A new quarterly
journal from the Siskiyou Field Institute in Cave Junction, Ore.,
devotes itself to “trees, rocks, critters, creeks, humans, snakes”
– the list goes on to include little-known but wonderfully named
species like “chalcedon checkerspots” and “hooded ladies tresses.”

All inhabit a landscape that ecologists call the
Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion. It includes the Pacific Coast of
southern Oregon and Northern California, and it extends east
through four mountain ranges that feature a slew of magnificent
pines. To spread the word about this special place, the institute
this fall published its first 22-page Mountains &
Rivers, A Quarterly Journal of Natural History for the
Klamath-Siskiyou Region. It is unabashedly ambitious.
Managing editor Evan Frost says his goal is to celebrate the region
and explore what makes it different and vulnerable. He welcomes
artwork, poetry, essays and reports.

A subscription is $16; write
Mountains & Rivers, c/o Siskiyou Field Institute, P.O. Box 220,
Cave Junction, OR 97523 (541/592-4459) or e-mail
institute@siskiyou.org

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A botanical El Dorado

by Betsy Marston, High Country News
December 4, 2000

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