SPRING 1998 Wonders of the Klamath-Siskiyou by Art R. Kruckeberg and Frank A. Lang
I n This Issue: ew places in North America offer the physi and Marble Mountains to the Trinity Mountains in the cal and biological complexity of the Klamath south. Siskiyou Bioregion. It is one of those places on The Klamath Mountains are a patchwork offolded, Wonders F our planet that can evoke wonder, reverence, and un faulted, intruded, and metamorphosed rocks. Pieces of 2 Inside the ending curiosity among all who delight in the natural continents that drifted along with the movement of Siskiyou world. Nowhere is such a tectonic plates were pushed, Project rich display of landforms, · shoved, squeezed, and heated . .geology , and an indigenous, Continental and oceanic plates 3 Network News richly endemic plant life collided and in the process, the 5 Tour more grandly displayed in oceanic plate was subducted 6 George's the American West. Its rich beneath the continent. The Rough Ready ness, both in all branches of seafloor was scraped off upon Creek Hike natural science and in major the continental face like frost economic mineral and tim ing on a knife dragged across 8 NICORE Map ber resources, has come to a chocolate cake as the rest of I 0 Siskiyou Field provoke the ultimate ques the oceanic plate slid below to Institute 1998 tion: How to preserve this melt and rise through the con bioregion and all its distinc I I Spring Hikes tinental crust as the volcanoes tive ecosystems - in the face of the Cascade Mountain 14 Non-violence of ongoing resource extrac range. Training for tion and other human in The result is a richly em Peace Officers cursions? bellished landscape of many Not everyone knows of geological formations. Gran the Klamath Mountains. ites, diorite, sandstone, gab South of the Coast Range bro, and ultramafic rocks are in Oregon, north of the the important mountain Coast Range in California, forming rocks with limestone, and west of the Cascades, shale, chert, and Quaterary al the ancient Klamath Moun luvium adding to the variety. tains extend over 11 ,800 The oceanic floor makes a square miles from Oregon different kind of bedrock Darlingtonia californica, or the cobra or south into northwestern pitcher plant, is an insect-trapping bog plant which makes an unusual kind California. The Klamath with large erect hollow beaker-like leaves to of soil, a soil high in metals Mountains consist of a se lure insects into its beakers. These beakers such as iron, magnesium, ries of lesser, but still im excrete digestive fluids which dissolve the nickel, chromium and cobalt trapped insects, and its nutrients are absorbed pressive. mountain ranges by the plant. It grows in wet habitats. and low in calcium. These ser from the Siskiyous in the Currently, it is classified as an endangered pentine soils make growth north through the Salmon sp ecies. Photo by Sandy londs"4k - Wi/,J Earth !mates ... continued on page 12 Spring 1998 Page I Voice of the Wild Siski):::OU is the quarterly newsletter of the Inside the Siskiyou Project Siskiyou Regional Education Project P.O. Box 220 ,.....-Che Siskiyou Project office is buzzing well as the board of Wild Earth magazine. Cave Junction, Oregon 97523 .J. with activity. We have distributed almost He is an Oregon native who now makes his ph: (541)592-4459 fax: (541)592-2653 650 NICORE videos so far! I like to think home in the foothills of the Coast Range near email: [email protected] about the ripple effect from so many videos McMinnville with his partner, Carol Jones. www.siskiyou.org going out across the country. David teaches political science at Portland editing & production: Cathy Hocker The month of February was a short but State University and has been involved in art: Bob Crtmmins very intense experience for our staff and vol grassroots conservation work for two decades. photos: john Erwin, Lou Gold. Sandy Lonsdale, George Shook unteers. We mailed the Rough & Ready ac We are enjoying the process of reading tion alert, the Siskiyou Field Institute bro your returned surveys. Thank you for the Why a Siskiyou Project? chure, our first batch of network renewal re valuable feedback and good suggestions. We wt art a unique national network providing an effective grassroots voice for the globally outstanding quests, the Oregon Caves action alert, the sure enjoy hearing from you and often read Klamath-Siskiyou Biortgion. wt combine science, Deer Mom timber sale action alert and re your letters aloud at staff gatherings. This education and advocacy to promote harmonious modeled Lou's office. It was party, party, party helps to keep our spirits soaring. relationships between people and the land and to tkfind ecological integrity for the benefit offature (mailing party, that is). We are experimenting generations ofall species. We sure didn't do this with a new format that uti alone! It helps to have lizes a web press for this Whats so special about the Siskiyou Mountains? outstanding community newsletter and welcome The Siskiyou Mountains ofsouthwest Oregon and support. Fortunately, we your feedback. This issue is northwest California have the largest concentration find that kind of support printed on recycled paper, ofWild & Scenic rivers in the nation. The largest remaining unprotected roadless fomts on the wtst from local activists and not kenaf. Survey respon Coast are found hert, and this region is volunteers like Kathryn dents affirmed our internationally rtcognized for its geological and Roll, Vicki and Mike committment to tree-free botanical diversity. Rummel, Roxy Sincerny, and recycled paper. Dog, Mark Kelz, Ron In looking ahead to Raven, Rachel good weather, we have an This newsletter was printed at Apple Pms in Grants Goodman, Bill Gray, impressive list of hikes that Pass, Oregon on recycled paper. Lydia, Debbie Lukas, Barry Snitkin has put to Siskiyou Project Board: Firefly, Amy, Jacob gether starting on page 11 . Jim Gurley, president Lukas, Elijah, Bruce Marsh, Steve Stock, Erik Jules and Jennifer Seigle have as Jennifer Beige!, vice president Laurie Prouty, Miquelo Kime, Paco sembled a fine list of course offerings for the Steve Marsden, secrerary & treasurer Romain Cooper Despacio, Christy Dunn, Beth Meadows, Siskiyou Field Institute, page 10. David Johns Joya Feltzin and Shelly Heon, and we wish We are looking for volunteers and interns Evelyn Raether Dave Willis to sing your praises. to take surveys and give information at a few A big thank you goes out to the volun selected trailheads and other places in the re Siskiyou Project Staff: teer efforts Kerry Holman and Dave Hocker gion this summer. Contact us if you're inter Kclpie Wilson, executive director