Friends of the Kalmiopsis is a local conservation advocacy group focused on protecting the rivers, botanical diversity, and roadless wildlands of the Kalmiopsis region in southwestern Oregon and northwest California. The organization works to defend wilderness values, promote river conservation, support restoration and trail stewardship, and oppose industrial-scale mining and other development that would threaten water quality, salmon habitat, and rare plant communities.
Public lands protection and wilderness designation, Wild and Scenic Rivers protection, restrictions on mineral extraction and large-scale mining, watershed and salmon habitat conservation, botanical and biodiversity protection, forest restoration and post-fire recovery, trail and recreation stewardship, federal land management and NEPA processes
Primarily small donations and membership support, occasional foundation grants and project-specific grants, fundraising events and partnerships with other conservation groups
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, Kalmiopsis Audubon Society, Native Fish Society, American Rivers, American Whitewater, Smith River Alliance, local river guide associations and community conservation partners
Non-profit conservation advocacy organization (local / grassroots)
