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About Us

Our Mission

Promote local forest management solutions that foster ecological resiliency and promote socioeconomic health for the southern Willamette forest and communities.

Short Term Goals

  • Continue Rigdon project planning

  • Collaborate on stewardship and GNA projects

  • Support community firewood program

  • Form a recreation collaborative committee to address recreation needs/ goals for the Upper Willamette area

Long Term Goals

  • Support forest and community resiliency

  • Seek value added forest restoration projects

  • Explore opportunities for innovation and implementation

Our Story

Organizing a Community-Based Forest Collaborative

Over the past two decades, communities located near the southern Willamette forest area have experienced economic decline from the loss of the local timber economy. Organizing a community-based collaborative group will provide an opportunity for local communities to join together to promote balanced, restoration-based approaches to the ecological and economic problems they face. Furthermore, community-based collaborative partnerships can bring local knowledge to bear on the planning, design, implementation and monitoring aspects of forest management projects.

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