Cathy Hocker, administrative director Together they have transformed Lou's office ested in such work. Steve Marsden, program director from a postage stamp into a functional space. We began production of a new hour-long Barbara Ullian, conservation director Debbie Lukas merits special appreciation video that features the region. Our hope is Barry Snitkin, community outreach Rich Nawa, senior ecologist for her tireless efforts on behalf of Rough & that it will air on public television. Marjorie Reynolds, mail processing & database Ready Creek. Debbie has been touring with Barbara Ullian is featured in the May/ Lou Gold, storyteller a slideshow about NICORE together with June edition of the NationalWildlife Maga Kindi Fahrnkopf, office assistant 1 Linda Serrano, development assistant Sandy Lonsdale, whose wildflower pictures zine in the section called American Heroes. Jennifer Beige! and Erik Jules, were donated to grace this newsletter. Hoo The article by Kathie Durbin celebrates the conference co-coordinators ray for activists like Debbie. love of place, hard work and artistic qualities
The by; We expand a little bit more to welcome that we have appreciated in Barbara for many YOU - our network, our newest board member, David Johns. years. YOU - our volunteers, and David brings a deep understanding of the Happy Spring Equinox. Carpenter Foundation, The Mountaineers, work that we do, having been a co-founder Raynier Institute & Foundation, Illinois Valley of The Wildlands Project. He has earned Community Response Team I and Anonymous. valuable experience serving on that board, as
Page 2 voice ofthe Wild Siskiyou NICORE Date NETWORK NEWS Extended • May 1s
NICORE Strip Mine Your letters are making a difference. 20510. Ask them to request that the Kla CommentDeadline Contact us about ordering our 10 minute math National Forest not log the Jefferson Extended video on Rough & Ready Creek, or having timber sale in our roadless areas. Lou Gold come to your area to give his ""T'1he comment period for the NICORE inspirational slideshow. Who Will Save the .l mining project in the wild Rough & Mighty Steelhead? Ready Creek watershed has been extended Proposed Logging to May 15th. NICO RE is proposing to strip to Clearcut n March 13th, after years of delaying away the unusual laterite soils at four sepa Roadless Area Otacics and political maneuvering, the rate pit sites located in the unprotected wil NationalMarine Fisheries Service (NMFS) derness of the South Kalmiopsis roadless ""T'1he Klamath National Forest has pro announced they would not protect the Kla area. As part of the proposal NI CORE wants .l posed logging hundreds of acres of un math-Siskiyou steelhead under the Endan to build some 14 miles of road with 16 cross protected wilderness in and around the gered Species Act. ings of Rough & Ready Creek, a candidate Siskiyou Roadless Area. In some areas Steelhead are powerful fish that spend Wild & Scenic River, so that stripped soil clearcutting is proposed, right up to the their first few years of life in mountain can be trucked to a stockpile site. This boundary of existing Wilderness. creeks and rivers before swimming to the site is located on an Area of Critical Envi Called the Jefferson timber sale, it comes Pacific Ocean. When they return from the ronmental Concern. on the heals of an announcement by For sea to spawn, they are a shining steel color The miner says all this is so he can pro est Service Chief Mike Dombeck to seek a much prized by fisherman for their fight duce "stainless steel'', although he refuses to road building moratorium in roadless areas ing strength as well as beauty. Though there disclose exactly how this magical process will on some National Forests, but not the Kla is no doubt that these magnificent fish are be accomplished, or where it will occur. math. Seeing their chance to level even more in steep decline, government burearacrats Most of Rough & Ready Creek watershed ancient forests and wilderness, the Forest and state politicians have decided it's easier is withdrawn from logging, and the lower Service has proposed several roadless area to do nothing than to deal with the special ponion of the watershed is a designated Bo timber sales on the Klamath. interest groups that continue to point fin tanical Area because of the high concentration The Klamath National Forest is particu gers at one another. of rare plants. So while logging would never larly notorious for some of the worst ex The fisherman blame the seals, the tim . be considered in this place, thanks to the 1872 amples of logging on public land. ber industry blames the fisherman, the irri Mining Law, which ordains mining as an ab WHAT YOU CAN DO: Send a letter ga tors who suck the creeks dry blame solute right on our public land, this unique protesting this senseless destruction of high theweather. State Fish & Game wild land is in jeopardy. elevation ancient forest to: Departmentofficials try to crank out ore Guess who gets to pay $150,000 for the Supervisor Barbara Holder, Klamath hatchery fishso they can say there is no analysis of this mining project, and the meter National Forest, 1312 Fairlane Road, Yreka problem. Then it's okay to allow more habi is still running? The taxpayer. On top of CA96097. tat destruction by the timber industry and that, the miner has filed a patent for 4,360 Points to raise: High elevation forest irrigators. acres, which, if it goes forward will result logging is unjustifiable, these areas do not When the Siskiyou Project first peti in the miner making this public land his grow back as evidenced by old logging tioned for protection of the steelhead in private land for only $2.50 an acre! Can you cuts in the area. Habitat for old growth 1992, we were asking those charged with say ripoff? dependent species, such as spotted owls, protecting the steelhead's future to do their WHAT'S UP NEXT: With this extended wolverines, and fishers will be permanently duty. Sadly, that did not happen. Political comment period, more of the public will lost.The watershed suffered tremendous rhetoric has now been substituted for ac have the chance to get involved in pro storm damage from winter storms in 1997, tion. tecting one of the most diverse forest lands and no new roads should be built. WHAT'S UP NEXT: We would fail the in North America. Get out the word and Also send letters to California Senators steelhead and your trust in us to walk away write those comments. Make sure to send Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, from this now. The Siskiyou Project intends a copy to your Congressman and Senators. United States Senate, Washington, DC continued next page ...
