Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center

• Website: Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
• Contact: Bianca Garza
• Email: bianca@mountshastaecology.org
• Telephone: 530.926.5655
• Mailing Address:
  PO Box 1143
  Mount Shasta, CA 96067

Focus:

We are a community of people inspired to honor, protect and restore our world-renowned Mount Shasta. We advocate strong, enforceable protections for our mountain, for clean air and water, for healthy forests and wildlife habitat. We support a community informed and engaged with the issues and ready to act. We encourage leaders and decision makers to learn, understand and act appropriately for citizens and the land, above the influence of outside and exploitive interests.

Bioregion Description:

We recognize Mount Shasta and the surrounding bioregion as a magnificent natural sanctuary drawing visitors from all over the world, and as a sacred landscape of high significance to indigenous tribes. Our work respects its land, air and water as gifts necessary to life. As responsible stewards, we must acknowledge the unique and irreplaceable contribution the region makes to the state of California and the world.

Through this common vision, we continue to ensure Mount Shasta’s outstanding environment will always thrive, attracting visitors to explore, enjoy, connect, and recharge. Local citizens, engaged and informed, benefit from healthy outdoor lifestyles. All people may appreciate our interdependent relationship with the living and non-living aspects of the natural environment. Local leaders, understanding the intrinsic value of this place, will not consider incompatible uses and shortsighted resource extraction as options. Together, we preserve our forests, pristine waters and majestic landscapes for future generations to enjoy and appreciate.

Our founding vision was inspired by the “Bioregionalism” movement, which opposes a homogeneous economy and consumer culture lacking stewardship of the environment, and is based on natural “bioregions” defined through physical and environmental features including watershed boundaries, soil and terrain characteristics. Bioregionalism stresses that such determinations are also cultural phenomena emphasizing local populations, knowledge and solutions.