Lomakatsi Restoration Project

Private lands comprise an important percentage of forestlands, which often represent ecological strongholds and significant islands of biodiversity that have not subjected to continual resource extraction and degradation.In conjunction with performing restoration work, LRP promotes ‘Conservation Easements’ to legally protect the land in perpetuity from commercial resource extraction activities.
LRP established stewardships with more than 25 [...]

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 [...]