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Organization Description
Siskiyou Project has been working to protect biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion of southwest Oregon and northwest California since our incorporation in 1983. Based near the rural community of Cave Junction with an office in Portland, our primary purpose is to gain permanent protection for the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area. The Siskiyou Wild River Area consists of 1.3 million acres of public land in SW Oregon. We use environmental education, science, conservation advocacy, and economics as tactics to achieve our goals. In 1998 Siskiyou Project organized the first conference on Klamath-Siskiyou Ecology and founded the Siskiyou Field Institute (SFI), an ecological field studies program for all ages and educational levels. SFI has grown to become it's own organization and can be found by visiting www.thesfi.org. Our current campaigns include protecting Siskiyou Wild Rivers from logging, mining, increasing and lawless off-highway vehicle use and other threats such as the introduction of invasive species. Our main goal is to help promote and create the Siskiyou Wild River National Conservation Area. Please join us today, click here to learn more about becoming a member!

Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area

The SISKIYOU WILD RIVERS AREA is one of the world's most botanically rich conifer forests. The region is renowned for its diversity of rare plants, many that exist nowhere else on earth. Containing the largest, unprotected wild area from the Olympics to Baja, the Siskiyou Wild Rivers is part of the larger Klamath-Siskiyou bio-region, which has been proposed as a World Heritage Site and UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Five National Wild & Scenic Rivers with nationally outstanding water quality and 9 more rivers eligible for protection give Siskiyou Wild Rivers it's name. Many of these rivers, home to endangered wild salmon, wind their way through the Kalmiopsis Wildlands - an ancient landscape of fire-sculpted forests and deep canyons. Please help Siskiyou Wild Rivers get the permanent protection it deserves.

People

With six full-time and two part-time staff, the Siskiyou Project relies on volunteer and member support to accomplish it's goals. Four of our staff members have been with us longer than five years. Our members receive action alerts, the color quarterly newsletter Voice of the Wild Siskiyou, email updates, and plenty of educational materials to go around. Many of our local and national supporters still remember Lou Gold's slideshows that inspired a generation to take action in support of our region. Our Portland based campaign coordinator Rolf Skar, inspired by Lou Gold's tireless advocacy, now leads the way in presenting the Siskiyou Wild Rivers slideshows to audiences across the west and lobbying officials in Washington D.C.