# Siskiyou Land Conservancy: Protecting California's Wild North Coast and Rivers Since 2004 Generated by Yoast SEO v28.2, this is an llms.txt file, meant for consumption by LLMs. ## Pages - [Contact us](https://siskiyouland.org/contact-us/) - [Smith River NPDES Findings comments](https://siskiyouland.org/smith-river-npdes-findings-comments/) - [Easter Lilies and Pesticides](https://siskiyouland.org/easter-lilies-and-pesticides/) - [Take Action](https://siskiyouland.org/take-action/) - [40 year Smith River report](https://siskiyouland.org/40-year-smith-river-report/) ## Posts - [Huge Crowd Tells Water Board: Stop the Pesticide Poisoning of the Lower Smith River](https://siskiyouland.org/2025/10/21/huge-crowd-tells-water-board-stop-the-pesticide-poisoning-of-the-lower-smith-river/): In Del Norte County on October 8, 2025, more than 70 people attended a meeting of the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to tell the state: Enough is enough, stop allowing Smith River easter lily farmers to poison the habitat and the people of the lower Smith River\. The epic meeting began at 6 p\.m\. and lasted five hours, yet few in the standing\-room\-only crowd left early\. Water Board staff took nearly three hours to report to the four\-member Water Board on state efforts to create an agricultural permit that would allow Smith River Easter lily farmers to continue polluting the river’s estuary and impacting local residents\. \read full article\ - [State Finally Creates Legal Framework for Protecting the Smith River estuary From Pesticides](https://siskiyouland.org/2026/08/18/state-finally-creates-legal-framework-for-protecting-the-smith-river-estuary-from-pesticides/): For the first time in history, Del Norte County Easter lily growers will be monitored and regulated by the state in response to the farmers’ ongoing pesticide contamination of the Smith River estuary\. Yet the legal mechanism adopted by the state is unlikely to result in real protections for the estuary anytime soon\. On August 6 , 2026, the California North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board voted 5\-1 to adopt an Easter lily Agricultural Order that sets “thresholds” of allowable pesticide contamination in the Smith River estuary\. Pesticide detections above the thresholds will trigger action to by the state to require lily growers to reduce contamination levels\. The Order also lists “Best Management Practices” that lily growers may adopt in order to keep pesticides from fouling protected waters—contamination that has been occurring for nearly eighty years \read full article\ - [SLC Protecting and Restoring\ the Mad River Reserve](https://siskiyouland.org/2026/05/20/slc-protecting-and-restoring-the-mad-river-reserve/): \Summer 2026\ In the summer of 2025, after Siskiyou Land Conservancy secured ownership of two adjacent riverfront properties along Baduwa’t \(the Mad River\), we knew we had our work cut out for us\. The Mad River Reserve spans 353 acres\.\.\.\Read more\ - [Will the State of California Finally Protect the Smith River Estuary from Dangerous Pesticides?](https://siskiyouland.org/2025/09/24/will-the-state-of-california-finally-protect-the-smith-river-estuary-from-dangerous-pesticides/): \Will the State of California Finally Protect the Smith River Estuary from Dangerous Pesticides?\ \ The California North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board has resurrected a long moribund agricultural permit process to allow Easter lily farmers, in Del Norte County, to continue polluting the vital estuary of the Wild and Scenic Smith River and nearby human populations with high concentrations of deadly pesticides\. Siskiyou Land Conservancy views this process as largely illusory, and more of a lengthy distraction, given the state’s decades\-long refusal to protect the Smith River estuary and prohibit illegal discharges of pollutants into protected waters\. \Read more\\. \ \To read SLC’s comments on the first phase of the resurrected permit process—“Findings”\.\ - [Speak Out OCT 8 to Protect the Smith River Estuary from Pesticides](https://siskiyouland.org/2025/09/24/speak-out-oct-8-to-protect-the-smith-river-estuary-from-pesticides/): \State Water Board to take public testimony on widespread contamination of the nationally important Smith River\.\ On October 8, 2025, the full North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board will hold a public meeting in Crescent City to take testimony on widespread pesticide contamination of the Smith River estuary\. \Please make your voice heard\! \We need the public to tell the Water Board: End toxic pesticide contamination of the Smith River estuary\. The meeting: Wednesday, Sep\. 8, 2025 Del Norte County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 981 H Street, Crescent City Room 100 To attend \remotely click here\.\ \read full article\ ## Categories - [News](https://siskiyouland.org/category/news/) - [Media](https://siskiyouland.org/category/media/) - [Reports](https://siskiyouland.org/category/reports/) - [Water Quality](https://siskiyouland.org/category/reports/water/) - [Salmon](https://siskiyouland.org/category/reports/salmon/) ## Tags - [Arcata](https://siskiyouland.org/tag/arcata/) - [Spring Celebration](https://siskiyouland.org/tag/spring-celebration/) - [Joanne Rand](https://siskiyouland.org/tag/joanne-rand/) - [Terra\-Gen](https://siskiyouland.org/tag/terra-gen/) - [health assessment](https://siskiyouland.org/tag/health-assessment/) ## Optional - [Sitemap index](https://siskiyouland.org/sitemap_index.xml)