KS Wild’s small team of ForestWatch staff determine which Forest Service and BLM proposals have the greatest potential to impact key watershed or wildlife values while encouraging actions that might improve ecosystem health and opposing plans to harm public lands. Here’s a snapshot of some of the campaigns that are at the very top of our to-do list along with a description of the natural values that we are seeking to protect.
Read MoreZinke is clear that he wants to remove the Monument’s protections and hand over the forests to timber companies. Aggressive logging on 16,591 acres of land currently protected for the Monument’s unique wildlife is an obvious goal of the recommendations. In the long term, there is a suggestion that more than half of the Monument could be axed.
Read MoreThe latest timber sale from the Medford Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") looks like it was designed by timber barons in the last century. It includes old-growth logging. It logs stream buffers. It harms salmon, spotted owls, and other rare wildlife. It increases fire danger!
Read MoreLast summer, an arson fire was set in the Klamath National Forest near Horse Creek, a tributary to the Klamath River in Northern California. Tragically, fire burned several homes in this remote canyon. Now, under the guise of fire prevention, the Forest Service wants to log remote forests on the Siskiyou Crest.
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