Spring 1998 Page3 MORE NETWORK NEWS to explore all possibilities to bring back the This is the real eco-terrorism, and it's perma Forest Service recently proposed a modest road wild steelhead. Wherever that road may take nently stealing from our national heritage ev building moratorium for roadless areas in a us, we will need your support. eryday! few National Forests, the industry lashed out. At an press conference called by leading mem Leave the Driving to Me Your Deforestation Taxes bers of the chainsaw gang Rep. Don Young at Work (R-AK) threatened the Forest Service with n January, the Forest Service granted the substantial budget cuts unless they managed Iowner of a patented mining claim the n 1996, the U.S. Forest Service timber sales the forest as the Congress sees fit. "We'll just right to drive through the Kalmiopsis Wil Iprogram operated at a net loss of $791 keep cutting their budget, squeeze, until they derness. The 60 acres of property in ques million based on the Forest Service's own finally squeal," said Young. tion was taken from the public for the grand figures. This despite selling almost four bil But champions of the forest are fighting total of $150.00! This is due to the special lion board feet of the public's forest. back. In a move to protect what habitat re rights to miners provisions of the 1872 Min And why, you may ask, does the gov mains on National Forests and other federal ing Law. While visitors to the Wilderness ernment continue to subsidize the timber public lands, Reps. Cynthia McKinney (D will be using their feet or riding horses to industry at the expense of salmon, wild GA) and Jim Leach (R-IA) have introduced explore the wild country, methods of travel life, clean water, and our wild ancient for the National Forest Protection and Restora commonly employed 125 years ago when est heritage? A recent study by Common tion Act (NFPRA) into Congress. The bill this law was enacted, the owner and his Cause shed some light on this question. will end the timber sales program on National friends will be motoring about your "pro They found that the timber industry lobby Forests, Bureau of Land Management lands, tected" Wilderness. This 'special driving group, American Forest and Paper Asso and National Wildlife Refuges nationwide, privilege .:w-as paid fQr: j>y the ciation, and its corporate members, have phasing it out over two years. It will also cost ·$50,000 to prepare the analysis that given more than $8 million in political con redirect timber subsidies into worker retrain resulted in this travesty. The decision was tributions since 1991 and "have pocketed ing, ecological restoration (with a hiring pref to ailow vehicle June through more than $100 million in discounts from erence for dislocated timber workers), and defi October. · the federal government on timber they cut cit reduction. On the Senate side all U.S. Sena But even before the decision was out of the public's forests." tors are being asked by Sen. Richard Bryan (D sued, the owner of what was once our One example of how the timber indus NV) to sign a letter endorsing stronger ad public land was making new plans. Last try buys this representation was last year's ministrative protection of roadless areas. Sen. year he claimed he needed access to build battle to cut back the subsidies given to Bryan, who championed efforts to cut subsi a resort for the handicapped. In documents the industry to build logging roads. After dies for logging roads last year, is circulating a obtained by the Siskiyou Project under the winning some cutbacks in this corporate letter to President Clinton in support of a Freedom of Information Act the mining welfare program in the House of Repre stronger roadbuilding moratorium that would claim owner now says he wants to log the sentatives, and losing by only one vote in include all roadless areas on the National For place and dig exploratory mining pits. In a the Senate, the issue went to a conference ests. The letter calls for no logging or separate letter, sent by his attorney, he asked between House and Senate representatives. roadbuilding in inventoried roadless areas the Forest Service not to issue a decision There it was to be finally resolved. What without exception; an independent scientific granting the proposed level of use appar came out of that conference was a 1998 assessment to document and protect roadless ently because it would not satisfy the own budget approved by Congress that not only areas of 1,000 acres or greater; and review of ers need to take logging trucks and heavy preserves road building subsidies, but elimi proposed timber sales and road construction mining equipment into the Wilderness. The nated a $50 million cap on how much the projects to assure they do not affect roadless attorney also requested an application for US Forest Service may give in timber cred areas. a new special use permit. The cost of plan its to logging companies. Take time to thank those honorable ning further degradation of our protected What happened? The House and Sen members who are fighting for our National Wilderness will! again be paid by taxpay ate representatives that met to settle the Forests, they are swimming against a tide ers. issue were some of the biggest recipents of special interest money. Find out where DO THIS: Send a letter to your of timber industry money in all of Congress. your Representatives to Congress stand on Congressperson and Senators protesting the Leading the way was Rep. Norm Dicks (D these important issues . • continued abuses of the 1872 Mining Law. WA) and Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID). This year Use this as one example and urge them to we are getting more of the same from some act today to repeal this outrageous law. of big timbers leading puppets. When the
Page 4 \-0iu ofthe Wild Siskiyou Salmon and Rare Plants Can't Write Letters Only YOU Can Save Rough & Ready '-Vfe urgently need a massive number of cials . to pay attention. The same W letters from all over the country to stop grassroots energy that made the Ancient the NI CORE Mine, proposed in the middle Forests a national issue can stop the DO LETIERS REALLY COUNT? of the world class Rough & Ready Botanical NICORE mine and help end public I.and Area. The NICORE Mining Proposal is a ripoffs under the 1872 Mining Act. YES! Here's what the Siskiyou Project perfect example of the outrageousness of the Please mail your letters to: achieved with the help of your letters: 1872 Mining Act. For some time now, there {; 1987: 10,000 letters were gathered has been an outcry against this archaic law Siskiyou Project t, I, asking that the Siskiyou National Forest which allows individuals to convert mining PO Box220 be considered for National Park status. claims on public land into private property for Cave Junction OR97523 The Forest Service reponded by reduc ing the annual volume of timber cut and the ridiculous price of only $2.50 per acre! setting aside many sensitive areas. Please make copies of the letter inserted into this newsletter and circulate them amoung 1988: Following the great Silver Fire your friends or within your school, church and another outpouring of letters stopped the community groups. Many of our networkers proposed extention of the Bald Mountain Road and produced the most ecologi will be gathering signatures at Earthday events cally sensitive fire salvage operation ever across the country. Even if you can gather conducted by the Forest Service. only a few, please know that letters from dis tant places really count. 1993: The Siskiyou Project network Please mail the letters back to us by generated more than ten percent of all the letters received nationally on Presi May 1st so our advocates can personally dent Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan. This deliver them to the Forest Service by May resulted in the Siskiyou being the ONLY 15th, the date the comment period on In 1993 Lou Gold delivered thousands of' Natonal Forest to receve additional pro letters gathered by YOU to the White House. NICORE officicially ends. These letters resulted in 100, 000 more acrrs tection - to the tune of 100,000 more Your letters provide the kind of po acres of Ancient Forest reserves. of Ancient Forest Reserves for the Siskiyou litical credentials that cause public offi- National Forest.
