programs

Watershed Education Program

Students of the Klamth-Siskiyou Outdoor School learn to work together to unwind the "Klamath Knot".

Youth involvement in local watershed management is essential to restoring the Klamath River and its surrounding communities. The  Klamath Youth Stewardship Project (KYSP) aims to inspire the next generation of resource professionals by involving students in hands-on service projects affiliated with habitat restoration, riparian monitoring, community development, and internship projects. Engagement in these stewardship roles encourage youth to make positive contributions towards the revitalization of their rural communities.

Orleans Middle School student learns to identify juvenile salmonids and record data from a downstream migrant fish trap.

MKWC’s Klamath Youth Stewardship Project introduces youth to important restoration issues by linking students with local experts and biologists to participate in on-the-ground projects that benefit our watershed, particularly salmonids. With funding from the California Department of Fish and Game, Pacific Lands Stewardship Council, and the US Fish and Wildlife Service students participate in the Klamath-Siskiyou Outdoor School, restoration raft trips, ecology kayaking courses, engage in high quality classroom curriculum, learn community art and craft skills at MKWC’s watershed center, and get out “into the field” to collect real data on downstream migrant fish traps and fall Chinook salmon spawner surveys. Students participate in invasive weed removal, water quality studies, fish passage improvement, fish migration studies, river clean-up, and fire ecology. To learn more about some of KYSP's activities click here.

A Collaborative Process

Local students participate in a creek mouth enhancement project on Sandy Bar Creek.

Community volunteers, Karuk Tribe, US Forest Service, Salmon River Restoration Council, California Department of Fish and Game, and Americorps Watershed Stewards Project cooperate with MKWC to provide an extensive watershed education program throughout the Mid Klamath. Listed below are some of the important events MKWC has participated in to support our Klamath Basin partners.

• Hoopa Fish Fair
• Salmon Relay Run
• Bigfoot Birding Day
• Fish Count Trainings
• Forks of Salmon Watershed Education Fair
• Junction Elementary Outdoor School
• Six Week Real Science Curriculum provided by AmeriCorp WSP