Lomakatsi Restoration Project

These treatments have been applied to several sites, including areas in the Illinois Valley, Williams Creek Watershed, Colestin Valley, Rogue Valley and Prospect areas of Southwestern Oregon.
Each site presents varying conditions, from south-facing, dry forests with lots of brush to clear, to north facing areas filled with overstory trees.
Treatments are prescribed on the basis of [...]

Lomakatsi works with community members to establish a core local workforce that is trained in LRP’s ecological fuels reduction principles and practices. Community organizing, outreach, and education counteract the fear motivated fire hysteria that is falsely legitimizing excessive logging.
The project has trained over 30 individuals as ‘landscape ecologists’, creating an available ecological workforce in the [...]