ASHLAND FOREST ALL-LANDS

RESTORATION PROJECT

Pacific Northwest Forest Collaboratives Workshop, 2017 Presented By: Marko Bey, Lomakatsi Restoration Project & Erin Kurtz, NRCS

afarASHLAND FOREST ALL-LANDS

RESTORATION PROJECT (AFAR)

Implement forest restoration and fuels reduction treatments

through a cross boundary, all-lands approach on federal and

private non-industrial lands in and around the Ashland Creek

Watershed.

Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Program

“Improve health and resiliency of forest ecosystems

where public and private lands meet.”

Restoring Ecosystems, Sustaining Communities

4.6 million acres dry forests overly dense and need treatment in Oregon

930,000 acres need treatmentin Rogue Basin

ASHLAND FOREST RESILIENCY

STEWARDSHIP PROJECT (AFR)

SiSiskiyou Mountains Ranger DistrictRogue River-Siskiyou National Forest

A 10 year stewardship project to reduce the risk of severe wildfire in the watershed and to

protect water quality, older forests, wildlife, people, property and quality of life.

Funding, Project Design,

Oversight

Community Engagement

Multi-Party Monitoring

Fiscal Sponsor

Contracting, Workforce Training,

Education

AFR PARTNERSHIP ROLES

REEDER RESERVOIR – SOURCE OF THE CITY’SDRINKING WATER

LARGE WILDFIRES IN ASHLAND’S RECENT

HISTORY

LARGE FIRE HISTORY1959

2009

1910

1973

Complexity moist and dry, low and mixed severity fire

North slopes / bottoms

Shaded, moist, dense

Ridges, southerly

slopes Open

Thinning Around Large Old Trees

Forest Restoration work completed on over 5,000 acres

PROJECT STATUS – SPRING 2017

PROJECT STATUS – SPRING 2017

9 million board feet of timber trucked to local mills

2,100 acres Helicopter Thinning

550 acres Ground-Based Thinning

AFR SPRING 2017

Total reinvested to the project from

sale of by-product: $3.5 Million

AFAR: Advancing a Cross-Boundary

All-lands Approach

afarASHLAND FOREST ALL-LANDS

RESTORATION PROJECT (AFAR)

Klamath-Rogue Oak Habitat Restoration ProjectRegional Conservation Partnership Program

A Collaborative Cross Boundary All-Lands Initiative In Southern Oregon/Northern California

KLAMATH-ROGUE OAK HABITAT RESTORATION PROJECT

REGIONAL CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

Funding,Technical Support

LandownerContracts,

Project oversight

Project SponsorPartnership Lead,Technical Support

Restoration Design,Implementation

Multi-Party Monitoring,

Science delivery,

Environmental Compliance,

Funding,Agreements,

Mission Statement

KSON is a collaborative regional partnership.

Our mission is to conserve oak habitats on private and public lands in southern Oregon and northern California.

Klamath-Siskiyou Oak NetworkMap: BLM

An All-Lands Approach 2014-2019

5,000 acres in need of treatment

1,400 acres of federal and private

lands

Spring 2017:

500 acres implemented

Medford BLM Restoration Stewardship Agreement

ASHLAND FOREST ALL-LANDS

PRIVATE LANDS ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2015-2017

NRCS (Joint Chiefs’ LRP )

• 60 Landowners engaged

• 4,000 acres/ $4 million (EQIP)

OWEB ( Focused investment Partnership)

• 20 Landowners engaged

• 1,200 acres /1.6 million (biennium 2015-17)

52,000 acres 14, 500 acres treated 28% of landscape

AFAR / LOMAKATSI

TECHNICAL TEAM

Tribal Partnerships

Opportunities for Tribes: A comprehensive approach to

ecosystem restoration, workforce capacity and community

business infrastructure development.

• Addressing impacts to aquatic / terrestrial

habitats, and ecocultural systems

• Creating long term sustainable employment

for tribal members in ecosystem restoration

Tribal Ecosystem Restoration Partnership Program

AFAR-Workforce Training & Employment

• 17 FTE

• 200 personnel employed

• 15 contractors hired

• $25 million infused into

communities

Questions?