Environment
KS Wild Side: Blue Heron Creek emerges as beacon of hope
KS Wild Side: Blue Heron Creek, represents a beacon of hope amid the mounting environmental challenges faced by wetlands and waterways.
November 10, 2023
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KS Wild Side: Blue Heron Creek, represents a beacon of hope amid the mounting environmental challenges faced by wetlands and waterways.
KS Wild Side: The Fall Film Series will showcase two films that explore the origins of environmental activism from a policy standpoint and from a front-line advocate’s standpoint: “Stewart Udall: The Politics of Beauty” and “Sisters in Arms,” which features Julia Butterfly Hill.
KS Wild: Whether you’ve recently moved to the Rogue Valley and are looking to build community or you’re a local interested in becoming an active advocate for the region’s wild nature, there is a place for you at KS Wild.
KS Wild Side: Are the nearby rivers, creeks and lakes clean enough to swim in? Rogue Riverkeeper’s Swim Guide has the answer.
KS Wild Side: Southern Oregon may be able to add wildlife corridors to prevent animal-automobile collisions along highways.
KS Wild Side: If you’ve been curious about what KS Wild or Rogue Riverkeeper has to offer, we encourage you to find an upcoming hike or event to learn more about us and our work and become a part of our awesome community.
The online Wild & Scenic Film Festival brings together community to celebrate KS Wild’s work to protect the Klamath-Siskiyou wildlands and restore clean water in the Rogue Basin.
KS Wild Side: “Prescribed fires are also known as controlled burns. This is the practice of intentionally setting fire by an expert team under identified weather conditions to restore fire-dependent ecosystems.”
KS Wild Side: “(The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument) contains an extraordinary array of plants, animals, and distinct ecoregions, all with increasing needs for protection.”
KS Wild Side: “Middle Rogue tributaries like 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.”
Ashland Creatives: Grandma Boom has a range of activities that focus on all five senses, often asking the students to notice the difference between feeling calm and feeling stressed through a variety of activities engaging each sense.
A new policy being inaugurated this winter at the Mt. Ashland Ski Area to limit uphill access, used mainly by backcountry skiers and snowboarders, is being challenged by some but is being defended by ski area managers.
Janai Mestrovich: Inner guidance insisted that not one thought of worry, fear, anxiety, doubt or anger could enter this healing process. And it didn’t. Too much was at stake.
Herbert Rothschild: Our dying empire is in the grip of the military-industrial complex, which is only hastening its demise.
Laurie True: The rules in this proposed ordinance are minimal and fair: If you want a place to sleep or camp here in Ashland, you need to use a city shelter or designated space.
The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest will be managing a controlled burn on behalf of the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project that is expected to bring smoke into Ashland in the evening hours today, Nov. 30.
(It’s free)