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.”
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Earlier this month, KS Wild collaborated with other organizations and agencies on the 5th annual weed pull at the Mariposa Lily Preserve.
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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.
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Defending 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.
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Senator Wyden learned from the crowd at his Josephine County Town Hall that protecting the Rogue, its tributaries, and all of the wild places in Oregon, is of utmost importance to Oregonians. He also heard that his constituents here in southern Oregon see and appreciate the hard work he is doing in the nation’s capital to keep our lands and rivers pristine and protected.
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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.
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With the passage of a public lands bill, Oregon will build on its Wild & Scenic River legacy and KS Wild will achieve some long sought after conservation measures. The Oregon Wildlands Act adds 250 miles of new rivers and streams to the National Wild & Scenic River system, protecting southern Oregon streams from mining!
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On 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!
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The U.S. Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47), including the Oregon Wildlands Act (S. 1548), the Frank and Jeanne Moore Wild Steelhead Act (S. 513/H.R. 1308), and the reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund,. The package now heads to the U.S. House where we are hopeful it will pass and be signed into law.
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Public lands should not be a pawn in political fights. Hard working public employees should not be forced to take short term loans or visit food banks as the price of public service. Timber, oil and gas, and other extractive industries should not enjoy unfettered access to public lands while restoration, fire safety work, and recreation are shut down.
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The State of Oregon adopted new standards that will allow for more prescribed fire. We need more prescribed fire to help restore forests degraded by past management and to prepare for climate change impacts. This is a step in the right direction.
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The recent government shutdown does not apply to timber sales, but it does apply to fuels reduction and community protection projects on public land.
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Our plans are bold. We cover millions of acres of forests, wildlands, and rivers. This region is one of the most valued and treasured regions in all of the West because of its unique biodiversity. Alongside our partners like you, we promise to deliver results that benefit wild nature in the Klamath-Siskiyou. Read more about our plans for 2019.
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Please consider an end of the year gift to KS Wild. Our efforts to defend the Klamath-Siskiyou are more important that ever before. But we can’t do it without you. Please join us.
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As you know, many of the national forests in northern California and southern Oregon have experienced significant wildfire events over the last several fire seasons. Last year the SIskiyou Crest experienced an wildlifire event when the Abney fire burned in mixed severity on the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest and over to the Klamath National Forest. The Klamath National Forest stands alone in wanting to exploit these wildfires in order to clearcut backcountry Late Successional Reserves.
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Here is a quick rundown from our community organizer Allee from our 'Restoring Plant Communities Day' in late November 2018 at Waldo-Takilma. It was an AMAZING day and such an important project we all accomplished together! We planted over 2,900 plants!
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Spoiler Alert: Clean Slate Timber sale didn’t sell the first time!
Today it’s being repackaged at a lesser monetary value per board foot with the same real environmental consequences.
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Over 20 people braved the smoke Thursday night to assemble at the Northwest Nature Shop and listen to a lively presentation by forest veteran Richard Fairbanks.
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"Many of us [Forest Service employees] had already spent long hours working through the Salmon Salvage Project (2014) and the Westside Fire Recovery Project (2016) and were reluctant to take on another large project, especially one that would require meeting an accelerated timeline. I also knew that putting forth a post-fire project would mean putting other green projects on hold, potentially risking having other areas burn in the future that could have been treated had we not reallocated resources for this project."
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Not everyone needs to agree about every aspect of fire management. Fire behavior is a complex field and its okay to reach different conclusions and hold different beliefs. But even in crisis, there are many opportunities for us to pull together.
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