Mid Klamath Watershed Council

June 2021 Events, Announcements, Resources, and More - https://mailchi.mp//mid-klamath-watershed-council-june-2021

*Job Announcement*: Fire & Fuels Technician, Happy Camp Description: Field tech works independently or as a skilled member of a fuels management crew engaged in fuels reduction projects, including understory thinning, hand piling, pile burning, broadcast burning, fire line construction, defensible space creation and other fire safety activities. Uses a variety of hand and power tools, including chainsaws, firing equipment and/or portable pumps. Learn more: http://www.mkwc.org/get-involved/employment/

Last week to submit video, audio, and art entries for the Youth Firewise video! Learn more: http://www.mkwc.org/programs/fire-fuels/firewise-video/

Bring your questions about weeds to this online event showcasing the invasive plants of the season.

*Job Announcement* Forestry Tech Description: This position will be comprised mostly of field work. The Technician will help prepare forest units for treatments planned by the Western Klamath Restoration Partnership. Treatments are intended to reduce fuels hazards and provide fire protection to rural residents, improve ecosystem resilience to fire, restore culturally significant resources, improve wildlife habitat, and provide merchantable timber where appropriate. The work will be conducted with small field crews. This position is non-supervisory. Learn more at http://www.mkwc.org/get-involved/employment/

MKWC Director Will Harling and Fisheries Program Director Charles Wickman reviewed the helicopter wood loading project on upper Horse Creek today after high flows started engaging the wood structures. Already side channels are reconnecting, pool depths are increasing, and long dry floodplains are looking fishy! On the way home they stopped to marvel at the off-channel habitat at the mouth of Tom Martin Creek that was recently expanded by some busy beavers! Recent PIT tag data from returning adults to the Scott River are pointing to the critical role these Mid Klamath tributaries like Tom Martin play in supporting coho runs on the Scott River.

Our 2020 Newsletter is here! Articles from MKWC staff and board members cover a range of topics from all of our programs, including how the pandemic curve relates to the invasive plant curve, the west's reckoning with fire, and a somewhat unsettling visual of giant root wad dangling from a helicopter overhead during the Horse Creek wood loading project. "Flip" through it at our website: http://www.mkwc.org//publicat/newsletters/2020-newsletter/. We hope you enjoy and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The popular cost-share program FLASH is coming back to Orleans and Somes Bar (Humboldt County only, sorry!)! FLASH offers a rebate by the acre for fuels reduction done on your own place. FLASH prioritizes elders, people with disabilities, and low income residents. Be sure to go to the FLASH website (link on flyer) for more information and to fill out an interest form before mid January.

U.S. Forest Service - Six Rivers National Forest will be busy over the next couple of days conducting pile burns. Today (December 11), pile burning will take pl...ace in the following location: Orleans/Ukonom District: 60 acres in the Somes Bar Project area (Patterson #2243, 2247, 2292, 2257, and 2262); with Karuk Tribe and Mid Klamath Watershed Council partners; smoke may be visible to nearby residents and from Highway 96.

Congratulations to the 9 winners of the Mid Klamath 2020 Youth Art Contest! Check out the winners and winning entries at: http://www.mkwc.org//youth-programs/2020-youth-art-contest/. We hope you enjoy these works of art and feel uplifted by their resilient spirit! You can even order a t-shirt with one of the designs from the website. Thank you to all the incredibly talented youth from Orleans, Somes Bar, Happy Camp, and Forks of the Salmon, for participating in the 2020 Youth Art Contest.

A BIG THANK YOU to all who contributed to the Mid Klamath Watershed Council during #givingtuesday2020 yesterday. Your generosity helps to buoy our organization and its hardworking staff between grants and helps our grant funds to go further and accomplish more on the ground.