UMPQUA WATERSHEDS PETITION FOR THE LISTING OF SPRING CHINOOK SALMON
Well, here we go again! As most of our faithful members know, Umpqua Watersheds – and a handful of sincerely committed members in particular – [...]
THE KEYSTONE ROLE OF OAKS IN PNW ECOSYSTEMS
By Ken Carloni
A couple of decades ago, a timber company clearcut all the conifers in a forest adjacent to a historic property in Yoncalla. While this was a [...]
North Umpqua Summer Steelhead Hatchery Program Update
By Ken Carloni
Those of you who are following Umpqua Watersheds’ reports and recent newspaper articles may be concerned about the status of the North Umpqua summer steelhead hatchery program. [...]
THE FATE OF NORTH UMPQUA SUMMER STEELHEAD: The Problem and the Solution
In 2021, 347 summer steelhead crossed the Winchester Dam to head up to their ancestral spawning streams in the upper reaches of the North Umpqua River. When settlers first arrived, [...]
BIOCHAR COMES TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD!
Ken Carloni
We had just completed a 12-acre biochar project at the Yew Creek Land Alliance property west of Riddle in the fall of 2020 when a young [...]
UW joins with other Conservation Groups to question Danger Tree removal on the Umpqua National Forest
Last month Umpqua Watersheds filed a complaint against the US Forest Service challenging their decision to indiscriminately remove trees along 65 miles of public roads comprising nearly 2600 acres of [...]
PROTECTING HOMES AND NATIVE FORESTS FROM WILDFIRE
PROTECTING HOMES AND NATIVE FORESTS FROM WILDFIRE:
Challenges and Opportunities
Since the early 2000s, wildfires have been getting larger, faster moving, and more destructive to homes, infrastructure, and [...]
Summer 2021 RESTORATION REPORT
Ken Carloni, Restoration Chair
In my Restoration Report in our Virtual Banquet video, I outlined a number of ongoing restoration projects Umpqua Watersheds is working on with coalitions of like-minded [...]
Umpqua Watersheds joins lawsuit to Protect Salmon
Environmental Groups Threaten To Sue To Protect Chinook Salmon Published April 22, 2021 at 10:31 AM PDT LISTEN • https://www.ijpr.org/show/the-jefferson-exchange/2021-04-22/fri-8-am-environmental-groups-threaten-to-sue-to-protect-chinook-salmon Riccardo Rossi, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15140983 /
It can be hard to keep track [...]
