Lomakatsi Restoration Project

Lomakatsi has developed a “green collar” workforce. We provide ongoing training in all aspects of restoration forestry and watershed stewardship to students of all ages.
Current training opportunities include those associated with our work on the Umpqua National Forest, Tiller Ranger District, Douglas County.
Multi-Cultural Ecological Workforce Training Program — History

This program crosses social and economic boundaries [...]

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 [...]