The remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border that makes up the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up two challenges to its expansion.
FILE - Pilot Rock rises into the clouds in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument near Lincoln, Ore., July 6, 2000. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, a remote expanse of wilderness along the California-Oregon border, will not lose any of its acreage after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 25, 2024, declined to take up two challenges to its expansion.
“The monument and its expansion, it’s now the law of the land,” said Kristen Boyles, an attorney for Earthjustice, which represented groups supporting the expansion of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.March Madness and Sadness: Pac-12 winning and SEC losing through two days of the NCAA TournamentThe Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument was created in 2000 to protect what is considered an ecologically valuable juncture of the ancient Siskiyou Mountains and the younger volcanic Cascades.
While most of the monument is in Oregon, about 5,000 acres reside in California, adjacent to the state’s Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Area. The Chronicle reported that they argued that the Antiquities Act couldn’t trump federal regulation to preserve timber harvests on Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands, known as O&C Lands. The federal lands were originally devoted to building a railroad between San Francisco and Portland but were later conveyed back to the government with conditions.
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