Climate change
July 8th, 2025 Scott Sargent, Pacific Cascade Region Manager Via: SEPA Center P.O. Box 47015 Olympia, Washington 98504-7015 sepacenter@dnr.wa.gov Re: Turnover Timber Sale – SEPA comments (File No. 25-042301) Dear Mr. Sargent, Friends of Clark County (FOCC) is a local non-profit advocacy organization representing its thousands of supporters who are residents of Clark County, Washington. […]
RE: Turnover Timber Sale and DNR-managed Clark County Public Lands Dear Clark County Council, My name is Mary Goody and I am a board member of Friends of Clark County, a non-profit environmental advocacy organization that has been working collaboratively with Clark County since 1996 to protect our quality of life and economic viability for […]
For those who could make the live session, we deeply appreciate your attendance at our forum about Clark County and the City of Vancouver’s Comprehensive Plan updates. It is a hopeful sign that we had such a great showing of local residents who took the time out of their evening for this discussion. Now, let’s […]
Help us advocate for our vision for the future of sustainable agriculture in Clark County and meaningful climate action! What’s at stake? The loss of 519 acres of prime agricultural lands in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update and the delayed implementation and potential loss of funding for urgent climate, transportation, housing, and parks policies. What’s […]
The Clark County Council recently gave unanimous direction to move forward with repealing the Chelatchie Bluff surface mining overlay (SMO) over environmentally sensitive forest land in response to the Washington Court of Appeals ruling in FOCC’s favor on the matter, which would bring the county back into compliance with state law. To learn more about […]
What’s at stake? The loss of 519 acres of agricultural land in Clark County’s Comprehensive Plan Update to sprawling development, the delay (6 months to a year or more) of passing urgent climate, transportation, and housing policies, noncompliance with state law, and ineligibility for grants and low-interest loans from the state that could be lost […]
Do you care about local farms, healthy forests, clean water, clean air, the climate crisis, parks, walkability, housing and transportation, fish, wildlife, and creating vibrant and equitable communities? So does Friends of Clark County! That’s why advocacy around the Clark County Comprehensive Plan update process in accordance with the Washington State Growth Management Act (GMA) is […]
Dabbler photo courtesy of Joshua Wright The Latest We are very sad to report that on March 28th, 2025, Judge Derek Vanderwood of the Superior Court of Washington denied Legacy Forest Defense Coalition and FOCC’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction (PI) of the Dabbler forest Units 1, 2 and 3 in eastern Clark County. However, we […]
With pride and satisfaction, on April 7th, 2025, the Clark County Climate Project Community Advisory Group (CAG) finished its year-and-a-half long mission to develop actionable policies to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions and improve climate resilience in Clark County. Working collaboratively, we managed to produce 160 goals and policies covering just about all aspects […]
Background In our last update, the Clark County Council had adopted the Draft Environmental Impact Study (DEIS) alternatives for the Comprehensive Plan Update. Alternatives are options for the Comp Plan that the cities and county put forward to be studied for environmental impacts in accordance with the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), which requires that […]