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November 2017

In November  2017, The West Bend Project received the 2017 Forest Service’s Chief’s Honor Award, the highest award given by the Forest Service.

“The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project team hosted meetings, field trips, presentations and conducted a vast awareness campaign to get buy-in for this project while the employees of the Deschutes National Forest put in literally thousands of hours planning, and now, implementation. This is a true demonstration of how well we can do when we build community support for restoration and how that allows us to increase the pace and scale of restoration in the future.”

– Kevin Larkin, District Ranger on the Bend-Fort Rock District of the Deschutes National Forest