Applegate Foothills North  This map includes the Buncom, Dakubetede, and Wellington Butte Roadless Areas. Download Map of the Applegate Foothills North Applegate Foothills South This map includes the Boaz Mountain, Collings/Kinney, Little Grayback, Elliott Ridge, Stricklin Butte, and Whisky Peak Roadless Areas. Download Map of the Applegate Foothills South Red Buttes Region This map includes the Condrey Mountain, Indian Creek, Kangaroo, and Grayback Range Roadless Areas. Download Map of the Red Buttes Region Siskiyou Crest Roadless Areas This map includes the Big Red Mountain, Glade Creek, Observation Peak, and Mudusa Flat Roadless Areas. Download Map of the Siskiyou Crest Roadless Areas Siskiyou Wilderness Area This map includes the Siskiyou Wilderness Area and the adjacent roadless areas. Download Map of the Siskiyou Wilderness Area

The view from White Mountain in the Condrey Mountain Roadless Area Listen to Luke Ruediger discuss his new book, The Siskiyou Crest: Hikes, History & Ecology in a radio interview on the Jefferson Exchange. This radio program is part of Jefferson Public Radio which covers Southern Oregon and Northern California. Listen to the Jefferson Exchange interview here

Devil’s Punchbowl in the Siskiyou Wilderness Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi) on Cook n’ Green Butte in the Kangaroo Roadless Area 8′ DBH Western White Pine (Pinus monticola) at Steve Fork in the Red Buttes Wilderness Beargrass (Xerophyllum tenax) in the Siskiyou Fire in the Siskiyou Wilderness Serpentine ridge in the Red Buttes Wilderness The Silver Fork of Elliott Creek from the Pacific Crest Trail Echo Lake in the Red Buttes Wilderness Incense-cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) on Studhorse Creek in the Condrey Mtn. Roadless Area

The Hinkle Lake Botanical Area hosts some of the Siskiyou Crest’s most spectacular high mountain meadows.           Hinkle Lake and the Hinkle Lake Botanical Area are located in the Oregon section of the Kangaroo Roadless Area, adjacent to the Red Buttes Wilderness, above Carberry Creek in the Upper Applegate River drainage. The Hinkle Lake Botanical Area is a place of spectacular beauty,set aside for its significant botanical diversity and quality of habitat. The meadow system surrounding Hinkle Lake is one of the largest in the Red Buttes region, and it hosts numerous rare and endemic species. One particularly rare species, known as the Alpine Liverwort (Chilosyphus gemmiparus), is found in only six other locations worldwide. Unfortunately, in the Hinkle Lake Botanical Area, Alpine Liverwort habitat is being severely degraded by illegal Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) use.          ...

A new hiking and natural history guide to the Siskiyou Crest.   An invaluable and detailed tool for exploring this little known, yet wonderfully diverse region. The Siskiyou Crest: Hikes, History & Ecology explores the sunlit oak woodlands, ancient old-growth forests, scrubby slopes of chaparral, pristine mountain lakes, and the rugged, flower-filled ridgelines of the Siskiyou Crest. The author examines the region’s wild character, unique biological diversity, unusual botany, fire ecology, natural history, and human history with each hike description and introductory chapter.  76 Hikes 19 Roadless Areas The Red Buttes Wilderness The Siskiyou Wilderness The entire proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument  The book outlines the region’s many threats and potential solutions to these threats, including the proposed designation of the Siskiyou Crest National Monument. Take this book along on any Siskiyou Crest adventure! Books are available...