In 2019, the Bigfoot Trail Alliance received a Rose Foundation grant to fund work on the South Kelsey Trail in the Siskiyou Wilderness. We recruited 12 graduate CCC Backcountry Corpsmembers through a letter writing campaign. Once the letters were received, we sent letters back to the corpsmembers notifying them that they had been accepted into […]
Poker Flat
By Rees Hughes My wife, Amy, and I just spent the past couple of days enjoying beautiful fall weather in the Klamath Mountains. We camped at Poker Flat on the Bigfoot Trail and explored the nearby Port Orford-cedar Botanical Reserve and the stands of Noble Fir that survived the 2018 Natchez Fire. It was a […]
Kelsey Trail Collaborative
The South Kelsey Trail was first designated as a National Recreation Trail in 1979, but was used by early miners between 1855-1880 as a route between Crescent City and Fort Jones and other inland mines in the Klamath River region and Yreka. Along with the Old Kelsey Trail, the South Kelsey is a key portion […]
Big Trees
Marble Mountain Wilderness – Section 12 The Bigfoot Trail celebrates the amazing trees of the Klamath Mountains. Outside of Redwood Country in coastal Del Norte County, the trees don’t get much more impressive than in Section 12 of the Marble Mountain Wilderness. The preservation of lower elevation forests is rare in California. Exceptions are in […]
2019 Bear Creek (Boulder Creek) Trail Brush Out
The Bear Creek / Boulder Creek trail connecting the Stuart’s Fork drainage with Canyon Creek in the Trinity Alps Wilderness received attention from 5 stalwart crew members during the weekend of July 11 – July 14. Most of the work was lopping the alder laden north facing slope of this trail, in addition to moving […]
Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act
Rep. Huffman Introduces Northwest California Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act
2019 Klamath Mountain Snowpack Updates
2019 has been an exceptional year for snowpack in the Klamath Mountains.
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act & Eel River Wilderness
Celebrating 50 Years The Eel River Recovery Project has a goal to empower communities to collaborate in monitoring the ecological conditions of the Eel River. To share information about the health of the watershed and to work together to formulate and implement a restoration strategy They are hosting an event on November 4th at the Fortuna […]
