Lomakatsi Restoration Project

We are a nonprofit organization that designs and implements ecological restoration projects in damaged forests and watersheds throughout southern Oregon and northern California. Guided by social and ecological principles, we train and employ hundreds of skilled workers.

Since 1995, we have helped restore ecological balance in thousands of acres of public and private land. Our projects set important precedents and receive national recognition.

Our work is done in collaboration with a broad range of partners including private landowners, industry, land conservancies, city and park municipalities, Native American tribes, and federal and state land management agencies.

Through an integrated, holistic approach, our programs encourage the recovery of ecosystems and the sustainability of communities, cultures and economies.”

Lomakatsi’s Accomplishment Highlights for 2012

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NEWS and EVENTS

A Bear Creek Streamside Restoration Workshop!
When: Sat., April 27th, any time between 11am and 2pm
Where: Along Bear Creek in south Medford, near Bear Creek Park. * For more info, click here

Ashland Watershed Youth Training and Employment Program July 15th through Aug. 8th — Lomakatsi Restoration Project invites juniors and seniors from Medford, Phoenix and Ashland High Schools to gain summer employment, hands-on workforce training, and educational experiences in ecosystem management! Participation in this program will provide valuable workforce experience through the exploration of career paths in natural resources, restoration, science and ecology. For a flier, click here. For more info, click here.

Lomakatsi Executive Director speaks at the joint meeting of the Northwest Science Association and the Cascadia Prairie Oak Partnership, March 20-23, Portland. Click here to download a pdf of the abstract: “Designing and implementing a landscape-scale oak habitat restoration initiative in southern Oregon/northern California.

US Forest Service highlights Lomakatsi in a special report, Working Together for Forest Restoration in the Northwest. In October of 2012 Lomakatsi Executive Director, Mark Bey, met with the US Forest Service National Partnership Office in Washington, DC to discuss Lomakatsi’s work in partnership with the USFS on four stewardship agreements in the Rogue-Umpqua, Rogue-Siskiyou and Fremont-Winema National Forests in Oregon, where thousands of acres of impacted forests are being restored and hundreds of jobs being created. As a result, Lomakatsi is being showcased on a national level by this report, issued in February of 2013.

Herald and News article highlights Lomakatsi’s work in Klamath Falls, “Largest restoration effort for Moore Park — Initiative seeks to prevent wildfires, promote native plants”

PROGRESS REPORT – Fall/Winter 2012-2013
Ashland Forest Resiliency Project Included are summaries of Columbia Helicopters’ recent work, and work leading up to it by Lomakatsi Restoration Project: worker training, ecological thinning, wildfire fuels reduction. Wildlife Monitoring and Watershed Education are also described, including a grant to Lomakatsi for an Ashland Watershed Youth Training and Employment Program this summer. Please click on the title for a pdf of the full report.

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For previous entries in this NEWS and EVENTS column, click here for Lomakatsi Accomplishments, under the News tab