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Oregon's Yellowstone Biodiversity
The Oregon's Yellowstone Wilderness proposal for the Siskiyou Wild Rivers is home to world class biodiversity.
Siskiyou Wild Rivers
World Class Biodiversity
World Class Biodiversity
The Siskiyou Wild Rivers
area hosts an amazing diversity of plants, including hundreds of
species that live nowhere else on earth. Given the abundance of rare
plants living in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers, the World Conservation Union
has designated the region as an Area of Global Botanical Significance.
This amazing diversity is attributable to the area having
been spared recent volcanic activity and missing the last ice age. The plants have been evolving here for a very long time under natural conditions.
Photos: Darlingtonia Fen (Sandy Lonsdale), Wildflower (Wendell Wood)
