Resources | Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project

Bend Bulletin: Pole Creek Fire Tour A busload of 50 people go on a tour of the woods near Sisters, Ore., burned in the Pole Creek Fire. The fire started […] Read more Bend Bulletin (2011): Why should we thin the Central Oregon Forest? Interview with John Allen. John Allen, supervisor of the Deschutes National Forest, describes how thinning the forest west of […] Read more A video from the City of Bend introducing the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project. Made up of representatives of various environmental groups, timber interests and government agencies including the US Forest […] Read more “All of the benefits that we care about – whether that’s wildlife or safer communities, safer houses, safer firefighters, green forests to recreate in – that all depends on our […] Read more Why wildfires have gotten worse – and what we can do about it. Megafires, individual fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are on the rise in the western United […] Read more How does a team with contrasting perspectives successfully work together to create healthier forests? Can a team like this be a role model for other communities in the West hoping […] Read more You may have noticed some changes taking place in our forests close to home. Paint on trees, thinning, mowing, and prescribed burning are all visible signs of carefully planned and […] Read more Meet the faces of forest restoration. People who live here, play here and love it here. Biologists, environmentalists, loggers, ecologists, and trail stewards. Runners, cyclists, hikers and paddlers. Your fellow […] Read more You may have noticed some changes occurring in the forests around Bend, Sisters, Sunriver and La Pine, Oregon. Carefully planned thinning, mowing, and prescribed burning create the conditions our forests […] Read more The Bulletin has published an article which takes a look at how forest restoration treatments have increased job opportunities in our community. “The projected growth in the wood-products industry is […] Read more Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell is combining two of his life interests – music and trees – into a new national television documentary, America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell. On April […] Read more By Thomas Maness, Cheryl Ramberg-Ford and Allyn C. Ford Dean, College of Forestry When it comes to proper management of our public forests, some would like to take a page […] Read more Logging is up in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest in Idaho under the U.S. Forest Service timber program that focuses less on commercial sales and instead sees logs as a […] Read more Susan J. Prichard, a research scientist with the University of Washington and the Pacific Fire Sciences Wildland Laboratory has compiled a concise review of how wildfire has evolved in the […] Read more Across the state of Oregon, Forest Collaboratives are working to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration in their communities. Featuring the voices of several collaborative members in Central, Eastern […] Read more

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