A Week on the Rogue River National Recreation Trail

We spent a week hiking the Rogue River National Recreation Trail with a group of determined hikers and the raft support of our friends at ARTA. Read the full report here.

Public Lands, Wild Rivers, Wildlife, Wildlands, WildernessHaleigh MartinJune 3, 2024hiking, Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest, rogue river trail, wild and scenic rogue river, arta, raft-supported hike, hike, trails, events

Wildflowers are Abloom at Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area!

Wildflowers are abloom at Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area! See which flowers we saw and identified on our April hike last week.

Public Lands, Stewardship, Wild RiversKlamath SiskiyouApril 29, 2024wildflowers, Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area, botanical area, hiking

Six years of stewardship at Eight Dollar Mountain and Days Gulch Botanical Areas

We’re celebrating six years of stewardship at Eight Dollar Mountain and Days Gulch Botanical Areas! Read about our victories we are able to accomplish with the support of an amazing volunteer group alongside the US Forest Service!

Stop to smell (and identify) the flowers!

Springtime is here! In this blog, you’ll find an outline of wildflower-rich hikes I would recommend in the Klamath-Siskiyou region. Happy hiking!

Klamath SiskiyouApril 25, 2023wildflowers, trails, hiking, springtime, rogue river trail

Back to the Source

For five days in May, KS Wild leads a raft-supported hike along the Rogue River. This guest post by Tuula Rebhahn details the journey along the river and the adventure that awaits you!

Wild Rivers, Water, Public LandsKlamath SiskiyouJuly 9, 2019rogue river, wild rogue river, rafting, hiking, history

Red Buttes Wilderness Beckons!

The Red Buttes Wilderness offers large trees, expansive wildflowers, and crystal clear creeks. Here, Conservation Director George Sexton shares a favorite trail in what was once known as the “Applegate Alps.”

Forests, Public Lands, WildernessGuest UserJuly 1, 2019hiking, trails, red buttes, wilderness, wilderness area, botany, siskiyou crest, explore

The Hands that Touch the Land

KS Wild, the Northwest Forest Worker Center, and Lomakatsi Restoration Project hosted “The Hands that Touch the Land,” a hike focusing on ecological forestry work.

Backyard Forests, Forests, Fire & Climate SummitHolly ChristiansenJune 13, 2019hiking, forest workers, ecological restoration, lomakatsi, northwest forest workers, Red Queen Trail, ecological forestry, forestry

Bees & Blossoms at the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

KS Wild works hard to protect places like the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, and we love bringing our community out to these special places so you can experience all that our region, and its wild places, has to offer. The Bees & Blossoms hike was graciously led by the founder of the Native Bee Society, Brian Dysktra.

Cascade-SiskiyouGuest UserMay 17, 2019wildflowers, native bees, hiking, cascade-siskiyou national monument

Exploring the Little Grayback Mountain Trail

Looking for an early spring antidote to cabin fever? The Little Grayback Mountain trail may be just the ticket.

Applegate, Public Lands, WildlandsGuest UserApril 27, 2017wilderness, little grayback mountain, hiking, Applegate, explore

Wilderness in the Klamath-Siskiyou

The Klamath-Siskiyou region is home to the largest expanse of wildlands on the West Coast. Some of these pristine wild areas are protected under the Wilderness Act as Wilderness Areas, but many other wilderness-quality lands are unprotected and face a variety of threats including logging, road-building, over-grazing, and irresponsible off-road vehicle use.

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Kalmiopsis Wilderness

The mountains of the Kalmiopsis emerged from the ocean floor as result of geological uplift (rather than volcanism) and have been subject to folding and faulting ever since. As a result, the unique soils are packed with heavy metals including nickel, iron, chromium, and magnesium that make life hard for most plant life. To survive in this environment plants have had to evolve and adapt to get by in circumstances that would normally kill most flowering species. More than any other wilderness in the region, the Kalmiopsis is the home of oddball survivors.

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Smith River National Recreation Area: Off-Road Vehicle Playground or Botanical Wonderland?

The public lands in the Smith River Watershed are legendary for their unique botanical diver- sity and for providing clear, cold water to the largest un-damned river system on the West Coast. It is a stunning and spectacular part of America’s natural heritage that is literally like nowhere else on Earth.

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