Organization Description:
          Siskiyou Project has worked to protect biodiversity in the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion of southwest Oregon and northwest California since our inception in 1983. We are the only grassroots group in the region focused solely on public lands in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area, a landscape of roughly 1,000,000 acres. Based in Grants Pass, Oregon, our long-term goal is to gain permanent legislative protection for the wild rivers, ancient forests, outstanding botanical diversity and native salmon of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area.

The Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area:
          The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area of southwest Oregon is a truly remarkable place. The area contains the largest remaining complex of wilderness and unprotected roadless areas between Canada and Baja California, and is home to five Wild and Scenic Rivers and nine candidate rivers.

          The Siskiyou Wild Rivers area is also known for its outstanding botanical diversity – home to 400 sensitive or endangered species, 28 species of conifers and approximately 100 endemic plant species - and has been recognized as an Area of Global Botanical Significance by the World Conservation Union. Biodiversity is high as well – our rivers support healthy wild populations of salmon, steelhead, lamprey and sturgeon and our forests are home to a number of increasingly rare wildlife species.

          Despite the ecological attributes of the region, the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area faces numerous ongoing threats: logging in old growth forests, damage from mining operations, erosion and sedimentation of salmon-bearing streams from an aging road system, and the destruction of rare plant habitats by off-road vehicles.

          Siskiyou Project believes that the best way to achieve robust, cohesive protection for the wild rivers, wild forests, wild fish and wildflowers of the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area is to promote legislation that will create a Siskiyou Wild Rivers National Salmon and Botanical Area. Your support will help Siskiyou Project to reach this goal.

People:
          With three full-time and three part-time staff, the Siskiyou Project relies on membership support to accomplish its goals. Our members receive action alerts, our quarterly newsletter: The Voice of the Wild Siskiyou, and periodic email updates.