Published November 4, 2022
With early winter weather dumping snow on forest restoration project areas in Chiloquin this week, Lomakatsi’s Tribal Youth Ecological Forestry Training Program crew has been in the Rogue Valley learning how to safely operate chainsaws. Our Fire Operations Manager Sean Voorhes led the 10 tribal youth ages 18-26 through a four-day National Wildfire Coordinating Group S-212 Wildland Fire Chainsaws course—required for sawyers who do ecological thinning work on federal land—beginning at the Lomakatsi office and then moving into the field for hands on training.