KS Wild’s Climate Program engages policy makers and land managers at the local, state, and federal levels to take bold action to prevent the worst impacts of climate change, while also advancing on-the-ground projects that prepare our region for coming changes.

KS Wild was founded to defend and restore the biological diversity, wild places, and at-risk species in the Klamath-Siskiyou region in 1997. Since that time, climate change has emerged as the leading threat to KS Wild’s mission. Climate change is already happening. It is the issue of our time. Even if we stopped pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere tomorrow, climate change is with us. For the West Coast of the U.S., nearly all of the hottest summers on record have been in the past five years. While we take action to stop climate change, we also need to help adapt our communities and environments to the changes that are already taking place.