Join us for our annual potluck and open house event!

MARS Prescribed Fire Coordinator Emery Cowan shares examples of pre- and post-fire monitoring at 3 units burned during the fall of 2025.

Check out our new interactive map to explore MARS’s impact on the Mt. Adams landscape.

MARS helped build a new county-wide website to connect residents to wildfire information, resources, and programs.

An update on the wildfire mitigation efforts underway this spring, led by our Fire & Fuels Program staff.

MARS undertook a thinning project on the Pine Flats tract of the Mt. Adams Community Forest to remove beetle-killed trees and take advantage of an advantageous market for pine.

University of Oregon undergraduate researcher Flora Booker discusses her recent experiences collecting data on understory plants in burned and unburned units of the Mt. Adams Community Forest.

MARS Monitoring Coordinator Dave Ryan describes foundational ecological concepts through the case study of an underwing moth observed during fieldwork in Oregon.

Members of MARS’s Bullfrog Removal Action Team describe their work and recent successes in supporting native species recovery in the Glenwood Valley and Columbia Gorge.

MARS hosted local summer campers on the Mt. Adams Community Forest to learn about fire management, beneficial fire, and fire ecology. The result? Two heartwarming days for our staff, and hopefully a new cohort of future land stewards!

MARS Monitoring Coordinator Dave Ryan describes a fascinating find during his field work on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

MARS released its first quarterly email newsletter, describing updates to MARS’s Fire & Fuels Program and featuring two new staff members.

Once the excitement of a prescribed burn on the Mt. Adams Community Forest is over, a new process begins. The forest, in its quiet and incremental way, recovers from and responds to the fire. And Dave Ryan, MARS’s Monitoring Coordinator, takes a moment to watch.

Read about two post-burn monitoring efforts on the Pine Flats tract of the Mt. Adams Community Forest.

Read our newsletter for updates on fuel break work, community forest management news, board and staff updates, reflections from a first-year Stewardship Crew member, and much more.

Join MARS for our sixth annual Pig Roast, potluck and open house event on Thursday, July 10 at 5pm at Camp Draper!

MARS Monitoring Coordinator, Dave Ryan, in collaboration with the Wishpush Working Group (WWG), was recently involved with the rehabilitation and release of a beaver back into the wild.

An update from Sienna Krulis, survey crewmember, about observations and results from the 2025 Oregon spotted frog (OSF) egg mass surveys at Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Plus a very cool video of OSF vocalizations!