Blog: Protecting the source waters of California’s largest spring creek
The Medicine Lake Highlands complex of public lands, some 30 miles northeast of Mt. Shasta in California’s Cascade region, is a truly remarkable place. … This area has been called Sáttítla for time immemorial by the Pit River Tribe. It is remote and hardly a blip on most people’s radar. Yet it is on the radar of resource developers. The Pit River Tribe has been fighting for three decades to safeguard this landscape and the waters, cultural values and habitats it provides from proposed development. Last November, the Tribe launched a new initiative to permanently protect the Sáttítla region as a national monument. Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and other conservation-oriented angling and hunting groups are supporting this campaign.