ou just returned from a highly suc-cessful willing to convert their enthusiasm for Lou's particularly interested in venues that reach be Ltour of our local bioregion. His newly show into immediate action for the Siskiyous yond the conventional choir of those who are revised slideshow is greatly expanded and up and support for the work of the Siskiyou already environmentally active. Lou's show is dated. Lou refers to it as his Ancient Forest Project. very effective with church groups, business or mini-series. The new show literally sings the An especially important showing was ganizations and the more conservative ele spirit of our places and weaves fifteen years of given in early March in Ashland, Oregon. ments of our communities. It seems to pro forest activism into an inspiring story of the There Lou faced his largest local crowd vide a major bridge across ideological chasms healing power of folks working to safeguard ever and was particularly "in the spirit" of all kinds and gets everyone thinking about the gift of Creation. Lou says that in the early on that evening. Fortunuately, a three the future of our public lands. years of touring he thought of it as his camera video crew captured the whole For more information and promo slideshow. Later, he learned that the show owns event. So we're on our way to produc tional material on Lou's tour, please con him. Now he just follows the slides around ing a new video which will be called sult our website at http:// the country. "Lessons From the Ancient Forest: Heal www.siskiyou.org. To arrange an event The audience response has been tremen ing Ourselves and Mother Earth". It in your community, consult Lou directly dous. Turnouts generally exceed expectations should be ready for distribution by late at [email protected]. Or call Lou at and Lou often faces standing room only summer. Stay tuned for futher details. the Siskiyou Project (541) 592-4459.• crowds. And judging from the outpouring Lou is presently accepting tour re ofSave Rough & Ready Creek letters, folks are quests for late spring and beyond. He is
Spring 1998 Page5 Journey to the Center of t he
tary of Rough and Ready Creek is known steeply up the slope to the top of the ridge, ' to locals as Alberg Creek, named after a but we choose to follow Alberg's original colorful figure our of the past, miner Fred trail which continues up the creek a Alberg, whose labors of 50 years ago of hundred yards before switching back to we will be seeing further up the trail. gradually climb the same slope at a more As we make our way up the eroded modest grade. Sidehilling around to the dozer road, we find ourselves in a nar south for a half mile is a unique road row steep sided valley seemingly con sisting of a hand-built mortarless rock wall sisting of desert turned on edge, lend six to ten feet high, filled up-slope with ,• ing a certain piquancy to the sparse veg more rock, basically intact after 50 years etation apparently struggling to survive with no maintenance. This road, ·repre-
in this stark landscape. Actually, although senting an immense investment of hand many of the grow very slowly, labor, is constructed entirely of "fill" with the eons of evolution have equipped them no disturbance of the natural slope, the ' George Shook in a N. Fork Rough & Ready Creek darlingtonia bog. quite well for this habitat. Their special original drainage system left intact to per adaptations to the serpentine environment colate through the built up road. At a point have relieved them from competition with where the 1970' s dozer road tears right pretty presumptious sounding through the 1940' s Alberg title, you say? Perhaps not. The road, we are given a graphic A massif that is Josephine Moun contrast between respectful tain forms the heart of the largest con craftsmanship and unmiti tiguous mass of ultramafic rock in the gated greed. western hemisphere. So, the "serpen By following the Alberg tine syndrome" described in this publi road out to the point of this cation by Kruckeberg and Lang is pre finger ridge, we are re sented here with a vengeance. Quite warded with a view of the simply, it's a fascinating place in which entire lower Rough and to get lost for a while. Let's throw our Ready Creek drainage, as packs in the c.ar and head down High well as the opposite serpen 199 in southwestern Oregon. tine ridge between the creek · To reach our trailhead, we turn west Wading across Rough & Ready Creek .. and O"Brien, the entire area at the small Yillage of O'Brien onto Lone of which is threatened with Mountain Road, right on Naue Way, and the large lush vegetation of less severe sites. extensive mining under a proposal for the left on .the dirt road at its end until we Clearly dominating the stream area are NICORE mine, currently being facilitated come to a gate in the road. On foot the silvery columns of Port Orford cedars by the US Forest Service. our packs on our backs, we hike (POC), with a specialized root structure per After an abrupt right turn and a mile to the bank of Rough and Ready Creek, mitting them to thrive in very moist condi and a half climb north along this finger about 5/8 mile. At this point, stripping tions. A long-lived species, the POC serves ridge, we reach the main Josephine pla down to shorts, we wade the creek, a as a major component of stream structure, teau shortly after rejoining the main dozer broad expanse cobbled with the redrock with both living roots and downed logs road. Here boulders which define the ecology of forming mini-dams which regulate water we are ma this area. flow and create small pools benefitting sculpture Climbing the opposite bank, giving many aquatic plants and animals. garden of a passing nod to the large white blos About a mile and a half up Alberg Creek "buckskin soms of Howell's mariposa lily, a plant we come abruptly upon a spectre from the boulders," endemic to this environment, we soon past, a small shack constructed of split ce large fan find ourselves on a rocky bulldozer path dar shakes six feet in length, a hasty but tasy forms which follows a small creek to the north. crafstman-like job. Just before the shack, of unal Howell's Mariposa Lily Unnamed on our USGS map, this tribu- the dozer road turns abruptly left to gouge tered peri-
Page 6 VtJite ofthe Wild Siskiyou Serpentine Universe By George Shook
lar serpen- the dc;nse n e forest,' 1s endemics. Fred's still in After about tact cabin, 3/4 mile, we built with reach an logs fit so other fork carefully as to with an old obviate the enameled need for sign indicat "chinking" ing left: between Alberg them. cabin, right: W - e Josephine choose to Buckskin boulders. Mountain. camp on the An old miner's handbuilt ca bin. As we fol- ridge above Alberg's mine, overlooking the low the trail pristine North Fork of Rough and Ready dotite rock, the basic stuff of the earth's to the cabin, the vegetation changes Creek, where the last glow of sunset brings mantle, carried here by the route of sub abruptly, presenting us with a dense conif into relief this timeless landscape. To the oceanic volcanism, followed by the colli erous forest of sugar pine, douglas fir and north lies Josephine Mountain, tomorrow's sion of oceanic and continental plates. The many other species, including an excep destination, where we will stay at a historic combination of this rock environment and tionally low elevation occurance of moun packers' camp, followed by two days of weathered Jeffrey pine gives the same s.tark tain hemlock. This fo;est occupies only rockhopping down the ten miles of the North zen mpress10n as Fork, encountering numerous darlingtonia Japanese land- bogs and choice swimming holes on our way scape drawings of back to life in that other world outside the the thirteenth cen redrock. I tury, liberating the mind from the im mediate present to wander for a time into the forever of evolutive process. From origin of rock to origin of ·trees lie millions of years; from origin of trees to origin of humans lie mil- Ancient Jeffrey pine. Photos by George Shook and Ke/pie Wilson lions of years. Here we are, all together, right now. about ten acres or so, and indicates an expo As we wander through this museum sure of non-serpentine rock. Occurring as it George Shook is an ex-forester and long-time Siskiyou activist. He is also of time, we reach a fork in the road where does in the midst of the redrock, it seems a sculptor and musician. Recently, the dozer trail veers off to the south particularly lush. Also, since metalbearing min George has been making cumulative . continue out another finger ridge to a- pro erals often occur at these sorts of geological impact maps of Siskiyou watersheds spective mining site. However, like the poet junctures, we are not surprised to come upon that show the effects of logging, min Frost, we choose the "less travelled" road a deep mine shaft, supported with handhewn ing and road building over time. This kind of mapping is something the land to the west where we come upon a cedar timbers, again the work of Fred Alberg. managing agencies have never done. Bolander's lily, one of our most spectacu- Nearby, where a sparkling spring seeps from
Spring 1998 Page 7 SITE MAP OF NICORE MINING PLAN OF OPERATIONS
Prepared by R.G. Coleman (2/25/98) © & modified after US Dept. Agriculture. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region Report# R6-J 1-065-97 124 °45' NICORE mining plan of operatrions, 1997
0 5 km
0 SCALE 5 miles Contour Interval 50 meters Base Map Taken from Grants Pass DLG Internet File from USGS I: 100,000 Laterite distribution form Ramp ( 1977) Oregon Dept. of Geo!. & Min. Ind. Misc. Paper 20
The Proposed NICORE Mine Would Disturb a 40 Million Year 01
Page8 Voice of the Wild Siskiyou Explanation
Illinois River Ranger District Bureau of Land Siskiyou National Forest Service G Management
Oregon State Park Land Oregon State Land D US Forest Service . . BLM Area of Critical Designated Botanical Area . Environmental Concern J LI].
