Working with the First Peoples

Since its inception in 1988, the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center has been committed to working on sacred lands issues in close cooperation with the five Tribes surrounding Mount Shasta and other more distant Tribes, represented by the Native Coalition for Cultural Restoration of Mount Shasta and Medicine Lake Highlands Defense.

Together with the Native Coalition, we have cooperated in finding pro bono attorneys to represent our mutual interests in the Save Mount Shasta and Save Medicine Lake Highlands issues, in giving input in numerous forums and processes, and in working with historic preservation agencies to obtain two Traditional Cultural Districts totalling more than 26 square miles.