The Mid Klamath Creek Mouth Enhancement Project is one of the Mid Klamath Watershed Council’s longest running restoration projects, and has been implemented every summer for the past 13 years. This project has focused on improving access to cold water refugia for out-migrating juvenile salmonids and upriver adult migrants by remediating seasonal barriers to migration and enhancing creek mouths to ease passage into important cold water habitat.
Read MoreA photo recap of the MKWC youth crew 2022.
Read MoreThe Rogers Creek Meadow Restoration project’s focus was to improve the biodiversity and habitat of historic meadows, to reduce the risk and outcomes of catastrophic wildfires and to prepare these landscapes for the reintroduction of prescribed fire that has been suppressed over many years.
Read MoreDid you know that the Klamath River is home to three kinds of native mussels? Did you also know that these mussels spend a portion of their life cycle attached to fish gills? And more amazingly, only on specific fish species?!!!!!! Did you know that some of these native mussels live to be over a 100 years old? (They have age rings like a tree!) It is possible there are mussels in the Klamath River that have been there since the year 1918! Read on to find out more about the Klamath River’s native mussels.
Read MoreI keep a rain gauge at home, it is the simple variety. It looks like a little glass beaker tube with gradations.
Somehow it has become a ritual to record the weather. I share observations with my family, friends, community and colleagues. It can be particularly useful with respect to fire weather and “burn” windows, but the weather also often just seems like a good thing to talk about…
Neighborhoods throughout Humboldt County are taking advantage of the Fire-Adapted Landscapes & Safe Homes Program, better known as “FLASH”, including communities along the Klamath River.
Read MoreSpring is happening fast. The early season wildflowers, like houndstongue and trillium, are bumping right up to blooms we usually associate with early May, like redbud and Indian potatoes.
A spring that quickly moves towards summer makes for a busy weeding season too…
Read MoreThe Mid Klamath Watershed Council’s Fire and Forestry Program, in partnership with the Salmon River Restoration Council and the Cultural Fire Management Council, is excited to announce the arrival of our Listos Trailer.
Read MoreWith the shorter days and chillier temperatures of an approaching winter, MKWC staff share their favorite seasonal recipes. Whether you’re sharing a meal with a friend, celebrating a holiday, or trying to warm up after a rainy day outside, we hope you’ll find a recipe here that resonates with you. Here are some of our recommendations.
Read MoreThroughout these six weeks of summer, we witnessed an intern overcome her fear of snorkeling in the river, so much so that diving was listed as her favorite internship activity. We were impressed to see an intern hone in on fisheries identification, methodically learning the differences between a juvenile Coho, Chinook, and Steelhead. We watched two interns practice presenting a habitat lesson over and over, perfecting their rapport before presenting to a group of young students at summer camp.
Read MoreSay hello to MKWC’s newest fire engine addition!
Read MoreSpring in the Klamath Mountains is a celebration of flowers, capturing the magic of the region in beautiful blooms, glossy leaves, and powdery catkins. These plants provide crucial ecosystem resources, like nectar for pollinators and food for foraging, while also preventing erosion and improving soil health and water quality.
Read MoreWhat kind of future are we leaving behind when we go? Will it have wild rivers teeming with steelhead trout and salmon sandwiched between rugged wilderness areas in the mountains? Will it have rare native plant species and life-sustaining biodiversity? Will it have people who still remember a time when fire was more of a friend than a foe, people whose grandparents taught them to wield fire for the benefit of plants, animals and people? Will it have green jobs that help rural people support their families and pass local wisdom on to upcoming generations? Let’s hope so.
Read MoreIn the face of uncertainty, plants continue to grow, flower, and fruit, as long as there is someone to tend them (and sometimes even when there is not). They become more than a source of nutrition, they are a symbol of resilience, a place of connection in a time when we need it the most.
Read MoreHome gardens conjure images of vine-ripened tomatoes and fresh salads, but they can produce more than just salads and garnishes, and historically they have provided vital calories during times of crises. This article will review how a few different gardening writers have approached ways to maximize the amount of nutrition you can produce in your own garden.
Read MoreSometimes I worry about my social life. I work all day in a run-down old grocery store from my youth, jump around with my co-workers and community members for exercise in that same building after work, and for fun in the evenings I go to events with my co-workers, friends and neighbors under the same roof. I’m often here on weekends too…
Read MoreUnthinking we have built dams in rivers, walling off hundreds of miles of critical habitat for fish and interrupting what should be a dynamic process of fluctuating flows and habitat renewal.
Read MoreThis past spring, a contingent of fish habitat restorationists from around the Klamath River went up to Washington State to learn from four decades of salmon habitat restoration on the Olympic Peninsula and around the Puget Sound.
Read MoreIn that moment, feeling all warm and fuzzy on the inside, I jumped down from the pickup truck and I know we have made a difference. We’re not just making a difference because now we have a community apple press and a whole array of tools, equipment and infrastructure to grow, gather, process and store food. We have made a difference because the way we think about food and they way we relate to food and to each other has changed.
Read MoreUnlike our admirable formal educators, we informal educators do not have the same tools to evaluate success. We do not have continuous contact with students all day, five days a week, where we receive assignments and administer final exams (though we occasionally try to throw a pre and post test into the mix). Instead, true to our namesake, we rely on informal ways to evaluate our programs.
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