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Kettle Range Rendezvous
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Make plans now to attend the 2025 Kettle Rendezvous camp & hike at Jungle Hill Campground, located one mile north...
Defending
Wildlife
The Kettle Rangers work hard to protect wildlife habitat and minimize harm to wildlife species whose home is the Columbia Highlands. We advocate for gray wolf, cougar, and bear recovery. By valuing and protecting the Highlands’ wildlife, we preserve not only its ecological integrity but also the cultural and spiritual heritage tied to this land.
Protecting and Defending...
Grizzly Bear Recovery
We envision a future where grizzly bears will forever be free from the threat of hunting. The grizzly disappeared from much of the American continent in an historic heartbeat, after commanding a place at the top of the food chain from Canada to Mexico, and from the Mississippi River to the California coast, until the arrival of European settlers.
Protecting
Forest Watch
Frustrated by a culture of failed Forest Service promises, denied meaningful outcomes and a rubber-stamp timber program, fledgling pro-wilderness and old growth forest activists like Kettle Rangers turned to new strategies to protect and preserve wild forests: Forest Watch.
Conserving
Wilderness
Why Wilderness? The pressure of expanding development on our natural resources is putting the health of the land, wildlife and water at risk. Only 2.64% of the contiguous United States, an area about the size of South Dakota, is protected as Wilderness. 96% of official Wilderness in Washington is located in the Cascade Mountains and Olympic Peninsula. In northcentral and northeastern Washington just 3% of the Colville National Forest is protected wilderness.
A History of Wilderness Organizing
Kettle Range Conservation Group organized wilderness campaigns from 1976 to 1984 and again from 1995 to 2019. This work continues today, though in a more realistic process that in-part recognizes to reach the goal of permanent Wilderness without a congressional champion this cause, and no matter how much hard work dedicated activists invest and have invested all these many years little more than short-term objectives have been realized.
Wilderness designation for unprotected Public Wildlands is now and has been a long organizational goal.