In a successful legal objection, the U.S. Forest Service regional office has directed the Klamath National Forest to reject the northern Californian Discovery Day mining proposal and has required the miners to clean up their mess.

Public Lands, water, wildlands, wildlifeKlamath SiskiyouMay 10, 2023forest service, usfs, mining, discovery day, pollution, public lands

BLM Old-Growth Timber Sale Deemed Illegal

The 571-acre “Graves” timber sale was halted on July 2nd, protecting mature and old-growth forests from logging, leaving forest canopy and wildlife habitat intact.

Public LandsGuest UserJuly 3, 2019graves, old growth, bureau of land management, legal order, wildlands, wildlife, conservation, accomplishments

In the 2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act, explained

Congress enacted a Fire funding fix that will stop the Forest Service practice of “borrowing” funding from Forest Service programs to use towards fighting wildfire. KS Wild is generally supportive of this approach, but several other provisions in this bill would impact our national forests. Check out the analysis of the bill from our friends at The Wilderness Society.

wildlands, Public LandsKlamath SiskiyouMarch 27, 2018top story

Salmon Protected: Suction Dredge Reform Success

On June 14, 2017, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed a Suction Dredge Reform bill into law, after passing out of the Oregon Legislature with bipartisan support. The new law permanently places rivers and streams that provide habitat for sensitive salmon and lamprey off limits from suction dredge mining.

water, Public Lands, feature 2Guest UserJuly 21, 2017

Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expanded

After four local public hearings and thousands of letters to elected officials, support for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument has been heard! On Thursday, January 12, 2017, President Obama used his authority under the Antiquities Act to expand the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southern Oregon.

CSNM, Public LandsKlamath SiskiyouMarch 27, 2017conservation, environment, ecosystem, klamath-siskiyou, ks wild, biodiversity, cascade-siskiyou national monument, monument, national monument, CSNM, oregon, southern oregon, watershed, oregon-california border, wildlands, public lands, great basin, sierra nevada, siskiyou mountians, cascade mountians, pilot rock, horseshoe ranch, jenny creek, california, northern california, rogue valley, cascade mountain range, little hyatt lake, moon prairie, hoxie creek, upper jenny creek, grizzly peak, surveyor mountain, tunnel creek wetlands, wetlands, department of interior, ashland, talent, forests, climate, soda mountain wilderness council, rogue valley audubon society, wilderness society, conservation lands foundation, friends of the cascade-siskiyou national monument, timber, logging, extraction

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