Klamath Siskiou
Oak Network
Mission: The Klamath Siskiyou Oak Network (KSON) is a collaborative regional partnership. Our mission is to conserve oak habitats on private and public lands in southern Oregon and northern California.
Oak Savanna. Photo credit: Jaime Stephens
KSON collaborates with the community and partners within the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion to promote the restoration and conservation of oak habitats. They provide a forum for education and community engagement on issues affecting oak plant communities, encourage applied science, monitoring, and adaptive management in the restoration of oak habitats, and develop and promote best management practices for oak restoration. Additionally, KSON integrates social, economic, and eco-cultural values in the understanding of oak plant communities and forms partnerships and alliances with organizations that share interests in habitat conservation and the restoration of oak savanna, woodlands, and mixed forests.
Klamath Siskiyou Oak Network Work
Land Acknowledgment
Partners of the Klamath Siskiyou Oak Network acknowledge the ancestral lands of the tribes and Sovereign Nations that live in what is now called the Klamath Siskiyou Region of Oregon and northern California: including the original past, present and future Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples, and the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw; Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians; Coquille Indian Tribe; Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians; Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs; Elk Valley Rancheria; The Karuk Tribe; The Klamath Tribes; Ajumawi-Atsuge Nation (Pit River Tribe); Quartz Valley Indian Community; Tolowa Dee-Ni’ Nation; and Winnemem Wintu Tribe.
It is important that we recognize and honor the ongoing legal and spiritual relationship between the land, plants, animals, and people indigenous to this place. The interconnectedness of the people, the land, and the natural environment cannot be overstated; the health of one is necessary for the health of all. We recognize the pre-existing and continued sovereignty of the tribes who have ties to this place and thank them for continuing to share Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and perspective on how we might care for one another and the land, so it can take care of us. We commit to engaging in a respectful and successful partnership as stewards of these lands.