Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative
Coming Together for Healthy Forests & Communities
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.