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 Priority Region: Rogue-Siskiyou Forests
Staff contacts: Southwest Oregon’s Rogue-Siskiyou Priority Region is renowned for its globally-significant biological diversity, its spectacular wild rivers and its prolific salmon and steelhead runs. Because of its unique geological history, this rugged landscape functions as an ecological bridge for several Northwest ecosystems and supports one of the most diverse plant communities in the world, including forests, alpine meadows, savannas, valley grasslands, and riparian and bog wetlands. Temperate conifer tree species richness reaches a global maximum in the Rogue-Siskiyous with 30 species, including seven endemics. Overall, the ecoregion is home to over 3,500 plant species, 131 of which are found nowhere else on earth. The Rogue-Siskiyou Priority Region is internationally recognized for its global biological importance: it is considered an Area of Global Botanical Significance by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), a Global Centre of Plant Diversity, a World Wildlife Fund Global 200 site, and has been proposed as a World Heritage Site. In spite of its many accolades, the area is under enormous pressure from unsustainable land management practices that threaten to unravel the ecoregion’s biological tapestry. We partner with organizations working towards achieving the following goals in the Rogue-Siskiyou Priority Region:
We are supporting the following organizations for work in this area. When you click on an organization name you will see a list of all grants made to that organization, which may include projects funded in other program areas. (Organizations receiving science-related grants are not included in this list. Please see our Conservation Science section for those grants.)
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