BLM & USFS Now Banning Campfires on National Wild & Scenic Rogue River
With record-breaking heat and increasingly dry conditions, federal agencies are prohibiting campfire use on lands located with the boundaries of the National Wild and Scenic Rogue River.
The Wild section of the Rogue flows from Grave Creek to the mouth of Watson Creek.
Effective immediately, Stage 2 fire restrictions are in effect and building, maintaining, attending or use of a fire is not permitted. Commercially-produced pressurized liquid or gas stoves are allowed. Cooking areas are to be naturally free of vegetation. Each group in the wild section must have a shovel and a bucket.
Smoking is only permitted while on watercraft on waterways, or on vegetation-free sand and gravel bars located between the river and the high water mark.
The Medford BLM District administers the stretch of river between Grave Creek and Marial where the Oregon Department of Forestry provides primary attack for fire management. The Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest manages from Marial downriver to the mouth of Watson Creek.
Additional fire restrictions will be put in place as fire season progresses and they will remain in effect through November 30th, unless conditions allow them to be reduced or rescinded sooner.
Posted on 7/11/25 6:41AM by Sam Marsh
