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Conservation Policy Initiative
CASCADE-SISKIYOU NATIONAL MONUMENT MANAGEMENT POLICIES
Our policy efforts related to the monument include protecting individual species, groups of species and the natural ecosystem dynamics that have led to the rich diversity of plants, animals and habitat types exhibited in the monument. Particular areas of management policy focus have been on restoring areas damaged by roads, livestock, and past logging.
Over the past 120 years, land and water management activities have affected the federal lands that were designated as the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
The National Center summarized the research and recommendations from eight scientists with a thorough understanding of conditions within the monument, how those conditions interact with the plants, animals, habitats, and ecosystem dynamics of the areas, and what could be done in the future relative to each management activity to protect and restore the ecological integrity of the monument.
This report, “Protecting Objects of Scientific Interest in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Status, Threats and Management Recommendations," is being used by the National Center to evaluate BLM management plan objectives, including fire management, roads, livestock grazing, stream impoundments, mechanical thinning, and controlling non-native weeds.
In addition, a scientific synthesis report by Dominick Della Sala, Ph.D., and Brian Barr, M.S., entitled "Is Livestock Grazing Compatible with Protecting Objects of Biological Interest in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Southwest Oregon?" summarizing the results of our investigations recently was released.
