Klamath Outdoor Science School has a permanent home on KlamathLiving.com. Every newsletter and news release KOSS sends out now lands on their own page on this site — klamathliving.com/who-we-support/koss/ — in full, in their own words, with their own photos.

We call it a Community Showcase, and it is exactly what it sounds like. The page belongs to the organization, not to us. Nothing gets paraphrased into a press release. Nothing gets cut to fit a column. KOSS writes it, and we give it a permanent address, a search-friendly page, and a link anyone can share.

Why start with KOSS

Because twenty years of getting Klamath Basin kids outside is worth a page of its own. KOSS runs Oregon's Outdoor School program for local fifth and sixth graders, plus summer camps, school-year field trips, and teen programs — more than 1,500 students in a typical year.

Their Summer 2026 newsletter, the first update on the new page, is a good example of what would otherwise disappear into an inbox.

They held their first Survival Skills Camp in July. Campers learned to make fire, build a shelter, use a compass, and twist natural cordage out of stinging nettle. Perry Chocktoot, an Elder of the Klamath Tribes, taught hands-on flintknapping — campers chipped away at obsidian with a copper rod until they had a sharp point, and took their arrowheads home. On the last day, two teams ran a survival scavenger hunt that put every skill together, and the real test turned out to be working as a team.

For the third summer running, KOSS partnered with the Klamath County School District to take summer-school students outdoors for a four-day series — Moore Park, Spence Mountain, the Link River Trail paired with a visit to the Favell Museum, and a tour of the Badger Run Rehabilitation Center. Because Oregon's summer learning grants prioritize literacy, the instructors built reading into all of it: nature journaling, identification guide books, and sorting fact from opinion in news articles about their own community.

And nobody was turned away over money. Funding from the Assistance League of Klamath Basin and the Klamath County Cultural Coalition covered scholarships for dozens of campers this summer.

All of that is on their page right now, along with four earlier updates going back to their 20th-anniversary announcement. Go read it — and if you like what they do, their donate link is right there on the page.

Your organization can have one too

Here is the part we actually want you to notice: the Community Showcase is open to other Klamath Basin organizations, and it is free.

If you run a nonprofit, a school program, a service club, or a community group here and you already write a newsletter that only your mailing list ever sees, we would like to give it a home where the whole Klamath Basin can find it. Same deal as KOSS: your words, your photos, your page, no charge.

Tell us about your organization on our contact page and we will take it from there.