Juliet Grable
JPR News ContributorJuliet Grable is a writer based in Southern Oregon and a regular contributor to JPR News. She writes about wild places and wild creatures, rural communities, and the built environment. Juliet is a volunteer firefighter and EMT for the Greensprings Rural Fire District. During her off time, she can be found exploring back roads and back country with her husband Brint and pup Roca.
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Wild bees are helping guide Klamath River restoration, providing pollen data that could shape planting in former reservoirs after dam removal. -
Five alternative designs could reconnect the Klamath River and Lower Klamath refuge, restoring water flows and improving habitat for birds and fish. -
Conservationists are fitting Western monarch butterflies with tiny solar-powered transmitters. What they learn from these e-tags could help the struggling population. -
A reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service and threats to federal funding could affect ongoing research in the Pacific Northwest. -
Nearly 14,000 birds have died in a Klamath Basin botulism outbreak, prompting cooperation and renewed interest in a long-term water strategy. -
Four dams fell. Now, Indigenous youth are paddling the Klamath from source to sea, reclaiming a river — and a part of themselves. -
In fire-prone Southern Oregon, residents of the Greensprings joined forces to carry out a 12-acre prescribed burn—lighting controlled fire to reduce wildfire risk and restore forest health. The effort reflects a growing movement to use“good fire” to reshape landscapes and build community resilience. -
Staffing uncertainties and delayed reimbursements threaten to gut the U.S. Forest Service’s capacity to care for the 1.8 million-acre Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. -
Project Beaver worked with the Bureau of Land Management to restore the large rodents to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. -
In his drive to slash government spending, President Donald Trump has frozen or terminated millions of dollars in federal agriculture grant contracts. This is leaving farmers, ranchers, and landowners in Southern Oregon confused and worried. -
Earlier this month, a levee separating Agency Lake and the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge was breached, re-connecting 14,000 acres of wetland habitat to Upper Klamath Lake. -
From Fires to Flowers, a program run by the non-profit Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, creates vibrant gardens in the scorched footprint of the 2020 wildfire, helping create a landscape that heals both people and pollinators.
