KS Wild joined on to a coalition of Western wolf advocates who challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to prematurely strip wolves of federal protections in the contiguous 48 states, in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
Read MoreA coalition of conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withhold Endangered Species Act protection from wolverines in the lower 48 states, where no more than 300 wolverines remain. Without the new conservation efforts that would be triggered by the Endangered Species Act listing, wolverines face localized extinction as a result of climate change, habitat fragmentation and low genetic diversity.
Read MoreIn the face of litigation brought by conservation organizations, the Klamath National Forest has withdrawn its approval of a timber sale that threatened old-growth forests in the cold water tributaries of the Klamath River.
Read MoreThe Trump administration today denied Endangered Species Act protections to Pacific fishers from Northern California to the Canadian border, but granted them endangered status in the southern Sierra. The decision reversed a 2019 proposal to list fishers as threatened throughout their West Coast range.
Read MoreAccording to a just released 2019 status report by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon’s wolf population has grown but its most famous member may have died. ODFW biologists presume that the wolf OR-7 who has not been observed in many months died of natural causes. OR-7 was last photographed in the fall and was considered to be very old for a wolf in the wild at 11 years of age.
Read MoreConservation groups sent a notice today of their intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to protect wolverines as required by the Endangered Species Act. There are fewer than 300 wolverines left in the Lower 48 and they remain threatened by habitat loss and climate change.
Read MoreOn the evening of July 2nd, Oregon Federal District Judge Michael McShane issued a legal order effectively halting the 571-acre “Lower Graves” old-growth timber sale in the Grants Pass Resource Area of the Medford BLM District.
Read MoreConservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for failing to respond to a 2018 petition requesting Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Siskiyou Mountains salamander.
Read MoreThe U.S. House of Representatives passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47), a public lands package that includes the Oregon Wildlands Act (S. 1548). The legislation would add more 250 miles of rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System and reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Read MoreA state court judge today upheld protection for gray wolves under the California Endangered Species Act. The ruling rejected a challenge from the Pacific Legal Foundation on behalf of the California Cattlemen’s Association and California Farm Bureau Federation.
Read MoreJudge Troy L. Nunley halted plans for post-fire, clear-cut logging in northern California’s Klamath National Forest. The court held that the Seiad-Horse timber sale project would illegally and irreparably harm aquatic resources with increased sedimentation, violate the Northwest Forest Plan’s restrictions on large snag removal from a late-successional reserve, and violate the National Environmental Policy Act for failing to analyze the effects of the project.
Read MoreFire expert Richard Fairbanks will be speaking at the Mount Shasta Resort’s Highland Room on Thursday, October 25 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. The resort is located at 1000 Siskiyou Lake Blvd. in Mount Shasta. This program will give attendees insight into how past land management practices brought on the mega-fires we’re enduring today, and show what we can do change that pattern.
Read MoreIn a win for conservation groups, a judge ruled today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must reconsider the denial of Endangered Species Act protection for Pacific fishers.
Read MoreHumboldt martens are currently under review for Endangered Species Act protection at the federal and state level, but Oregon law still permitted commercial fur trapping of the species. California banned the trapping of these secretive, mid-sized forest carnivores in 1946. The martens currently inhabit two distinct areas within the Siuslaw and Rogue-Siskiyou national forests.
Read MoreOregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that the U.S. Department of Interior Appropriations bill has passed the full Senate as part of a 2019 funding package, providing critical investments in wildfire suppression and recovery activities that are of particular importance to Oregon as wildfires rage across hundreds of thousands of acres.
Read More“The Chetco is an amazing Wild and Scenic river, renowned for its water clarity, world-class fishery of big fish, and for a full range of recreation including swimming, camping, and boating,” said Dave Lacey, owner of South Coast Tours, a local kayaking company. “People come from all over to enjoy the Chetco. It would be crazy to allow instream mining in this popular river.”
Read MoreASHLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups filed a federal petition for Endangered Species Act protection today for the Siskiyou Mountains salamander, a rare terrestrial salamander that lives in old-growth forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou region of southern Oregon and Northern California. The salamander is threatened by federal land-agency plans to ramp up logging in southern Oregon.
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Join in for our Climate report public debut! Discussions will include latest climate projections for the Rogue Valley, information about implications for forest fires, and how climate research informed the need for expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Read MoreGrants Pass, Or—A coalition of residents from the Illinois, Applegate and Rogue Valleys will gather to protest the BLM timber auction for the 287-acre Pickett Hog Timber Sale, above the Wild and Scenic Rogue River. The Pickett Hog Timber Sale is the first to be auctioned from the controversial Pickett West Project. Other timber sales are being developed from the Pickett West Project in the Applegate Valley and in the mountains above Selma, Oregon.
Read MoreJoseph Vaile, Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center
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