We have a thesis about this bioregion, and we will not pretend otherwise.
The Klamath-Siskiyou is one of the most distinctive places in North America. It is a globally recognized biodiversity hotspot, the headwaters of major Pacific rivers, the site of the largest dam removal in United States history, the home of a forty-year-deep integrative medicine community, one of the most significant cannabis-producing regions in the country, and home to an unusual concentration of specialty manufacturers, festival institutions, conservation operators, applied technologists, and ecological practitioners.
A great many of the questions being worked on here are also being worked on in other small regions: Bozeman, Asheville, Santa Fe, Bend, Burlington, and roughly seventy more across the continent that share a recognizable signature.
We treat these regions as part of our work from the start. The sample size we need to recognize patterns isn't available locally; it is available across the network. Our monitoring system watches peer-region experiments alongside ours.
We are not neutral about whether this bioregion can be a leader in the era that is now arriving. We think it can. We think it already is, in places that aren't yet visible to themselves. We bring that thesis to every piece. Readers should expect us to have an argument and to defend it with evidence.