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Man who helped create Cascade Siskiyou National Monument weighs in on new plan to manage it

On top of a hill, overlooking rolling hills covered in coniferous trees. There's a slight haze in the air and some patches of hills look like they've been logged recently.
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The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Southern Oregon

The Federal Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument, finalized a new resource management plan in early January that outlines how the government will take care of the over 100,000 acres of breathtaking landscape.

The Monument covers a large, ecologically diverse region on the border of Oregon and California. In order to learn what environmentalists think about this new management plan, JPR’s Roman Battaglia spoke with Dave Willis, the Chair of the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council and the man who originally fought to create the Monument starting in the 1980s.

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Roman Battaglia is a regional reporter for Jefferson Public Radio. After graduating from Oregon State University, Roman came to JPR as part of the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism in 2019. He then joined Delaware Public Media as a Report For America fellow before returning to the JPR newsroom.