Lomakatsi Restoration Project

Our objectives are to increase skills, through workshop intensives, orientations, and on-project training.
Training for the forest workers, crews, landowners and others is tailored to the projects, to the worker needs and aspirations, and for the new types of work being designed under current initiatives aimed at healthy forests and ecosystem restoration.
More and more the work [...]

Lomakatsi’s Ecological Restoration Workforce Program
By Marko Bey
This past year marked Lomakatsi’s 10th anniversary as an organization and ‘on the ground’ workforce carrying out ecological restoration projects throughout Southwestern Oregon and Northern California. The success of the past 10 years was demonstrated by the flourishing and expansion of our Ecological Restoration Workforce Program, which employed up [...]

Lomakatsi’s approach to Forestry Education, in Tiller and elsewhere, is twofold. One is for the general public, whereby all stakeholders are invited to tour projects and participate in discussions about all aspects of the forest and projects highlighted. These events typically include Agency personnel, local landowners and neighbors, watershed council members, conservationists and environmental organization [...]