http://kswild.org This is your one stop shop for conservation-focused news about the Klamath-Siskiyou region. Here, you can also find news and updates about KS Wild. daily 1 2011-04-26T22:47:52Z http://kswild.org/news/regional-press-clips/study-amphibians-disappearing-at-alarming-rate A new study has determined for the first time just how quickly frogs, and other amphibians like the Klamath-Siskiyou's Siskiyou Mountain Salamander, are disappearing around the United States, and the news is not good. No publisher morgan 2013-05-25T00:23:54Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/regional-press-clips/u.s.-senator-ron-wyden-lays-out-framework-for-boosting-o-c-lands-logging U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, spelled out a "legislative framework" today that calls for increased logging and county timber revenues from federally owned Oregon & California Railroad lands but penalizes counties with relatively low property taxes. No publisher morgan 2013-05-23T20:24:36Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/press-clips/families-furious-over-timber-sale Residents who live near a site that may soon be logged are upset. Wednesday morning they protested outside the Grants Pass Bureau of Land Management as Boise Cascade and the Swanson Group had a bidding war for the trees of the East West Timber Sale located near the Ken Rose neighborhood just outside downtown Cave Junction in Josephine County. No publisher morgan 2013-05-16T17:26:52Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/press-clips/dredge-mining-creates-waves Opinions differ sharply in the debate over a bill that would place a moratorium on suction dredge mining in Oregon. Members of both sides packed the Capitol on Monday afternoon during a public hearing of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. No publisher morgan 2013-04-17T20:40:26Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/regional-press-clips/mining-firm-interested-in-national-forest-nickel A Portland mining firm Red Flat Nickel Corp. has proposed exploratory drilling at two sites in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, including one near the southeastern tip of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area. No publisher morgan 2013-04-08T16:50:55Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/press-clips/these-are-rough-times-for-rough-ready Rough and Ready Lumber, the only large sawmill in Josephine County, had to shut down for a week in February, again in March and will do it again this month. No publisher morgan 2013-04-08T16:35:10Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/regional-press-clips/feds-ask-if-pot-garden-poison-threat-to-predator For the first time, federal biologists are assessing whether illegal marijuana gardens in the back woods of the West could threaten the extinction of the pacific fisher, a native predator. No publisher morgan 2013-04-02T16:05:31Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/press-clips/the-bybee-timber-sale-wrong-place-wrong-plan In order to reach some of the last, best remaining wildlands and ancient forests along Crater Lake National Park's headwater streams, the Forest Service is proposing to build 13 miles of new logging roads and log up to 3,000 acres. No publisher morgan 2013-03-20T19:26:54Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/press-clips/logging-proposed-near-crater-lake-national-park-sparks-a-timber-wars-reprise A logging proposal just outside Crater Lake National Park has reignited the Northwest's logging wars in miniature, pitting timber groups anxious for jobs against environmentalists who have gathered 10,000 comments in opposition No publisher morgan 2013-02-28T05:07:11Z Press Clip http://kswild.org/news/regional-press-clips/raising-a-stink-asphalt-plant-odor-draws-ire Nearby neighbors are unhappy with emissions and noise from an asphalt batch plant, while the plant's owner says he's fixed problems that caused it to violate state standards last year. No publisher morgan 2013-02-25T00:40:55Z Press Clip