FLOW files comments on cattle grazing and the Middle Fork John Day Wild and Scenic River

Click here to read FLOW's comments

 


Conservation groups challenge Forest Service grazing without water quality compliance- Click here to read the press release...


TAKE ACTION:  JETBOAT SPECIAL USE PERMITS AND THE LOWER WILD ROGUE RIVER

Click here for more information & action alert

Click here to read FLOW's appeal of the Decision.


Rogue River Jet Boats has applied for a permit to dredge a section of the Lower Wild and Scenic Rogue River to allow for easier jetboat passage.  The operators claim that during low water their jetboats are incurring damage from hitting bottom. 

Click here to read FLOW's to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and click here to read FLOW's comments to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.


FLOW and Rogue Group Sierra Club Appeal the Wild and Scenic Rogue River Hellgate Recreation Area Management Plan

Friends of Living Oregon Waters (FLOW) and the Rogue Group Sierra Club (RGSC) assert that the Bureau of Land Management has illegally failed to restrict motorized tourboat use to the levels allowed by the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. High levels of motorized tourboat noise and wakes disrupt fish and wildlife, degrade water quality, and create conflicts between motorized and non-motorized recreation.


FLOW files comments on Upper Klamath River Management Plan

This is the management plan for the Wild and Scenic Upper Klamath River.  Click here to view pictures of the Upper Klamath and to read our comments.