The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan

A conversation with K. Norman Johnson, Jerry F. Franklin, and Gordon H. Reeves, moderated by Kerry Tymchuk, about their new book The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan. The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems.

Sunday, May 7, 2023
2PM – 3:30PM

Free and open to the public

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

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Join us for our bi-monthly Producer Listening Sessions where producers can share their conservation project needs directly with assembled agency and organization representatives who can listen and provide information and support.

We are responding to a need for more facilitation between agencies, organizations, and producers to accelerate and streamline program enrollment across a wide suite of conservation activities (everything from installing VFDs to riparian habitat improvement projects).

We fill that need by coordinating projects between producers and agencies/orgs to expand capacity and increase communication.

TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022 | 10AM - 12PM

Sprague River Community Center - 23536 Main Street Sprague River, OR

Light refreshments will be provided.

Please RSVP to Kelley Delpit: kdelpit@sustainablenorthwest; 661-747-8562

Participating Entities Include:

Energy Trust of Oregon Intermountain West Joint Venture Klamath Farm Services Agency Klamath Lake Land Trust Klamath NRCS Klamath SWCD Klamath Watershed Partnership Lake County Resources Initiative Macy’s Flying Service Oregon Department of Agriculture OSU Research and Extension Center Sustainable Northwest Trout Unlimited USFWS Partners Program

CAPACES LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST PRESENT:

ELECTRIC TRACTOR DISPLAY

MERGING THE GREEN MOVEMENT & SOCIAL MOVEMENT TO SUSTAIN LIFE ON MOTHER EARTH FOR MANY GENERATIONS TO COME

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Schedule:

FRIDAY, JULY 8TH 11:00 AM - 3 PM

9536 Parrish Gap Road SE Turner, OR 97392

INCLUDES LUNCH PROVIDED BY ANAHUAC FARM OF CAPACES & TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION BY SNW

11:30am - 12:30pm: Welcome & Lunch

Anahuac Farm of Capaces Leadership Institute gives the welcome and offers a serving of lunch to the

community that honors their Indigenous culinary traditions

12:30pm - 2:15pm: Electric Tractor Demonstration & Presentation by Sustainable Northwest & Wy'East

Information session and tractor testing

2:15pm - 3:00pm: Interactive Session - Q&A and Community Dialogue

Includes section related to the e-tractor and technology presented and conversations around sustainability and introduction of green technology

3pm: Closing

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The energy transition is accelerating.  

New state and federal policies dramatically shape the clean energy transition in Oregon. Please join us Wednesday, February 23rd, from 12pm-1pm for our next Making Energy Work quarterly call to dig into critical near term opportunities.

We will be joined by John Cornwell and Rob Del Mar with Oregon Department of Energy to discuss ODOE's Community Renewable Energy Program (CREP). This newly established $50 million grant program supports energy resilience projects across the state with a focus on rural and disadvantaged communities.

In addition, ODOE has been commissioned to study barriers to small-scale renewable energy development. We will dig into this study and discuss how this can help accelerate local clean energy projects.

Also joining the discussion is Neil Baunsgard with The Environmental Center based in Bend, Oregon, to share updates on the proposed Reach Code legislation being debated in the Oregon legislature. Reach Codes would allow cities to create higher energy efficiency standards for buildings.

 Meeting details can be found below. We hope you join us!

MAKING ENERGY WORK QUARTERLY CALL: POLICY UPDATE

February 23rd, 2022

12pm - 1pm PST

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Our Live Edge virtual gala is just a few weeks away on October 14th!

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We are excited to host keynote speaker Peter Brannen, an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate, and The Guardian among other publications. His book, The Ends of the World, about the five major mass extinctions in Earth's history, was published in 2017 by Ecco and was a Forbes Top 10 Best Environment, Climate, and Conservation Book.

PHOTO: Peter Brannen

Integrating Wildfire Risk Reduction, Landscape Restoration, and Climate Adaptation across eastern Washington

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Reducing wildfire risk to communities, restoring landscape resilience, and facilitating climate adaptation are often approached as separate, competing efforts, yet they are interconnected on many levels. In eastern Washington, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) has worked with a wide range of partners to develop an integrated approach to tackle these challenges.

This effort formally began in 2017 with the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan to increase the pace and scale of landscape restoration and reduce uncharacteristically severe wildfire. Since then, WA DNR has prioritized 39 planning areas and conducted landscape evaluations covering 3.2 million forested acres. Landscape evaluations combine quantitative assessments of departure from historical conditions, fire risk, current and future drought vulnerability, habitat for focal wildlife species, and operational feasibility. In 2020, WA DNR conducted an extensive public engagement process to develop a wildfire response benefit prioritization and integrate it with landscape evaluations. As a consequence, the primary products of the landscape evaluation process are treatment targets and prioritization maps for planning areas that combine landscape restoration needs with wildfire operations benefit in what is referred to as dual benefit.

