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Wildlife Advocacy
Wildlife Advocacy

Part of our work at KS Wild is to track management decisions by the US Fish and Wildlife service to list at-risk species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. In continuing a 22-year battle to protect their declining populations, we filed lawsuit with three of our conservation allies to list the Pacific fisher. Other species we continue to fight for include the Siskiyou Mountain Salamander, the Wolverine and four species of Lamprey.

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Oregon Spotted Frog, WildlifeKlamath Siskiyouconservation, environment, ecosystem, klamath-siskiyou, ks wild, biodiversity, wildlife, oregon spotted frog, spotted frog, Rana pretiosa, northern spotted owls, birds, amphibians, Strix occidentalis caurina, pacific fisher, mammals, madrones, Arbutus unedo, oak, quercus, trees, botanticals, salmonidae, salmon, forests, salvage, forestfire, wildfire, endemic, appalachia, southern appalachia, migration, mexico, central mexico, southern oregon, northern california, oregon, california, protection, at-risk species, us fish and wildlife, threatened species, endangered species, endangered species act, siskiyou mountain salamander, Plethodon stormi, wolverine, Gulo gulo, lamprey, petromyzantiformes, fish, wildlands, gray wolves, gray wolf, wolves, wolf, western wolf, timber wolf, american wolf, Canis lupis, animals, source habitat, hotspots, kalmiopsis, siskiyou crest, marble mountains, trinity alps, cascade range, road-building, northern goshawk, Accipiter gentilis, marbled murrelet, Brachyramphus marmoratus, red tree vole, Arborimus longicaudus, western pond turtle, Actinemys marmorata, Emys marmorata, green sturgeon, Acipenser medirostris, coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, game management, wildlife conservation, hunting, fishing, department of fish and wildlife, oregon department of fish and wildlife, funding, climate, jack creek, fremont-winema national forest, cattle, grazing, drought, forest service, wetlands, jack creek wetlands, riparian, groundwater, logging, Martes pennanti
BLM Releases Management Plan for 2.6 Million Acres in Oregon
BLM Releases Management Plan for 2.6 Million Acres in Oregon

The Bureau of Land Management administers the public forests that surround communities in Western Oregon. These are our backyard forests! Places like the Wild Rogue River, the Applegate Valley foothills and rare plant hotspots in the Illinois Valley deserve our best conservation efforts.

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Forests, Backyard ForestsKlamath Siskiyouconservation, environment, ecosystem, klamath-siskiyou, ks wild, forests, logging, salvage, forestfire, wildfire, backyard forests, southern oregon, northern california, oregon, california, water, wild rivers, public lands, clean water, fish, wildlife, old-growth forest, BLM, public forests, western oregon, wild rogue river, rogue river, applegate valley, applegate, hotspots, illinois valley, land management, road-building, fire management, clearcutting, watershed
How Clean is the Water? Visit Swim Guide for Current Conditions
How Clean is the Water? Visit Swim Guide for Current Conditions

Rogue Riverkeeper has monitored local streams for fecal bacteria, turbidity, pH, temperature, and conductivity with a number of great partners throughout our region. Our past efforts have documented steadily declining water quality throughout the Little Butte Creek watershed, improving water quality on Evans Creek, and highlighted the source of pollution on Ashland Creek so that steps could be taken to improve the situation.

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Rogue Riverkeeper, WaterKlamath Siskiyouconservation, environment, ecosystem, ks wild, klamath-siskiyou, biodiversity, water, water quality, clean water, rogue riverkeeper, swimming, swim guide, pollution, contamination, rogue river, emigrant lake, emigrant reservoir, rafting, bacteria, fecal bacteria, ph, temperature, turbidity, conductivity, little butte creek, watershed, evans creek, ashland creek, safety, hotspots, lost creek lake, lost creek reservoir, applegate river, ruch, illinois river, selma, gold hill, grants pass, ashland, health, waterkeeper swim guide, rogue basin, north america, drought, streams, toxins, algae, klamath river, great lakes, gulf of mexico, public waters, app, swim guide app, tributary, volunteer, fishing
Smith River National Recreation Area: Off-Road Vehicle Playground or Botanical Wonderland?
Smith River National Recreation Area: Off-Road Vehicle Playground or Botanical Wonderland?

The public lands in the Smith River Watershed are legendary for their unique botanical diver- sity and for providing clear, cold water to the largest un-damned river system on the West Coast. It is a stunning and spectacular part of America’s natural heritage that is literally like nowhere else on Earth. 

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