Nickel-bearing laterite Potential nickel bearing laterite D Dr. Coleman lectures at last year's First Conference on Siskiyou Ecology held in J Transported laterite in terrace deposits Cave Junction, Oregon. Dr. Robert Coleman prepared this map as part of Mine Sites A, B, C .... Roads () his comments to the Forest Service on the NICO RE Stream Crossing Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Holocene Fault Below are some quotes from Dr. Coleman's com Laterite ore stockpile site ments:
On the possible duration of the proposed Rough and Ready Creek Flood Plain mining project beyond the 10 years analyzed
Recent alluvial sand and gravel in the DEIS: "According to Ramp (1978) the estimated Holocene alluvial deposits ore reserves at sites A, B, C & D is approximately 85 million tons (using a total of 445 acres of ore). Higher terrace alluvial deposits equivalent to Lano de Oro The report indicates approximately 3 .1 acres/year formed during the glacial will be mined over a ten year period which means stage (Wisconsin)-! 0,000 years ! approximately 60,000 tons per year assuming 50% of the excavated material is ore. About 30,000 tons would be transported to the stockpile each year. If the Ramp report values are correct, it is estimated that it would require 100 years to mine the ore in this area at this rate!"
On the location of the tailings pile: "Potential 50 or 100 year floods could de stroy the proposed ore stock pile and produce downstream pollution in the Illinois River." 20 On his interest in the area: i . o\.., i "I am a retired professor of geology at
...... _, _____ -- --·-r ... -- Stanford University and have worked as a Research 25 1 . 26 Fork I Geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey for ! 30 29 West more than 40 years ... My current interest involves using this area as a natural laboratory in a Geobo tanical Field School Prof. Art Kruckeberg of Uni versity of Washington and I will conduct this sum dscape of Unique and Rare Beauty. mer from the Sisk-Q-Meaadows Camp."
Spring 1998 June 12-19 1998
Coordinated by Siskiyou Regional Education Project. Siskiyou Field Institute is co-sponsored by Native Plant Society ofOregon, Southern Oregon University Biology Department and Oregon Caves National Monument. Major funding provided by Carpenter Foundation, Mountaineers and Illinois Valley Community Response Team MULTI-DAY COURSES ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS
Lichens of the Klamath Mountains, 7 days Ethnobotany: Native Plants and Folklore Steve Jessup John Roth
Geobotany of the Siskiyous, 6 days Introduction to Serpentine Ecology Robert Coleman and Art Kruckeberg Tom Jimerson
Nature Writing in the Siskiyous, 4 days Native Grasses andTheir Habitats in the David Rains Wallace Siskiyou Mountains Wayne Rolle Amphibians and Reptiles of the Siskiyous 3 days, Michael Parker, R. Bruce Bury Retaining Ecosystem Integrity Through ONE-DAY PROGRAMS FOR KIDS and Christopher Pearl Natual Selection David Baker and Orville Camp Birding the Western Siskiyous, 3 days The Wonders of Wetlands Linda Mullens and Michelle Gallas Romain Cooper, Pepper Trail and Botanizing the CrestTrail: Cook and Jim Rogers Green Pass Towards Lily Pad Lake Linda Ann Vorobik and Veva Stansell Creative Writing Nature Sketching, 3 days Jim Hutchins and Beth Franklin Frank Lang Native Seed Collection & Propagation Within the Forest Graig and Barbara Delbo! Salmon Biology & Stream Linda Mullens and Michelle Gallas Geomorphology, 3 days Botanizing the Bolan Lake/Peak Loop RichNawa Linda Ann Vorobik and Veva Stansell
Beginning Plant Identification, 3 days Oregon Caves Inside and Out Rhoda Love Roger Brandt
Wilderness First Aid, 3 days Staff of Wilderness Medicine Institute FOR A FULL BROCHURE: ONE-DAYTEACHERTRAININGS Introduction to Geology of the Siskiyous 3 days, John Roth Siskiyou Field Institute Amphibian MonitoringTraining cl o Siskiyou Project Fire Ecology of Southwestern Oregon Simon Wray P.O . Box220 2 days, Tom Atzet and Darren Borgias Cave Junction, OR 97523 Project Leaming Tree 541-592-4459 Conifers of the Siskiyous, 2 days Suzy Liebenberg, Denise Buck and Frank Callahan Debra Berg. Coordinato rs-. Jennifer Beige! & Erik Jules Stream Ecology From a Natural Dyeing with Lichens, 2 days email: [email protected] Macroinvertebrate Perspective Rachel Winters internet". www.siskiyou.org Diana Perez
Page 10 Vciice ofth e Wild Siskiyou SISKIYOU FIELD INSTITUTE SPRING HIKE SCHEDULE 1998 WEEKEND SCHEDULE Our offerings are interesting, informative, and fun! Call us at (541) 592-4459 for further information. FRIDAY JUNE 12 April 4 Limpy Creek Botanical Area Hike Easy one mile trail 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Courses and workshops with botanists Linda Mullens and Maria Ulloa to see early serpen 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. PLAY: Wolf at the Door $5-8 sliding scale, $3 kids, tine plants. Meet at the IV Visitors Center at 8 a.m. or at the Fred Illinois Valley High School Cafetorium Myers parking lot (Key Man) at 8:30 a.m. Bring water and snacks. Co 8:30 to11 :00 p.m. Social, Wild River Brewing Co. Cave Junction sponsored by Native Plant Society(NPS). SATURDAY JUNE 13 April 11 Rough & Ready/French Flat Wildflower Hike Enjoy 8:00 a.m. • 5:00 p.m. Courses and workshops early dryland serpentine plants, including rare ones, as you join 6:00 p.m. Social and silent auction, Illinois Valley Senior Center botanist Linda Mazzu for an easy hike. Meet at the IV Visitors Center 7:00 p.m. Banquet, Illinois Valley Senior Center, $7.50 at 9 a.m. Bring water and lunch. Co-sponsored by NPS. 8:30 p.m. Keynote Address, Dr. Ed Grumbine, Illinois Valley Senior April 12 In Search of Steelhead Take an easy streamside Center, free hike to observe spawning steelhead and their redds (gravel "nests" where the steelhead's eggs are buried) with ecologist Rich Nawa. SUNDAY JUNE 14 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Courses and workshops Steelhead life cycle and habitat needs will be explained. Wear high 4:00 to 10:00 p.m. Siskiyou Project Open House and Spaghetti top hiking shoes or waterproof boots, water and snacks. Meet at the Dinner, $5 next door at the Takilma Community Building. IV Visitors Center at 1 p.m. 7:00 p.m. Entertainment & music by the Bigfoot Faithful Band at April 18 Lower Table Rock Botanical Hike Enjoy spring the Takilma Community Building Beer & wine available. flowers and vernal pond vegetation including rare species