In this 90-minute workshop, WA DNR scientists and planners, along with a representative from a partnering organization, will describe the science, public process, and data products emerging from this framework. Group discussion will focus on how best to use this framework in a collaborative setting.

Panelists:

Amy Ramsey, Forest Health Division, WA DNR

Garrett Meigs, Forest Health Division, WA DNR

Erin McKay, Chelan County Natural Resource Department

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Big Mosquito: Riparian Restoration & Fuels - exploring options with Monitoring & Collaboration

Many Collaboratives and Forest Service partners across the region are considering innovative work in riparian restoration. This webinar looks specifically at fuels, water temperatures, and increasing shrubs and hardwood cover. Come hear from Forest Service staff on the Malheur National Forest, where they successfully partnered with a Collaborative and scientists from the PNW Region Ecology Program to test riparian treatments that removed conifers to restore riparian and aquatic systems.

Big Mosquito: The Malheur National Forest completed a pilot project for active riparian forest management in 2016 on the East Fork of Big Creek. The Ecology Group worked closely with the Forest to set up a robust (CFLRP) monitoring program to fulfill NEPA monitoring requirements, and to support the development of Riparian Zones of Agreement with the Blue Mountains Forest Partners collaborative. Sixteen openings, ranging in size from ¼-1 acre were created, to restore fire regime spatial patterns, continuity of fuels, valley downed wood loading and riparian hardwoods for their allochthonous inputs and their influence on water temperatures. All trees cut were directionally felled toward the creek.

The Monitoring Plan used the National Riparian Core Protocol with a Before-After/Control-Impact (BACI) study design that consisted of three treatment openings and three control areas. Vegetation data were collected before treatments in 2016 and again in 2019, 3 years post-treatment. The Core Protocol established valley cross-sectional transects that collected tree species, canopy cover, basal area, shrub species, and herbaceous species across various landforms (colluvium, terrace, floodplain, and channel). Seven to nine transects occurred in each monitoring reach. Stream shade was measured at each transect and continuous water temperature monitoring was collected above, throughout, and below the openings.

Panelists:

Bob Hassmiller – USFS District Hydrologist

Amanda Lindsay – USFS District Silviculturist

Upekala Wijayratne – USFS Northeast Oregon Ecology Group

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For questions or further information, contact Sally Bernstein, sbernstein@sustainablenorthwest.org

Westside Wildfire Research Initiative Co-producing Science to Meet Management Needs in W. WA and OR

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Increases in area burned and the 2020 wildfires have prompted a greater interest in the role of fire in forests and communities of western Oregon and Washington.

In 2019, the USDA Pacific Northwest Research Station convened researchers and managers in the Westside Fire Research Initiative, a collection of co-produced research projects aimed at filling in critical knowledge gaps and delivering management-level information related to wildfire west of the Cascade crest in Oregon and Washington.

The Initiative’s projects collectively address three main themes:

1) Historical and future fire regimes.

2) Fuels management in moist, mixed conifer forests.

3) Post-fire vegetation trajectories and management strategies.

In this session, researchers will give brief presentations of ongoing and planned future work in each of the three initiative themes in an effort to expose participants to the different projects and project leads, and to enhance communication between collaboratives and researchers as part of the co-production process. Presentations will be followed by group discussion.

PRESENTERS:

Matt Rollins (Program Leader, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Matt Reilly (Postdoctoral Researcher, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Andy McEvoy (ORISE Research Fellow, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Becky Flitcroft (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Eric White (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Gretchen Engbring (Postdoctoral Researcher, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Morris Johnson (Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station)

Josh Halofsky (Research Scientist, Washington Dept. Natural Resources)

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Old trees have enormous social and ecological value. This session gets at the
basics. What are the characteristics of old trees? What ecological roles do they play? How does it develop in the context of active fire regimes? How has the abundance and distribution of old trees changed over time? What are the key threats to old trees in the region? What are management options for protecting old trees in landscapes altered by fire exclusion? 

Panelists: 

James Johnston, PhD, Oregon State University
Andrew Merschel, PhD, Oregon State University
Keala Hagmann, PhD, University of Washington
Paul Hessburg, PhD, PNW Research Station

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RSVP TO: Kelley Delpit

kdelpit@sustainablenorthwest.org

661-747-8562