Author: Amie Siedlecki

Oftentimes, to encourage major improvements on something that you’re passionate about, it requires you to take a step back and let someone else make suggestions and bring their vision to READ MORE

Who would’ve thought that a plant named after two foods could be such a problem.    Garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) is a priority noxious weed and a true outlier within READ MORE

Picture this: you’re out walking the dog when you notice a dark substance flowing into a nearby storm drain along the sidewalk. It mixes with a puddle of water in READ MORE

The Rogue Basin Salmon Watch program is a K–12, field trip–based program that brings watershed education to students in both Jackson and Josephine counties. This fall, the program ran from READ MORE

It truly is a wondrous thing to see spawning salmon in Bear Creek. In the late fall, one can observe dozens of these amazing, anadromous creatures surging the waters in READ MORE

Stream Smart: A Rogue Basin Clean Water Project is a community-wide education and action campaign aimed at improving water quality in the Rogue Basin’s streams and rivers. It functions in READ MORE

Every year between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day weekend, water quality press releases are sent out to the local news outlets to share with the public. These advisory notices READ MORE

Beginning on March 1st, 2025, make a pledge to walk 3 miles each day (or the equivalent amount of steps using a fitness tracker), to honor the effort that many READ MORE

While the weather this week isn’t exactly inviting us all out to enjoy the outdoors, including participating in trash clean-ups and restoration events, we can all pretend it’s spring for READ MORE