Our Public Lands and You (PLAY) Program volunteers are working with the US Forest Service (USFS) to protect important botanical spaces on the Siskiyou Crest. Read more about this work here!
Read MoreLearn more about KS Wild’s work protecting the imperiled Mardon skipper butterfly habitat in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Read MoreWe’re celebrating 7 years of partnership and stewardship with the US Forest Service at Alex Hole meadow on the Siskiyou Crest! Read about our work and victories in this blog post.
Read MoreWe’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!
Read MoreCheck out all the progress our incredible volunteer stewards have been able to accomplish lately!
Read MoreSummer is here and our PLAY (Public Lands and You) Stewardship Program is working hard to protect and restore the important Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area for the fifth consecutive year.
Read MoreThis past summer and fall, KS Wild staff along with a few volunteers were hard at work conserving and protecting two of our favorite botanical areas and places of deep concern: Eight Dollar Mountain in the Illinois Valley and Alex Hole on the Siskiyou Crest. These two areas are rich in botanical biodiversity, and also threatened by poor management and misuse. Our dedicated team of volunteers and staffers have been working on restoration projects at both sites.
Read MoreKS Wild partners with the Forest Service and local community members to protect and defend the natural resources of the Eight Dollar Mountain and Days Gulch botanical areas, which are nestled on the edge of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness and along the Wild & Scenic Illinois River.
Read MoreIn 2019, KS Wild volunteers made Oregon’s Klamath-Siskiyou region wilder and healthier in a myriad of ways. Their spectacular progress over the course of this year raises the bar for what a group of dedicated volunteers and partner organizations can accomplish together.
Read MoreTo be the eyes and ears of public lands defense requires KS Wild’s ForestWatch staff to be diligent in how we approach the scope of our work. Read about our plans for 2020, which defending public lands in a number of vital ways.
Read MoreKS Wild, the Applegate Neighborhood Network (ANN), and the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest partnered to host a native grass planting stewardship event up on the Siskiyou Crest at Big Red Mountain, a botanical area that is being damaged by unauthorized off-highway vehicle use.
Read MoreThe morning of September 21st, KS Wild gathered with volunteers and the Forest Service along the banks of the Wild and Scenic Illinois River to celebrate National Public Lands Day and protect this area from illegal Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) use. See a slideshow of our stewardship action that day!
Read MoreAlex Hole is a high elevation wet meadow, and every year cattle from the adjacent Klamath National Forest “drift” over the Crest and trample it, destroying fragile plants and whole ecosystems. Each year, KS Wild volunteers sets up a fence to protect from the cattle.
Read MoreEarlier this month, KS Wild collaborated with other organizations and agencies on the 5th annual weed pull at the Mariposa Lily Preserve.
Read MoreDefending the Eight Dollar Mountain Botanical Area, on the edge of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, is a high priority for KS Wild’s stewardship program. Teams of volunteers have worked for years to clean up illegal dumping sites and protect the botanical hotspot from illegal off-highway vehicle use (OHV). Our goal is to install gates to prevent further degradation, and allow for an orderly managed botanical area.
Read MoreOn a chilly sun-filled February morning KS Wild land steward volunteers, local community groups and the Bureau of Land Management showed up strong to preserve a low elevation wetland meadow at French Flat. Stewarding public lands is so important, and so rewarding!
Read MoreEnvironmental stewards can operate in a variety of ways: as practitioners, donors, and doers. Our staff works hard each day as practitioners, working directly with government agencies and stakeholders to promote best practices in the management of our public lands. Foundations and community members serve as vital donors, providing financial support for our work. The doers are all of you—KS Wild members, volunteers, interns, and partners—who take part in our work, voice your support for public lands, or even just get out on a hike.
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