Applegate Siskiyou Alliance has opened registration for its Siskiyou Crest Conifer Field Trip Series that will visit all 25 species of conifers that grow in the Siskiyou Crest region of southwest Oregon and northwest California, over the course of eight different field trips this summer. Registration is opening just in time for Native Plant Appreciation Month!

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The Siskiyou Crest is at the heart of the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion and home to one of the richest coniferous forest regions of the world, including endemic conifer species that grow nowhere else on earth.

The Siskiyou Crest Conifer Field Trip Series highlights the 25 species of conifers that grow in the Siskiyou Crest region. From moist, low elevation, forested canyons, to dry, rocky ridgelines at high elevations, the field trip series will visit each conifer species in the wide variety of ecosystems they inhabit.

Each field trip will be led by Luke Ruediger of Applegate Siskiyou Alliance, and Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds, as well as expert botanists and ecologists from around the region, including: Wayne Rolle (Little Grayback trip), Romain Cooper (Sucker Creek Trip), Julie Spelletich & Richard Callagan (Anderson Butte trip), Scot Loring (Sundew Lake trip), Barb Mumblo (Big Red/Dutchman/Tamarack & Whisky Peak trips), Matt Dybala (Miller Lake trip) and Julie Kierstead (Mt. Ashland trip).

The field trips will discuss a wide variety of topics related to the specific conifers visited, and depending on the trip, will also cover general ecology, botany, biodiversity, habitat connectivity, wildlife associations, non-vascular plant associations, fire ecology, and they will be fun adventures at popular destinations, as well as remote, backcountry areas that are seldom visited. Field trip leaders will point out and help identify wildflowers, shrubs and other tree species during the trips as well.

The field trip series is a fundraiser for Applegate Siskiyou Alliance.

Come join us on this conifer adventure series, and meet some new friends — humans and plants — along the way.