KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER

Rogue Riverkeeper: Our Rogue Riverkeeper program downsized in 2023, as long-standing grantors and foundations pulled back support following the completion of our campaign on Jordan Cove LNG. However, our personnel still managed to advocate for, and support, measures that promote clean water and fish habitat. Rogue Riverkeeper worked with community members to officially name and protect Blue Heron Creek in Phoenix. We also sought and received protection for a springs complex in the same area that would have been paved and built upon. The unhoused population living along riparian areasespecially along Bear Creek continues to be a challenge that crosses jurisdictions and authorities. As a small non-profit organization, Rogue Riverkeeper participated in collaboratives like the Bear Creek Restoration Initiative where partners including Jackson County and other city representatives work to protect the ecological function of Bear Creek and its riparian area while supporting humane and safe conditions for all community members. We helped pass the Living with Beaver bill that will help private landowners improve waterways and wetlands in the state. Jet boats on the Upper Rogue remained a challenge.

ForestWatch Program: Thousands of supporters spoke up over the course of the year to weigh in on local timber sales and other projects. With the help of litigation partners, conservation allies, and local community members, our efforts to protect wildlife and forests: Protected and retained old-growth forests surrounding Lake of the Woods on the Fremont-Winema National Forest. Filed a legal challenge to the Medford District BLMs plan to accelerate old-growth logging in the Late Successional Reserve land use allocation. Prevented logging the Late Mungers and Penn Butte old-growth timber sales above the community of Williams. Oregon. Thwarted salvage logging clearcutting and road construction on steep-erosive decomposed granitic slopes in the headwaters of the Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest. Convinced the Shasta-Trinity National Forest to drop or modify hundreds of acres of logging that would have removed late-successional Northern spotted owl habitat. Achieved in the modification, improvement or cancelation of numerous projects across the region. Prevailed in litigation to protect Oregon spotted frog fens and wetlands from grazing near the community of Chemult.