Recent Success for the Klamath-Siskiyou

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.

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.

Overwhelming support from local communities and more than 70,000 comments in favor of protecting wild rivers and drinking water made a difference in defending against the imminent threat of nickel strip mining. On January 13, 2016, the Department of the Interior signed off on a 20-year mining ‘time-out’ that encompasses 100,000 acres and 100 miles of the North Fork Smith, Illinois River, and Hunter Creek watersheds.

Thanks to the Rogue River- Siskiyou National Forest and the NW Youth Corps for teaming up with us to protect this special place.

A broad coalition of local and regional conservation groups including KS Wild secured a victory on the Fremont-Winema to protect rare and threatend frog populations from excessive public lands grazing.