BLM sells old-growth, locks public & press out of public lands auction
The Medford Bureau of Land Management is in full anti-democracy mode these days.
They contend that they aren't logging old-growth when the Last Chance timber sale knowingly calls for 3,600-acres of northern spotted owl nesting, roosting and foraging old-growth habitat removal. They claim they aren't clearcutting while authorizing "gap creation" logging across the landscape. And now they literally lock their doors to prevent the public and the press from attending their old-growth timber sale donut and coffee party with their buddies in the timber industry. America is better than this shameful exercise in agency arrogance.
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KS in the Press
Today forest conservation organizations filed a legal challenge in Medford federal district court challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) latest old-growth timber sale located in the Cascade foothills east of the community of Sunny Valley, Oregon.
KS Wild and partners are litigating against the BLM’s Rogue Gold timber sale behind the community of Gold Hill and Rogue River, OR. The forests being targeted for logging are resilient, healthy, older forests that are designated as reserves for conservation, recreation, and water protection.
KS Wild and partners are taking the BLM to court on Tuesday, April 2nd against the BLM’s Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) project.
Breaking News! The D.C. Court of Appeals just affirmed the legality of an expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. This is a pivotal decision that means that Western Oregon BLM lands can be managed for social and environmental values, not just timber production.
In a legal victory, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today agreed to reconsider whether West Coast fishers in northern California and southern Oregon warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Read the full press release here.
A coalition of conservation organizations filed a legal complaint challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Integrated Vegetation Management” (IVM) program that would aggressively log forest stands located within Late Successional Reserves, areas purportedly set aside for forest conservation.
Judge in the District Court for the District of Oregon ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service justification for Bureau of Land Management timber sales totaling nearly 18,000 acres including old growth forests violated the Endangered Species Act.
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center joined the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center in suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for denying endangered species protection to West Coast fishers.
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🚨 URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Send a letter to your senator opposing the sell-off of millions of acres of public lands!
The Medford BLM is back at it. They’re targeting forest reserves…again…this time outside of Williams, OR in the footprint of their unsuccessful Late Mungers timber sale. Click to learn more and take action!
The Rum Creek timber sale was planned in secret with no public commenting process at all. That makes it hard to make your voice heard. If you'd like to contact the BLM with your views about clearcutting and logging, take action today!
Rather it is the result of decades of fire exclusion that allowed conifers to overtake hardwood ecosystems combined with the climate change-induced heat domes and drought. All of which result in young fir stands being especially vulnerable to mortality. Now the BLM wants to log their way out of the problem. Let's make sure they get it right.
The U.S. Forest Service is working to update every national forest plan in the country to protect old growth, which could become one of the most meaningful safeguards for federal forests that we have seen in decades. The agency is currently seeking public input on how they’ll manage public forests for generations to come. This is a unique opportunity that we don’t want to miss.
Currently the 8,150-acre "Last Chance" timber sale calls for logging most of the remaining mature and old-growth forests in the foothills between Sunny Valley and Galesville. Take action now to help defend this essential forestland.
Five Areas of Critical Environmental Concern within the CSNM are at risk. Please take a moment to click and write to the BLM that these special places in Monument need to be recognized and protected!
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Click to explore the Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) of the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. You may be surprised to recognize quite a few of these incredible places.
We are lucky to have some of the wildest terrain in the lower 48 right in our backyards, but the current administration has its target set on rolling back protections to exploit them. Read about what the 2001 Roadless Rule means for the KS region and the threats it faces.
Alex Hole meadow is a botanical gem atop the Siskiyou Crest. Read about our efforts to partner with the USFS to protect the botany and consequentially the wildlife species of the Crest in our stewardship work.
KS Wild and partners held the 2025 Wildlife Connectivity Symposium. Click here to read a report about what we learned and what we saw during this two-day event.
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Join us outside!
The BLM is barreling ahead with their plans to log the old-growth forest stands in its Last Chance project just east of the community of Sunny Valley, Oregon. We invite you to join us for 1 of 2 public groundtruthing field days this fall. Click to learn more.
Art & activism go hand in hand. Join our friend Corbin at the KS Wild office for a cozy evening of crafting. All supplies are provided, and you’ll leave with your own felted turtle! 50% proceeds benefit KS Wild.
Chinook salmon return every fall to spawn in Bear Creek, the most urbanized tributary of the Rogue River and an easy place to see them is along the Bear Creek Greenway in Central Point around the Pine Street bridge. Join us for this magnificent experience!

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A ‘one stop shop’ for all the resources you need to acquaint yourself with the forests of the Siskiyou region and how to prepare your home for a wildfire.