Protecting the beautiful rivers, wild lands and legendary botanical diversity of Oregon's Kalmiopsis Country
Protecting the beautiful rivers, wild lands and legendary botanical diversity of Oregon's Kalmiopsis Country
Introduction and fall of 2018 update On July 13, 2002, a lightning storm ignited five fires in southwest Oregon’s rugged river-rich Kalmiopsis region. Four of the fires, plus massive U.S. Forest Service burnout operations (part of the agency’s fire suppression…
Update and great news This post was previously updated in May of 2014. We began updating it again in early 2018 because we learned that the 2017 Chetco Bar fire burned through the part of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness where Emily…
The Labrador Fire is burning across from Oak Flat on the Wild and Scenic Illinois River. Oak Flat is a small group of private inholdings surrounded by the Siskiyou National Forest portion of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. During the…
The latest update for the Labrador Fire (10:55 a.m.) can be found on the SWOFire website. It was at 300 acres. The latest (10:30 a.m.) information about Southwest Oregon fires in general is here. The Whiskey complex on the Umpqua National…