NEWS and EVENTS
Volunteers needed!
Meyer Creek Riparian Restoration Project
Come join us for a morning of tree planting!
When: Saturday, February 4th, 2012 9am-1pm
Where: “The Farm” at 189 E. Valley View Road, Ashland
Directions from I-5: take Ashland exit 19, go uphill on South Valley View Rd., turn right onto East Valley View Rd., take the long driveway on left. Additional activities include log cribbing for stream bank erosion control. Snacks, gloves and tools provided. For more information: info@lomakatsi.org * 541-488-0208
Full Circle Schools: Medford Bear Creek Riparian Restoration Project – Spencer Street Adopted Site. 
During the 2011 season, nearly 300 students and community volunteers from throughout the region put in over 840 volunteer hours of hands-on restoration work planting a total of 367 native trees — thanks to a grant through “Together Green,” a collaboration between Toyota and Audubon, that helped implement this project. For lots of wonderful photos and more, follow the Facebook pages of Spencer Street and Lomakatsi. For a large aerial photo of where this is in Medford, click here.
Full Circle Schools Report
Medford Bear Creek Park Riparian Forest Restoration Project Funded by a $35,000 TogetherGreen Innovation Grant by the Audubon Society and Toyoto to the Rogue Valley Audubon Society for collaborative work with Lomakatsi, the City of Medford and others working along 1700 linear feet of Bear Creek.
Removing invasive blackberries and planting native trees will increase shade and cool the creek to help salmon and steelhead.
US Fish & Wildlife Service Highlights
Lomakatsi’s Oak Restoration Work
Partners — A Unity of Effort Saving Oregon Oaks in the Colestin Valley, by Jon Myatt, External Affairs, Region 8, US Fish & Wildlife Service Journal.
2011 Lomakatsi Accomplishment Highlights
Lomakatsi has had another great year restoring ecosystems and sustaining communities throughout southern Oregon and northern California. This year we worked collaboratively in restoring thousands of acres of forests and watersheds, educated hundreds of youth in hands-on, ecological restoration education, and trained and employed hundreds of people in our workforce, including Klamath Tribal members.
The Central Umpqua – Mid Klamath Oak Habitat
Conservation Project 
In order to provide assistance to owners of agricultural land and non-industrial private forestland, Lomakatsi has been awarded $1,829,000 to use over a period of three years (2011-2013) on a special restoration initiative known as the Central Umpqua – Mid Klamath Oak Habitat Conservation Project. Lomakatsi will coordinate and lead the partnership effort to implement the project. Read More
PAST EVENTS
FULL CIRCLE SCHOOLS EVENTS:
Native Tree identification activities and native grass seeding, Ashland Creek Pond Project, Friday,12/2/11 . . . Tree planting and macro-invertebrate studies (by OSU extension staff), with students from Willow Wind Community Learning Center. Wednesday, 11/30/11, 2-3:30. . . . Tree planting, with students from Logos Public Charter School, Bear Creek Riparian Forest Restoration Project, Medford. Tuesday, 11/29/11, 12 – 12:30.
“The Ashland Watershed: where our water comes from and where it goes.” This review of Ashland’s water supply from top to bottom was prepared by staff from North Mountain Park on behalf of the Ashland Forest Resiliency Project, and presented to six classes of 6th grade students, November 14-18, 2011
BEAR CREEK RIPARIAN FOREST RESTORATION, Saturday, November 19th, 11am to 3pm, In partnership with Rogue Valley Audubon Society & the Medford Tree Committee
STREAMSIDE FOREST RECOVERY WEEK, November 7-12, 2011 . . . A BIG SUCCESS! Up to 90 students a day learned how to help out the streamsides along Bear Creek in Medford and Cottonwood Creek in the Colestin … with the help of people from Ashland High School, John Muir School, St. Mary’s School, Logos Public Charter School, Rogue Valley Audubon Society, and others.
OAK RESTORATION PARTNERSHIP EVENT
On November 3, 2011 Lomakatsi, US Fish and Wildlife Service, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Klamath Bird Observatory, hosted a successful event that helped agencies and organizations learn about the oak habitat restoration projects Lomakatsi is implementing in the ColestinValley. We had 26 individuals attend from California and Oregon from the Fish and Wildlife Service, NRCS, Forest Service, BLM, Oregon Department of Forestry, and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. Participants explored four different restoration sites at varying stages in the restoration process and learned about the bi-state regional effort led by Lomakatsi through the NRCS Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative (CCPI). The CCPI is aimed at restoring vanishing Oak habitats in Douglas, Jackson and Siskiyou Counties.
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