KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER
PO BOX 102, ASHLAND, OR 97520

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center (KS Wild) protects wild nature in northern California and southern Oregon.

) Conservation Program: Throughout 2018, KS Wild was part of a coalition to defend the recent expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. We took part in weekly meetings with our partners and played a key role in disseminating media around the campaign. KS Wild continued to moderate the Cascade-Siskiyou social media channels, where we highlighted the values of the Monument and inconsistencies with the Administration's flawed Monument review process. We have also re-engaged with our Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers coalition to ensure administrative attacks on the recent mining moratorium are held at bay. Over the past 9 months, the Republican-led House Energy and Natural Resource Committee chairs have sent two letters to the Administration asking for the mineral withdrawal to be rescinded. Fortunately, there have been no official decisions from this administration to change the 2017 ruling. The year 2018 was one of the most active wildfire seasons in southwest Oregon in history. We saw a record number of days of hazardous and unhealthy air quality. KS Wild has been coordinating closely with the Western Environmental Law Center on a communications and social media strategy around fire and forest management. KS Wild worked extensively on keeping our members and communities updated about the fires and created a new Fire Resource page on our website to help gather the information. The webpage - https://www.kswild.org/fire-resources/ - has been our most trafficked page on our website since this summer. KS Wild's executive director worked with our local state representative Pam Marsh on the steering committee for her Fire & Smoke Summit. As for our Forest Watch activities and oversight, it's our understanding at this juncture that the agencies will hopefully pursue minimal salvage logging projects, but county and elected officials (and their allies in the timber industry) continue to apply pressure to the agencies to maximize timber volume out of the burned areas. KS Wild is also working with a broad coalition of partners in the Pacific Northwest to prepare for potential management plan revisions to the Northwest Forest Plan. The Trump Administration has been slow to ramp up the revisions, but they may be forthcoming and we need to be ready. Much of our work in coalition has been to focus on stopping bad forest reform bills from passing Congress that would rollback bedrock environmental protections under the guise of wildfire management reform.

Rogue Riverkeeper Program: The Rogue Riverkeeper program continued to focus in on a few key priorities in 2018, which include ongoing efforts to stop the construction of a 225 mile fossil fuel pipeline across southwest Oregon. We submitted technical comments to Oregon's DEQ and helped coordinate over 45,000 public comments to two state agencies overseeing important Clean Water Act permits. We also helped organize rallies for public hearings and testified at hearings on behalf of our organization and supporters. The state of Oregon is also currently working on new regulations governing private industrial forests. Rogue Riverkeeper submitted technical comments to Board of Forestry and ODF participated in Board of Forestry meetings, while generating public support letters from more than 200 individuals for protections around southern Oregon streams. At the local municipal level, we participated in strategic meeting advocating for more stringent standards around wastewater/stormwater runoff for compliance by municipalities. We worked with partners to develop an outreach campaign to limit wastewater impacts in the Rogue River. The Trump Administration is

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