SISKIYOU LAND TRUST

Siskiyou Land Trust is participating in a historic conservation collaborative with partners EcoTrust Forest Management (EFM) and Western Rivers Conservancy (WRC) on 40,000-acres of Scott River Headwaters forest in Northern California’s Mid-Klamath basin. This swath of forest makes up much of the Scott Valley viewshed where private timber lands abut Klamath and Shasta-Trinity forests.

The project areas are composed of four forest tracts , three of which are directly adjacent to wilderness areas (Marble Mountain Wilderness and Russian Wilderness), and one that are just downstream of the Trinty Alps Wilderness near Callahan. The forest includes a slice of the world’s most diverse conifer forest assemblage, 275 miles of headwaters stream, over 700 acres of alpine meadow, and several wilderness trailheads linking to the Pacific Crest Trail. This collective effort will help link 770,000-acres of designated alpine wilderness with 25,000 acres of conserved ranchlands in the Scott River val