as you walk through the spiritual gathering area of the Takelma Indians with botanists Barbara Mumblo & Don Heinz. Meet at the old K-Mart The Siskiyou Field Institute presents the parking lot in Medford at 8 a.m. Bring water and snacks. Co-spon acclaimed play: sored by NPS. April 18 Chetco Pass Frog Pond Hike Brave this strenuous, 1O+ miles long hike to Chetco Pass, then a bit further to a small mountain pond with Rich Nawa. Meet at the north side of Selma Market at 8 a.m. Bring water and lunch. April 25 Star Flat Hike Take an easy hike through a fragile serpentine botanical area with retired BLM botanist Don Heinz. You'll see wetland serpentine plants, including rare species. Meet at the Selma Market at 9 a.m. Bring water and snacks. Co-sponsored by NPS. April 26 Khoerry Creek Loop Experience a pristine Port Orford Cedar forest along a tributary of the East Fork Illinois River on a moderate (with some strenuous) 4 mile loop hike with ecologist Rich Nawa. Bring water and snacks. Meet at SREP office at 1 p.m .. April 26 London Peak Trail Venture through the most acces Wolf at the Door sible old growth on 1·5 with Boyd Peters. Begin with a 1\2 mile ridge top barrier free trail which crosses 4 distinct plant communities. An Anti-Apocalyptic This hike will be followed by an optional 2 mile hike down London Peak. Meet at the Wolf Creek Inn. at 12 noon. Bring water, snacks Musical Comedy: and a walking stick. Arguments Towards Real-World May 2 Allen Gulch Hike Explore Takilma's best kept naural secret ·- the birds, wildflowers and cool old growth forests of Allen Solutions Gulch with naturalist Bill Gray. Bring water and lunch. Meet at SREP office at 9:30 a.m. by Human Nature Theater Company May 3 Illinois River Trail Hike Hike the Illinois River trail to York Creek to see rare plants including the Kalmiopsis Leachiana June 12, 7:30 pm (which we hope to see blooming) with naturalist Steve Marsden and botanist Don Heinz. Meet at the Selma Market at 9 a.m. Co-spon Illinois Valley High School, sored by NPS. $5-$8 (sliding scale) $3 kids May 9 Return to Rough and Ready Experience the later drytand serpentine plants and rare wildflowers while you learn about The debate over our own future, like that over reintroducing wolves, the unique qualities of this botanical wonder1and with botanist Jenni rages throughout society with many constituents claiming absolute fer Biegel. Bring water and snacks. Meet at the IV Visitors Center at moral legitimacy amid invoking the spectre of apocalyptic 9 a.m. Co-sponsored by NPS. repercussions for ignoring their messages. Wolf at the Door is a three May 1O Draper Creek Hike Hike through part of the proposed person play that uses humor, song, dance and a powerful story to Deer Mom Timber Sale with ecoforester Orville Camp. Learn about point toward a liveable future where we are at home with the nature the differences between old growth forest and managed tree farms. in us and around us. Bring water and snacks. Meet at Selma Market at 1 p.m.Co sponsored by the Deer Creek Valley Natural Resources Con- servation Association. . .. continued on page 15
Spring 1998 Page 11 the southern storms bring warm rains. An great risk from another foreign threat, a dev nual precipitation may vary from over 78 inches astating root-rot. At higher elevations in the per year at higher summits to 7 inches per year mesic western Siskiyous impressive old in rain shadows. growth stands of POC still remain for the The Klamath Mountains have been in time being. place for eons and avoided major glaciation The Klamath-Siskiyou forests are not all during the last great ice age. They have seen conifers. the rise and fall of global warming and the Ever - migration to and fro of entire plant commu green nities. With all of their complexity, the Kla hard math Mountains and their smaller part, the woods Siskiyou Mountains, have provided habitat for mix Jib Art R. Kruckeberg was introduced to many different plants with many different re e r a 11 y the region in 1950. Fresh from the quirements. The plant life is rich in species with the plant life of southern California, he diversity, richer in many ways than the miner conifers was plunged into a whole new flora - bewildering and fascinating. With als that provide complexity for habitat and to form the eminent taxonomist, C. Leo economic gains for humans. a com Hitchcock, he compiled a Smith and Sawyer's 1988 study of north plex se comprehensive collection of the western California and southwestern Or nes of plant life along the West Fork of the Illinois River of the country east of egon discovered 281 plants that grow no plant Taki/ma to Bolan Peak. "Ever since where else in the world. communities. fyfany are members of the oak that introduction to the flora, I have One square mile in the Russian Peak family: golden chinquapin, tan oak, and can been lured back by the singular Wilderness in the Salmon Mountains is yon live oak. The madrone is a member of diversity of the region. As a home to 17 different conifers, a record sel the heath family. Its broad evergreen leaves, newcomer to the flora, just one handsome smooth red bark, clusters of creamy encounter with the eerie cobra-like dom rivaled on this planet or any other. In pitcher-leaves of Darlingtonia was the Siskiyou Mountains portion of the flowers, or masses of red berries, depending to make me a believer in miracles." bioregion the Bear Basin Butte Botanical on the time of year, always make it a welcome Area has 16 conifers within a 500 hectare sight. area. Botanists describe these places as "en The abundant serpentine exposures in riched stands." Thirty-one conifer species Klamath-Siskiyou country have their own ... 