Lomakatsi Restoration Project

By Vickie Aldous
Ashland Daily Tidings
May 25, 2010  

Sawdust flew Monday in the Ashland watershed as crews from the Lomakatski Restoration Project started long-anticipated thinning work.
Some cut down small trees, while others cleared vines, brush and other flammable materials around larger trees.
Aaron Nauth used the stumps of small trees to clamber up a slippery 70-degree slope, [...]

By Vickie Aldous
Ashland Daily Tidings
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May 17, 2010
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In 1959, the show went on at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Elizabethan Theatre as a wildfire blazing up into the Ashland Watershed lit up the night.
OSF is still going strong, and trees have returned to the burned slopes — albeit in a different configuration than existed there before the fire.
On [...]