My name is Parker Burrill and I am a current undergraduate at Southern Oregon University majoring in Ecology and Conservation. In a Fire Ecology course I was given the opportunity to compile a film that focused on a specific aspect of fire. My film “Resilience” aims to draw attention to the concept of resilience, both ecologically and socially. The Almeda Fire of 2020 was a devastating event that caused severe damage and loss in our Rouge Valley community. Personally, I was e
Touching a stream in mid-autumn, letting the cold water numb your skin, has a special way of connecting you to a moment, a place, a feeling. When you add the presence of Chinook salmon, some almost 2 feet in length, swimming so close as to brush against the insulated fabric of your boot, that feels even more memorable. Some of my fellow staff and I at Jackson Soil & Water Conservation District had the privilege of visiting Spencer Creek, a tributary to the now undammed sectio
A place becomes a home when it is known. Dwellings, Linda Hogan Like countless others, I had only ever breezed past the Rogue Valley on the I-5, until about a year ago when I took a job with The Nature Conservancy (TNC). On my first day, my coworkers whisked me into the Ashland watershed, through an area which had been tended to through the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project. For years, they had stewarded and monitored that land, learning every valley and every rise, and