1 are native to the Klamath singular plant associations. Throughout the difficult for many plant Mountains. Some species, region a Jeffrey pine and grassland savan species. Special plants Douglas fir and incense cedar, nah commonly occurs on serpentine flats adapted for such a soil are common and widely dis and gentle slopes. Upslope to ridges, make for an unusual ser tributed. Others, such as sub serpentines are clothed with shrub com pentine plant life com alpine fir and Alaska yellow ce munities that include tan oak, the huckle- posed of species found dar reach their southern limits . ,berry oak and Brewer oak. On serpentine nowhere else on planet in craggy Klamath heights. exposures along barren ddge-tops, sparse, Earth. The vast extent of Foxtail pine has an odd distri prostrate patches of Siskiyou mat com ultramafic geology and bution split between the mingle with evergreen everlasting and the soils makes the Klamath southern Sierra Nevada many Siskiyou fritillaria to create the sere barren region unique in North ' miles to the south, and scat landscape so typical of the serpentine "syn America. tered populations in the Kia drome." The region is well "" math Mountains as far north, Nowhere is the "syndrome" better seen supplied with water. The as Lake Mountain above the than at Rough and Ready Botanical Way Klamath River extends Klamath River. Other species, side south of Cave Junction, Oregon in the from the Klamath Lake Brewer spruce and Port Orford Illinois Valley. These dry, barren looking basin to the east through the Cascade and Kla cedar are the Klamaths' own. serpentine flats look like a desert in late math Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. Just Port Orford cedar (POC) is at risk. Its summer, fall, and winter. In the spring and north of the Klamath, the north or south straight-grained fragrant wood is worth a for early summer these dry areas area riot of depending on the location of high pressure tune in Japan. Not only is it the only conifer color: pink, purple, lavender and blue from ridges and dips and wiggles of the jet stream. that can still be exported from federal lands to phlox, onions, rockcress and larkspurs. The northern storms bring snow and cold, foreign markets as whole logs, but POC is at Later, yellow wild buckwheat, and wall-
Page 12 VtJice ofthe Wild Siskiyou flowers dominate the scene. Many of these versity), and Morton Peck (Willamette Uni are rare, unusual species: more local serpen versity) were also attracted to the area. It seems tine endemics. like most of the western professional bota Yet of all serpentine habitats, the most nists of the later part of the 20th Century spectacular has to be the Oarlingtonia fen. have visited the region. Seedsmen and nurs These wetlands are dominated by various erymen, wildflower enthusiasts of all types, sedges, rushes and grasses, and the insectivo rock gardeners, photographers, and artists have rous pitcher plant. Western azalea with its all been drawn to this place. mass s of cream and peach colored, heavenly Pioneering plant ecologist Robert scented.flowers surround the wetlands along Whittaker also visited the area.His studies with Calif0rnia lady-slippers and Vollmer's lily. of the vegetation of the Siskiyous brought Other members of the include world-wide attention to the region. yellow California coneflower, California bog Whittaker first pointed out the botanical aspildel, the bright blue Waldo (Mendocino) richness of the area and compared it with gentian and white and purple large flowered the southern Appalachians in floral diver Frank A. Lang arrived at Southern rush1lilies. These species are limited to the wet sity and species richness. He credited the Oregon College in the fall of 1966 land seeps along the west side of the Illinois Klamath-Siskiyou Region as having "cen to teach botany and never found a Valley, Jo$ephip.e Creek and around Eight tral significance" for the floristic origins good reason to leave. Every class Dollar Mountain. "They are found there and and diversity of Pacific Northwest floras. field trip was an adventure with endless plants to find and study. A nowhere else on Earth. Rare indeed. Probably nowhere else in the West do we visit to the Darlingtonia fens, no The botanical riches of the Klamath find abundant endemic conifers, a host of matter what the season of the year, Mountains brought botanists to collect and woody angio-sperms and a diverse array resulted in always finding study the many new and unusual species of endemic herbs. something interesting to see. "One of the bioregion. Thomas Jefferson Howell, The Klamath-Siskiyou Bioregion of the great pleasures of teaching plant systematics and ecology a self-taught botanist, made three major col abounds in a diversity of animal life. Much under such circumstances is the lecting trips to the Illinois Valley in the 1870s is known about the vertebrate fauna. All look of amazement on students' where he discovered many species new to major classes of mammalian vertebrates are faces. I have felt quite blessed to science. Another, later botanical visitor was well represented from insectivores to car have had the good fortune to Lilla Leach, who with her husband John nivores, even to primates, if you believe that spend most of a career working in one of the great botanical areas of explored the region between 1928 and Sasquatch walks the Earth. The Siskiyou the world." 1938. In 1930, Lilla discovered a small pink wildlands are the source of many Sasquatch flowered shrub that turned out to be a new tales. Other vertebrates, birds, reptiles, am endemic genus, Kalmiopsis Leachiana, a re phibians, and fishes figure prominently in markable discovery. most of the region's ecosystems. Most are for profit. Minerals are where the rare endemic Another early 20th Century visitor was common and widespread. wildflowers grow. How to deal with this con Alice Eastwood of the California Academy Ironically, the very feature that helps make flict is one of the many environmental dilem of Sciences the region a mas of our times. who walked botanical To many people the biological signifi from Cres Eldorado, cance of the region and its beauty outweigh cent City to its mineral any short term destructive, consumptive Waldo in the riches, also benefits that might be derived from min Illinois Val creates a ma eral or timber extraction. The biologically ley so as not jor conser significant portions of the area should be to miss the vation con- set aside as preserves or parks and man manzanita aged for their biological values. Ifdestroyed, species de the region will never recover and these won scribed by ders of creation will be lost forever. Howell. The stage coach the area in ran at night. the 1850's in Editors Note: This is an edited version of the Charles Vancouver Piper (Washington a never ending quest for gold. Gold is still Introduction from the publication: State University),LouisHenderson(University sought today, but so is nickel, chromium and Proceedingr of the First Conference on of Oregon), Elmer Applegate (Stanford Uni- cobalt. Humans want to mine the minerals Siskiyou Ecology. 1997.
Spring 1998 Page 13 Non-Violence Training for Peace Keepers An idea whose time has come.
