New Website Launch: Friends of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument

Welcome to the website (cascadesiskiyou.org) of the Friends of Cascade Siskiyou National Monument! This monument is part of the National Conservation Lands system.

Web Page Home 2013: Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

We are collaborating with the BLM’s Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument staff to link to their digital resources about the Monument. While at the BLM website, you will also learn how they manage, preserve and protect the Monument and the Soda Mountain Wilderness area that lies within its boundaries. We appreciate our partners and affiliate organizations in this important work. Learn about their organizations and how we work together via those web links.
 
Look through the website and see what we offer and then share this link with others. We’ll be updating the information on a regular basis. Please contact us to support and/or volunteer. Best of all, you’ll meet other volunteer conservationists like yourself.

--Terry Dickey, Chair, Friends of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument

2013 National Public Lands Day: A Trail To Promote Meadow for Butterflies

Volunteers at the 2013 National Public Lands Day. 

Meadow restoration - 2013 National Public Lands Day. Joel Brumm photos

When you’re hiking at the the Hobart Bluff Trailhead, give a shout out of thanks to the volunteers and the Friends of the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument. They shoveled and moved a lot of dirt on our 2013 National Public Lands Day! BLM Recreation Planner Dennis Byrd inspired us with the day’s project: to construct a new section of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) to replace part of the trail that traversed a meadow and home to the rare Mardon Skipper butterfly. Volunteers restored the PCT at the Hobart Bluffs trailhead by breaking up the compacted old trail, adding new soil, seeding native grasses and planting shrubbery, and then spreading hay to protect the soil from erosion. New signage alerts hikers to the follow the detour so the old trail can revert to being part of the meadow habitat. We’ll celebrate the joys of our labor when the meadow is filled with butterflies!
     Working with great community volunteers not only made this job memorable, it also improved and protected an important butterfly habitat. Thanks to: Joel Brumm, Asa Cates, Wanda Chin, Marian Crumme, Terry  Dickey, John Galego, Justin Glasgow, Jed Holdorph, Duan Mallams, David McClarnon, Barb Morris, Jim Reiland, Kristi Reynolds, Peter Schroeder, and Ian Tally.
     Mark your calendar for next September when we’ll meet up for 2014 National Public Lands Day. For those of you who like get physical, it’s a great chance to meet new friends to work on a fun project at the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument.

--Terry Dickey, Chair, Friends of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument