Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
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| Location: | Oregon , United States | ||
| Specialty: | High biodiversity in diverse mountainous areas | ||
| Next city: | Medford | ||
| Surface: | 214.3 km² | ||
| Founding: | June 9, 2000 | ||
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The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is a nature reserve of the type of a national monument in the southwest of the US state of Oregon on the border with California . It was established in 2000 by President Bill Clinton in the transition between the Cascade Range and the Siskiyou Mountains to preserve the region's unusually high biodiversity . The reserve is under the administration of the Bureau of Land Management , an agency of the US Department of the Interior .
description
In the area that belongs to Jackson County and is about 45 kilometers southeast of Medford , plant and animal species, ecosystems and plant communities from the large ecosystems of the dry steppes of the Great Basin in the east, the rainforest of the temperate latitudes in the Siskiyou Mountains in the southwest and come together the high mountain character of the cascade chain in the north.
The transition zone between the two mountain ranges is also characterized by an unusually diverse geological profile. The Siskiyou Mountains contain both the oldest rocks in Oregon with an age of 425 million years as well as young volcanic rocks. Volcanic origin Pilot Rock , a stump from the volcanic vent solidified basalt after erosion exposed the volcanic mantle. Granite and plutonic rocks such as serpentine and other metamorphic rocks can be found in its environment .
National Monument including live more than 200 species of birds, great gray owl , spotted owl , pygmy nuthatch and peregrine falcon . In the field of springs Jenny Creek , a tributary of the Klamath River
Protection concept and conflicts
The approximately 215 km² protected lands (red on the map) are small-scale mixed with around 130 km² private lands (white on the map). This is partly owned by ranchers , partly by forestry and mining companies , but there are also a few privately settled properties. When the protected area was established, the existing grazing rights of private cattle farms in the country under federal property were confirmed.
A management plan was drawn up by spring 2005, but could not be adopted due to massive protests. The Bureau of Land Management had even taken all of the content of its website about the protected area offline for a year and a half. The differences were settled by summer 2008 and the plan was approved in August 2008.
The contradictions between the owners of private land and rights of use as well as the protected area concept were sparked by grazing rights, access rights to public land according to customary law, logging rights, and the handling of forest fires . While the landowners fear losing their property through fire, the nature conservation concepts of all protected areas under federal administration provide that naturally occurring forest fires (e.g. caused by lightning strikes) belong to the traditional forces of the ecosystem and are tolerated as long as they do not threaten buildings.
The core of the area around Soda Mountain and Hyatt Lake has also been designated as a Wilderness Area since March 2009 under the name Soda Mountain Wilderness , the strictest class of nature reserves in the United States. Through the reserve runs long-distance hiking the Pacific Crest Trail , a National Scenic Trail from Mexico to Canada.
Possible area reduction by President Trump
On April 26, 2017, President Trump ordered the United States Department of the Interior with Executive Order 13792 to review the area of the 27 National Monuments that were designated after January 1, 1996 and were at least 100,000 hectares in size. On August 24, Home Secretary Ryan Zinke presented the final report on Executive Order 13792 . The final report called for land reductions in the Bears Ears National Monument , Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, Gold Butte National Monument , Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument . In addition, more traditional human uses such as grazing, logging, coal mining and commercial fishing are to be allowed within the protected areas for all National Monuments examined. Zinke justified this with the fact that presidents had gone too far in restricting commercial activities in the National Monuments in recent decades.
Web links
- Bureau of Land Management: Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (official website )
- Wilderness.net: Soda Mountain Wilderness
- Presentation of the area and the conflicts from the perspective of cooperation between nature conservation organizations
- Jenny Creek Private Lands Coalition , an association of landowners who see their interests being harmed by the reserve
Individual evidence
- ↑ Executive Order 13792 of April 26, 2017 Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
- ↑ Final Report Summarizing findings of the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
- ↑ Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump Washington Post, September 17, 2017