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Following the lifting of the burn ban in Klickitat County, Mt. Adams Resource Stewards (MARS) conducted a small prescribed burn on approximately 2 acres of the Klickitat Rim parcel of the Mt. Adams Community Forest on Thursday, October 27, 2022. The burn was successfully conducted in-house with MARS staff and led by Lucas King, our certified burn manager. The site had been commercially thinned over the past year and then prepped for the burn. Beyond simply reducing fuel loads, the

Mt. Adams Resource Stewards is about bringing people together to affect positive change on the landscape that means so much to our communities. So this video created through Google Earth is not meant to stir controversy or serve as a critique of any one land owner or manager in the region. Rather, we hope it will serve to point out several obvious and underlying trends (such as the collaboration on public lands that has been necessary to build trust around

Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana)– aka Garry oak, Oregon oak The MARS Stewardship Crew is hard at work engaging in Oregon white oak restoration projects in Klickitat County.  In collaboration with the WA Department of Natural Resources, the Stewardship Crew has been conducting oak release thinnings on the Trout Lake Natural Area Preserve and the White Salmon Oaks Natural Area Preserve.  These projects are crucial to protecting and maintaining Oregon white oak due to continued losses and degradation of oak