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New BLM Conservation Rule: A Step Forward for America's Wildlands and Wildlife, Yet Challenges Persist in Oregon
New BLM Conservation Rule: A Step Forward for America's Wildlands and Wildlife, Yet Challenges Persist in Oregon

The Biden Administration has announced a federal rule for how the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) mission addresses the climate and biodiversity crises, attempting to re-balance BLM’s multi-use mandate for managing public lands, which for decades has favored resource extraction over any other use.

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Cascade-Siskiyou, Campaign, Climate, Connectivity, Earth Day, Forests, Old-Growth, Public Lands, Wildlands, WildlifeKlamath SiskiyouBLM, old-growth forest, public land, Public lands, Bureau of Land Management, Biden Administration, biodiversity, public lands rule, executive order, wildlife, top story
Update on the Poor Windy Old-Growth Timber Sale
Update on the Poor Windy Old-Growth Timber Sale

The Medford District BLM Poor Windy Timber Sale allows logging on more than 15,000 acres, including cutting down 4,573 acres of mature and old-growth trees.

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Backyard Forests, Campaign, Climate, Forests, Old-Growth, Public Lands, WildlandsHaleigh Martinold growth, old-growth forest, old-growth, poor windy, timber, timber sale, nso, northern spotted owl, salmon run, carbon, Climate, Climate Change, top story, Medford BLM, BLM, Bureau of Land Management, mature, wildlife, public land, Public lands, public forests, biological opinion
Imperiled species highlight: The northern goshawk
Imperiled species highlight: The northern goshawk

The northern goshawk is an avian species whose population directly relies on the extent of the presence mature and old-growth forests and has been on the decline alongside mature and old-growth forests. The species is currently not listed under the ESA. Read more about the goshawk here.

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Forests, Old-Growth, WildlifeKlamath Siskiyouwildlife conservation, wildlife, us fish and wildlife, department of fish and wildlife, imperiled species, endangered species, endangered species act, endangered species list, california, logging, habitat
Imperiled Species highlight: The Siskiyou Mountains salamander
Imperiled Species highlight: The Siskiyou Mountains salamander

We are so wild about the Siskiyou Mountains salamander, it is the KS Wild mascot! We continue to advocate on behalf of this species that is only found in the Klamath-Siskiyou region. Learn more about our efforts to protect this species through advocacy that dates back over two decades here.

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Wildlife, Wildlands, Public LandsKlamath Siskiyouwildlife conservation, wildlife, imperiled species, logging, salvage logging, endangered species, endangered species act, endangered species list, oregon endangered species list
What is in the new inventory of mature and old-growth forests?
What is in the new inventory of mature and old-growth forests?

The US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released the first ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests. Want to know what this all means for the protection of forests in the Pacific Northwest?

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Campaign, Climate, Forests, Old-Growth, Public LandsKlamath Siskiyouimperiled species, old-growth forest, old growth, old-growth, Forests, usfs, forest service, US Forest Service, BLM, Medford BLM, Bureau of Land Management, logging, timb, timber sale, wildlife, climate, Climate Change, Climate, climate smart, climate program, forests
The Benefits of Beaver
The Benefits of Beaver

Considering that Oregon is known as the “Beaver State,” regulations are lacking to protect this iconic animal that is present in so many waterways and provides so many ecological and hydrological benefits. Can we, as humans, use our skills to coexist with this essential critter? Proposed HB 3464 will change how Oregonians relate to beavers.

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Campaign, Climate, Public Lands, Rogue Riverkeeper, Water, WildlifeKlamath Siskiyouwildlife, wildlife conservation, beaver, beavers, legislation, oregon legislature, rogue riverkeeper
The Year Ahead: KS Wild's Priorities for 2020
The Year Ahead: KS Wild's Priorities for 2020

To be the eyes and ears of public lands defense requires KS Wild’s ForestWatch staff to be diligent in how we approach the scope of our work. Read about our plans for 2020, which defending public lands in a number of vital ways.

