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The Bureau of Land Management today issued its approved resource management plan and Record of Decision for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which will guide management of the monument’s 113,500 acres in southwestern Oregon to protect its biodiversity and important historic resources while providing for public access and recreational opportunities.

Matt Witt publishes ‘Monumental Beauty’ at a time of concern that gains in the federal protection of public lands might be at risk. 

For Matt Witt, the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is more — far more — than a place on map. For Witt it’s a place to immerse himself in nature, to appreciate and experience its incredible diversity.

The federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the monument, finalized a new resource management plan in early January that outlines how the government will take care of the over 100,000 acres of breathtaking landscape.

The Oregon Department of Transportation is receiving a $33 million federal grant to built the Mariposa Preserve Wildlife crossing through the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The wildlife crossing will be one of the largest in the country when built. 

Do you want to spend two weeks creating art surrounded by the breathtaking landscapes of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument? The Bureau of Land Management invites artists to apply for the annual Artist-in-Residence program. The selected artist receives a one- to two-week residency at CSNM in the month of June.

Seven years ago, three groups separately sued the federal government over the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument: Murphy Company, an Oregon-based timber company; the Association of O&C Counties, a group advocating for timber management; and the American Forest Resource Council, an advocacy group for the timber industry. The AFRC and AOCC lawsuits were later consolidated.

A $33.2 million federal grant will allow the Oregon Department of Transportation to build the state’s first wildlife overcrossing over Interstate 5 in southern Oregon’s Cascade Siskiyou National Monument. It’s also the first such crossing for the entire stretch of I-5 between Mexico and Canada.

Oregon has received $33 million in federal funding to construct the state’s first wildlife overpass over Interstate 5.

Overpass construction will span the northbound and southbound lanes just north of the Oregon-California state line, within the Mariposa Reserve of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, to help reduce vehicle-wildlife collisions, according to the Oregon Department of Transportation.

A proposed Resource Management Plan for the management and protection of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument has been put out by the Bureau of Land Management.

The RMP’s underlying purpose is to provide a management framework, including objectives and management direction, that guides BLM to protect and restore the resources, objects and values for which the area is designated over the next 20 years.