he problem with being a and responses in a non-violent cop is that you usually see demonstration. Tpeople at their worst. Those 'The training was an eye that you deal with have either hurt opener on both ends. We always other people, stolen from them, or need to know where we are com have been in some way self-abusive. ing from. It was interesting to This inevitably affects the way that hear about the history (of non you feel about people and the hu violence and civil disobedence). man condition in general. People Cooperation between both engaged in non-violent protest ac groups is the important thing and tivities invite police attention. But, the training helped in that direc unlike the usual police "client," tion," commented Sgt. non-violent protestors exemplify Whitmire. people at their best. They are act Dot Fishersmith, an activist ing in a highly principled manner, from Ashland, Oregon said "I am they are expressing deeply felt deeply grateful for the opportu moral convictions, they are com The seven hour session culminated in a role play in which nity to have participated, as I the IRS was seizing the house of a prominent local mitted to improving society or the gained much deeper insight into person for tax evasion. The target of the attack rallied their environment. Very different than friends (played mostly by deputies) and created a the world of law enforcement. I a cop's normal fare. And it's not sur blockade to protect the house. Sheriffs (played largely by understand much better now prising that cops are sometimes activists) were dispatched to back up the IRS. The ensuing how we seem threatening to them baffled when called to police non CD saw the friends of the IRS victim sitting in and singing and I have more compassion for the civil rights era anthem, 'We shall overcome." The violent protests. Sworn to uphold their situation." food for thought generated by this role reversal will keep the law (whatever it may be) they both sides chewing for weeks to come. Doug Fir of Peace House simply lack a frame of reference to summed up the training: "But accomodate the concept of civil perhaps most importantly, activ disobedience. ists involved in forestry issues in This was the contex t within which to paniciapte in a non-violent action. the county and county Sheriffs created an un Marjorie Reynolds of the Siskiyou Project, en- When asked why she wanted to organize precedented dialogue with each other. As one listed several veteran non-violence preparers, the event, Marjorie Reynolds of the Siskiyou of the "out of town" trainers, I felt the event a handful and a half of activists and an equal Project said "This is an idea whose time has was significant in several respects. On the number of Josephine County Sheriff Depu- come. My friends in Humbolt County have one hand it gave the deputies a way to probe ties to participate in a unique training that been doing Police Trainings recently. I've and explore the motivations of protestors out exposed the officers to a similar kind of expe been wanting to do something like this so side of a demonstration situation. Some of rience that activis ts go through in preparing that when citizens participate in civil the Sheriffs were initially truly baffled at why disobediance, they will feel safe. My hope is people would deliberately place theselves in that by understanding more about non-vio an arrest scenario. As they became more in lence and the way it fits into the creation and volved in the training, they began to better maimainence of this country's freedom, we understand the kinds of forces, both moral could play out our roles without anger and and political, that move a person to deliber "" w1'th respect. " ately risk arrest for a higher purpose. By the ! Participants were guided by trainers same token, activists came away with a deeper Bonnie Blackberry, Doug Fir, Karen Wood view of the humanity of the cops that they <> and Robie Tenorio to explore the meaning of face across the line." • (and violence), they discussed
the function of civil disobedience in Ameri- M arjorie Reynolds holding baby, talking with Bonnie Blackberry. can and world history, and they acted in role plays which illustrated the various functions
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May 16 Eight Dollar MountalnlSerpentlne Hike Experience parking lot of Fish Hatchery Park at 9 a.m .. Bring hand lens, digging the unique geology and botany of $8 Mountain with National Park tool, clipboard, lunch and water. Co-sponsored by NPS. Service geologist John Roth. Bring water and snacks. Meet at the May 23 Rough and Ready Creek View the wildflowers and IV Visitors Center at 9 a.m. beauty of this incredible serpentine area near the proposed NICORE May 16 Grayback Mountain Trail Hike Join activist Evelyn mining project with naturalist Kathy Lombardo. Bring water and Raether to hike this 6 mile moderate to difficult (elevation gain lunch. Meet at the Rough and Ready Wayside at 11 a.m. 3,500 feet) trail In Williams, which originates in one of the "man May 24 Left Fork Sucker Creek Hike See how a primary agement areas" of the proposed Scattered Apples Timber Sale. (unlogged) Port Orford cedar forest provides homes for salmon and Experience pristine high elevation old growth forests, finishing steelhead as you hike 4 easy miles on a trail next to the Left Fork of near the Research Natural Area high on a ridge overlooking the Sucker Creek. Learn about the impacts of logging China Left with Applegate Valley. Discover why efforts are underway to complete ecologist Rich Nawa. Bring water and lunch. Meet at the IV Visitors this trail. We'll hike until we hit snow. Bring lunch, water and a Center at 9 a.m. compass. Meet at the Williams Store at 10 a.m. May 30 Roxy Ann Butte Hike Join Barbara Mumblo on an May 16 Golden Coyote Wetlands 10 am Tour a wetland dev easy hike to indentify and list plants for the Oregon Plant Atlas astated by mining which is now being rehabilitated. Easy hike with Project. Meet at McDonald's on Barnet Road in Medford (south exit Don Heinze. Bring water and snacks. Meet at the Wolf Creek Store of 1-5) at 1O a.m .. Bring water and lunch. Co-sponsored by NPS. at 10 a.m.. Co-sponsored by NPS. May 30 Polar Bear Gap Hike Hike the Siskiyou Wilderness May 17 Nature's Paradox: Effect of Landslides on Salmon with photographer Ron Raven. This 5 mile round trip hike can ex Take an auto tour of the '97 landslides in Siskiyou National Forest pand into other wild places nearby. Bring water and lunch. Meet at with ecologist Rich Nawa Learn to differentiate between mass and the SREP office at 10 a.m. surface erosion. Characteristics of several types of landslides will June 6 Bigelow Lakes Hike Experience the botanical wonders be described, and the short and long term effects on salmon will be of the Oregon Caves National Monument with geologist and Park discussed. Short and easy hikes will be taken at slide sites so Ranger John Roth. This 3 hour hike takes you to the surrounding wear hiking shoes. Bring water and lunch. Meet at the IV Visitors Siskiyou National Forest also. Bring water and lunch. Meet at Or Center at 9 a.m. egon Caves National Monument at 10 a.m. May 23 Grass and Grassland Workshop Learn about the June 28 Kerby Peak Hike Join local activist Carl Summers on natural history and historic significance of grasslands and grass a strenuous 6 mile round trip hike to a seldom visited unique alpine taxonomy with retired BLM botanist Don Heinze. An easy, slow vegetation area Bring walking stick and water. Meet at the Selma hike with many stops. Reservations are necessary so contact Don Market at 8 a.m. • at (541) 955-7247 [email protected]. Meet at the north side r------• I 0 Here's my $35. I would like the gift noted below: Why Should YOU Join I OThe Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace the Siskiyou Project Network? I O"Lessons From the Ancient Foresf' Lou Gold video I O "Rare Serpentine Flowers of the Siskiyous" wildflower he Siskiyou Project is a unique nationwide network pro poster I OThe Botanist and Her Muleskinner story of Lilah Leach viding a effective grassroots voice for the globally out ODo not send me a gift. randing Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion. We combine sci T 0 YES, I wish to join the Siskyou Project, but I'm living lightly ence, education and advocacy to promote harmonious relation and cannot afford $35 right now. Please accept my ships between people and the land and to defend ecological donation of $ and keep me informed. integrity for the benefit of future generations of all species. 0 I'm already a Siskiyou Project networker and I'd like to This is your invitation to join the Siskiyou Project. 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