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Climate, Fire, Forests, Rogue Riverkeeper, Stewardship, Public Lands, Wild Rivers, WildlifeGuest Userforests, climate change, klamath-siskiyou mountains, klamath-siskiyou region, oregon, wildlife, wilderness, stewardship, volunteer, wild rivers, wild and scenic rivers
Healthy Watersheds, Resilient Forests
Healthy Watersheds, Resilient Forests

Following decades of fire suppression and logging that created dense young forests, a return to ecosystem resiliency requires thinning second-growth plantations, retaining large trees and forest canopy, and returning the role of fire to these fire-dependent forests.

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Water, Forests, ClimateKlamath Siskiyouconservation, environment, ks wild, klamath-siskiyou, ecosystem, biodiversity, water, forests, mining, logging, salvage, forestfire, climate, watershed, fire, wildfire, fire dependant, forest service, resilience, fire suppression, salmon, salmonidae, oncorhynchus, fish, wildlife, klamath river, smith river, rogue river, grazing, cattle, off-road vehicle, public lands, refuge, fire resilient, old-growth forest, strip-mining, steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss, rainbow trout, trout, riparian, BLM, clearcutting
Logging in the Klamath-Siskiyou
Logging in the Klamath-Siskiyou

Increasingly timber interests, conservationists including KS Wild, scientists and federal land management agencies are coming together to focus logging activities on thinning previously logged plantations and in fire-evolved forest stands in which fire suppression has resulted in encroachment by less resilient off-site conifers.

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Where will wolves go from here?
Where will wolves go from here?

At KS Wild, we have a deep admiration for this creature that so deeply epitomizes the wilderness. Unfortunately, the story of the wolf is one of systematic persecution and deep-rooted mythologies that inspire fear in people. Some say the removal of the wolf is a bitter reflection of our society’s tendency to suppress all things wild; others, want nothing more than to allow wolves to fade into extinction.

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The Big, Wild 5
The Big, Wild 5

Unlike most of North America, we are extremely fortunate to live in a region in which five major wildland complexes have thusfar survived the pressures from logging, mining and road construction. It is our job and responsibility to protect these special places for the those who come after us and for their intrinsic value.

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Legal History of O&C Land
Legal History of O&C Land

The 1937 O&C Act overhauled the timber management and revenue distribution scheme. It allowed the federal government to pay fifty percent of gross timber revenues directly to the O&C counties, plus twenty five percent (for unpaid Railroad property taxes) to O&C lands. In 1953 Congress directed 25% of the revenue to road building and other capital improvements on the O&C lands, leaving only 50% paid to counties. These payment schemes tied timber harvests to county revenues and made county government a champion of increased logging.

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Cascade-Siskiyou Monument Expanded
Cascade-Siskiyou 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.

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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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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
Public Lands for All
Public Lands for All

While most Americans cherish the idea that public lands belong to and benefit all of us, corporate timber, mining and grazing interests have long sought to privatize public lands in order to maximize profits to their respective industries. While subsidized logging, mining and grazing occur on the vast majority of public lands, these extremists bristle at the idea of there being any rules regarding their exploitation of our forests and rivers.

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Protecting Our BLM Backyard Forests
Protecting Our BLM Backyard Forests

Western Oregon’s BLM lands support salmon, steelhead, and wildlife while delivering clean water and recreational values to the public. These forests are source-drinking watersheds for hun-dreds of thousands of Oregonians, they sequester large amounts of carbon, and they provide crucial ecological functions. The natural amenities found on these public lands are highly valued and sought after, from local residents to tourists from around the world.

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Homecoming
Homecoming

After decades of trapping and poisoning, the last wolf in California was shot in 1924. Since then, roads and highways were built and huge tracts of forest have been converted to industrial tree farms. Today, the wolf re-enters a landscape filled with strip-malls, subdivisions, climatic shifts and severe drought. It will take work with residents in areas where wolves migrate to ensure co-existence.

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