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KOSS — Klamath Outdoor Science School

Offering statewide Outdoor School for 5th and 6th grade — immersive, hands-on science field trips for local Klamath Basin youth. KOSS serves place-based education to over 1,500 students each year, and its summer camps are supported by community donations to keep camp accessible regardless of ability to pay.

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Community Showcase · 5 updates · newest first

The KOSS Newsroom

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Every newsletter and news release KOSS sends out lives here in full — their words, their photos, a permanent address anyone can share. Klamath Living hosts the page; the reporting is theirs.

Klamath Tribes Elder Perry Chocktoot teaching flintknapping at KOSS Survival Skills CampKOSS campers learning archeryStudents nature journaling on a trail at Spence MountainA KOSS camper showing off her model of a great horned owl

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KOSS · Newsletter

KOSS Summer 2026 Newsletter

When planning our seasons of outdoor education, summer is always a bright spot, but comes with a number of unknowns. Will wildfire season start early? Will smoke force cancellations of summer field trips? Will it be so hot that campers dread going outside? Will our new summer…

August 11, 2026 17 photos
KOSS · Newsletter

KOSS Fall 2025 Newsletter

This year has provided a very different fall than we are used to here at Klamath Outdoor Science School. We have many successes to share, but it might be more important for us to shed some light on our recent hardships. Despite being a small non-profit organization, both the…

November 12, 2025 9 photos
KOSS · Newsletter

KOSS Summer 2025 Newsletter

What a wonderful summer it has been so far! Things are finally starting to slow down at KOSS after a busy season of outdoor school and summer camp programs. In early June we had all available staff travel over to Jackson county for one final large outdoor school group before…

August 21, 2025 19 photos
KOSS · News Release

KOSS 20th Anniversary

Klamath Outdoor Science School (KOSS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary of providing outdoor education to youth in the Klamath Basin and beyond! To commemorate this special time, KOSS is hosting a 20th anniversary celebration open to the public on June 14, 2025. This party…

May 18, 2025 3 photos
KOSS · Newsletter

Klamath Outdoor Science School - Winter 2025 Newsletter

While we can’t access our camp buildings during winter, we appreciate the snowpack and what it does for this basin. Just a short walk from camp, freshwater flows from the ground into the Wood River which feeds the watershed, ultimately leading to the ocean. We are thankful to be…

January 20, 2025 6 photos