Contact us at 488-5789 or lesley@kswild.org to purchase any of these items.

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1. KS Wild T-shirts ($15)

Sport these cool organic cotton "Keep the KS Wild" t-shirts for only $15. These shirts showcase the endemic Siskiyou Mountain Salamander and elegant Port-Orford Cedar and come in men's and women's cuts (green, purple and sage colors).

2. KS Wild Cotton Tote Bags ($15)

Use fewer paper bags by utilizing this organic cotton tote with the Port-Orford Cedar brushed across one side and "Keep the KS Wild" on the other. Ocean (dark blue) and earth (dark brown) colors.

3. Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy edited by George Wuerthner (comes with a $75 KS Wild membership or a membership upgrade to our monthly Stewardship program starting at just $10/month)

Wildfires are an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon that have shaped North America’s landscapes since the dawn of time. They are a force that we cannot really control, and thus understanding, appreciating, and learning to live with wildfire is ultimately our wisest public policy. With more than 150 dramatic photographs, Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy covers the topic of wildfire from ecological, economic, and social/political perspectives while also documenting how past forest policies have hindered natural processes, creating a tinderbox of problems that we are faced with today. More than 25 leading thinkers in the field of fire ecology provide in-depth analyses, critiques, and compelling solutions for how we live with fire in our society. Using examples such as the epic Yellowstone fires of 1988, the ever-present southern California fires, and the Northwest’s Biscuit Fire of 2002, the book examines the ecology of these landscapes and the policies and practices that affected them and continue to affect them, such as fire suppression, prescribed burns, salvage logging, and land-use planning. Overall, the book aims to promote the restoration of fire to the landscape and to encourage its natural behavior so it can resume its role as a major ecological process.

4. The Rogue: Portrait of a River by Roger Dorband ($45)

Roger Dorband has been photographing Oregon's Rogue River since 1996. To date, his images of the river have been published as Rogue River calendars, been marketed to art lovers as limited edition prints, and used by architects to enhance public spaces. Now Dorband's images of the river are available in the form of a coffee table book, the first of its kind on the Rogue River.

Roger Dorband's "photographs — each a masterpiece in itself — capture what words are incapable of expressing: the spirit and essence of the Rogue River," from the foreword by Governor John Kitzhaber.

5. Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests by Derrick Jensen and George Draffan ($15)

Jensen (The Culture of Make Believe) and Draffan (A Primer on Corporate Power) are both pessimistic and angry about the state of the world's forests. In the U.S. only five percent of native forest remains; forests on a global level are also under attack, with one estimate claiming that two and a half acres are cut every second. International deforestation causes the extinction of plants and animals in addition to driving human forest dwellers, like the Karen of Burma, the Mapuche of Chile and the Penan of Malaysia, from their homelands. The destruction of forests also results in flooding, erosion and landslides. Production of paper products releases highly toxic chemicals into both the air and water. The authors provide many instances of collusion between industry and government, which has led to a U.S. commercial timber and logging industry permitted to destroy forests almost without restriction. Environmental agencies such as the Sierra Club or the Environmental Defense Fund, according to Jensen and Draffan, are more interested in raising money than in raising discomfort among the economically powerful. Globalization, they argue, is a network of financial, legal and political structures that operate for the benefit of the economic elite, allowing those in power to consume the natural resources of other nations. Although the text is occasionally overwrought, the authors have carefully documented worldwide deforestation, as well as the serious environmental and human consequences, and point a finger at those responsible.