Mt. Shasta Audubon is proud to be your Siskiyou County Audubon Society Chapter!  Our Chapter is dedicated to stewardship, education, and outreach to raise awareness about bird and wildlife conservation in Siskiyou County!  Education and outreach includes hosting scores of free field trips to some of the county’s most biodiverse birding spots in addition to monthly programs on topics ranging from birds, butterflies and dragonflies to native plants, moths, ants and the importance of dark skies for migrating birds.  Stewardship projects include installing pollinator gardens and bird boxes, and hosting invasive weed pulls to provide habitat uplift for birds, pollinators and other wildlife.

For decades our members and volunteers have conducted annual Christmas Bird Counts (the world’s longest-running citizen science database) in the Mt. Shasta, Yreka and Etna areas (more info here). Members also conduct bird surveys on private and public lands to support landowners in making informed land management decisions that result in meaningful bird and wildlife conservation such as the Audubon Certified Ranching Program. The Audubon Certified Ranching Program is a newer program which nationally certifies ranches engaged in bird-friendly ranching. This program is intended to help our declining grassland bird species and promote conservation-minded agriculture. We currently have four different Siskiyou County ranches (totaling close to 10,000 acres) enrolled in the ACR Program!