West Bear All-Lands Restoration Project: Controlled Pile Burning

Published April 14, 2022

Lomakatsi took advantage of the cool, wet weather yesterday with 16 crew members heading up to the West Bear All-Lands Restoration Project to complete controlled pile burning across 135 acres. Here are some photos of their work on a private land site west of Talent that serves as an important strategic anchor point for response in the event of a wildfire, or for the application of future prescribed fire.

Treatment goals include reducing overly dense vegetation and thinning smaller diameter trees to increase forest health and reduce the risk of severe wildfire. This portion of restoration was funded by our partners at Sustainable Northwest, through private funding as part of their SWIFFT initiative (Sustainable Northwest), and in partnership with Oregon Department of Forestry.

West Bear is a project of Rogue Forest Partners, a diverse suite of public agency, tribal and non-profit organizations—including Lomakatsi, serving as the lead implementation partner—that are conducting landscape-scale restoration at six project sites across the Rogue Basin. Lomakatsi crews also accomplished 64 acres of piling burning at the Williams project area earlier this week, and will continue operations in West Bear through the week as smoke clearance allows.

Learn more about West Bear, Williams, and the other project areas at rogueforestpartners.org.

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Restore ecosystems and the sustainability of communities, cultures, and economies.

We acknowledge that Lomakatsi operates programs across the ancestral lands of aboriginal peoples who lived and live in the watersheds of the Willamette River, Rogue River, Klamath River, Umpqua River, and Pit River, in what is now called Oregon and California. From sagebrush hillsides and mixed conifer forests, to oak woodlands and riverine systems, we offer our respect, recognition, and gratitude to the original past, present, and future inhabitants of these landscapes, to whom we dedicate this work.