Haleigh Martin: The festival is designed to inspire and engage your inner activist, to remind you that you hold power to create change and be a critical part of creating the world you wish to see.
KS Wild Side: Along with providing a sustainable supply of timber to rural communities in the Northwest, one of the main premises of the Northwest Forest Plan was to also protect species dependent on old-growth ecosystems, mainly the northern spotted owl, the red tree vole, and the marbled murrelet.
KS Wild Side: With the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program, the state of Oregon will see its first wildlife overpass built in Ashland’s backyard. The proposed wildlife overpass is located roughly at mile marker 1.7 on Interstate 5, just north of the California border.
KS Wild Side: As 2024 comes to a close, it’s always nice to reflect on the year, so we bring you a 2024 highlight reel featuring good news and positive updates for public lands and all that live in and enjoy them all across the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion across Southern Oregon and Northern California.
George Sexton: Most of the folks in Forest Service local leadership positions view their job as balancing the sometimes competing values of wildlife, fuels, recreation, timber and watersheds on public lands.
KS Wild Side: If you remember life pre-pandemic, you may remember the KS Wild Annual Dinner. What began more than a decade ago as a small, annual celebration of the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion has transformed into one of KS Wild’s largest events, and this year, we’re bringing it back!
KS Wild Side: A salmon’s journey is nothing short of miraculous. The Rogue River and its tributaries support some of the largest salmon populations in Oregon. Middle Rogue tributaries such as Bear Creek, flowing through Ashland, Talent, Phoenix, Medford and Central Point, often have chinook spawning through the end of October into the beginning of November.
KS Wild Side: We send staff and volunteers out to popular swimming holes to take samples to test in our lab for E. coli, a common bacteria that can lead to gastrointestinal illness for people and pets.
Michael Dotson: June is a great month to get out onto local public lands and trails, and there are plenty of hiking options for folks to enjoy with a quick drive out of the Rogue Valley.
George Sexton: The city of Ashland, the U.S. Forest Service and many private landowners are doing the best they can to address widespread low elevation conifer mortality. It remains to be seen if BLM public land managers are going to alleviate or contribute to the problem.
A Mt. Ashland Ski Area season that started early and has seen above average snowfall has brought strong attendance, but the nonprofit resort also had its challenging moments. Abundant snowfall will allow the area to extend the season with two additional weekends to include April 19-20 and April 26-27.
An artificial intelligence summit at Southern Oregon University Friday and Saturday sparked much debate about the rapidly evolving technology’s promise and pitfalls. The second annual Approaching AI Summit at Meese Auditorium and Stevenson Union on the SOU campus drew a larger crowd this year, with 250 in attendance.
Rep. Pam Marsh: The legislation “would give Oregonians buying tickets for concerts, sporting events and other entertainment events protections in an industry that has seen increasing unfair and unscrupulous activities that drive up the cost of tickets and/or falsely sell tickets that are unavailable.”
Four artists were asked if they could define at what line artificial intelligence could compromise human creativity. As they passed a microphone between each other, their conversation challenged the concept of a soul. The deep existential dive came on the first night of the Approaching AI Summit, the second year of an artificial intelligence (AI) summit in Ashland.
Picture This: Hannon family members joined with Southern Oregon University officials, faculty, staff, students and member of the public Thursday, March 13, to mark the 20th anniversary of Hannon Libary.
The top-ranked SOU Raiders softball team (25-1 overall, 9-0 Cascade Conference) matched the best start in team history with Saturday’s 8-0 and 9-1 victories, finishing off both in five innings. Ari Williams, a junior right fielder, went 6-for-6 with seven RBIs, a double, a triple and an inside-the-park home run during the doubleheader.
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