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2022 Fire Season in Review
2022 Fire Season in Review

We have recapped the 2022 wildfire’s in the Klamath-Siskiyou region. Please see the bottom of this blog for ways in which you can contribute to the relief efforts for those people and communities most impacted.

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Climate, Fire, Forests, Public LandsHaleigh Martinwildfire severity, wildfire risk, wildfire, mckinney fire, mill fire, rum creek fire, community, forest and fire toolkit, california, yeti fire, klamath river, klamath national forest, US Forest Service, usfs, fire severity, rogue river, Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest, rainie falls
Land of Wild Rivers
Land of Wild Rivers

Few experiences are more evocative of the Pacific Northwest than the sight of a salmon leaping a waterfall. People gather to watch as they make their way to ancestral spawning grounds each year at Rainie Falls on the Rogue River or the mouth of Wooley Creek on the Salmon River. Some rivers of the Klamath-Siskiyou are strongholds for wild salmon, including the federally listed Northern California/Southern Oregon Coho Salmon

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Water, Wild Rivers, Rogue Riverkeeper, WildlandsKlamath Siskiyouenvironment, ecosystem, klamath-siskiyou, ks wild, biodiversity, water, wild rivers, rogue riverkeeper, rogue river, watershed, klamath river, illinois river, trinity river, upper sacramento river, smith river, chetco river, coho salmon, chinook salmon, steelhead, rainbow trout, green sturgeon, pacific lamprey, cutthroat trout, imperiled species, oncorhynchus, Acipenser medirostris, Oncorhynchus mykiss, Oncorhynchus kisutch, Oncorhynchus clarkii, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, western siskiyou mountains, siskiyou mountains, southern oregon, oregon, wild and scenic rivers, national forest, rough and ready creek, baldface creek, dams, mining, toxic runoff, gold, pollution, riparian, urban development, logging, road-building, clean water, west coast, pacific northwest, rainie falls, wooley creek, salmon river, northern california/southern oregon coho salmon, wildlands, clean water act, kalmiopsis, nickel strip mining, strip-mining, 1872 mining law, bull trout, Salvelinus confluentus, federal energy regulatory commission, pacific connector pipline, rogue climate, climate, conservation, Lampetra tridentata, Entosphenus tridentatus
State Fails Rogue Streams
State Fails Rogue Streams

he Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) has failed to protect the clear, cold streams and fish in our region by excluding them in their decision to expand stream buffers for Western Oregon’s forests. ODF granted limited protections for streams to the north but left out almost the entirety of the Siskiyou region (essentially the Rogue Basin) in their policy decision.

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Water, Rogue RiverkeeperKlamath Siskiyouconservation, environment, ecosystem, klamath-siskiyou, ks wild, biodiversity, oregon department of forestry, ODF, clean water, streams, fish, buffers, western oregon, forests, logging, salvage, forestfire, wildfire, water, mining, rogue riverkeeper, siskiyou region, rogue basin, us environmental protection agency, riparian, ripstream, timber, waterways, salmon, salmonidae, oncorhynchus, climate, temperature, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, dog salmon, silverbite, keta salmon, chum salmon, chum, Oncorhynchus keta, department of environmental quality, water quality, rogue river, headwaters, rainie falls, bear creek, riparian rule decision