Building Partnerships for Wildlife & Landscape Resilience in the West
Bridging between natural resource agencies, private landowners, and tribal communities to enhance habitat and reduce wildfire risk across the landscape.
Lomakatsi Restoration Project is a tribally affiliated ecological restoration nonprofit organization based in Ashland, Oregon with the mission to restore ecosystems and the sustainability of communities, cultures, and economies. Since 1995, they have partnered with thousands of private landowners across Oregon, California, Nevada, and Idaho collaborating with agencies, tribes, and NGOs to innovate strategic, cross-boundary landscape restoration initiatives that have become national models.
Recognizing the growing challenges faced by landowners—including from wildfire, drought, and insects and disease—Lomakatsi helps secure funding from multiple sources and provides technical assistance navigating state and federal programs. They serve as the lead sponsor and implementing partner on multiple Natural Resource Conservation Service Regional Conservation Partnership Program, U.S. Forest Service State, Private & Tribal Forestry, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program awards, accomplishing thousands of acres of ecological thinning and prescribed fire on private and tribal working lands, and adjacent federal and municipal lands.
In all these initiatives, Lomakatsi integrates training and development programs to help build local workforce capacity and create life changing opportunities for tribal and rural youth. This collaborative, ecological forestry approach to healthier ecosystems and more resilient communities also supports local jobs — including timber industry partners, through the sale of logs to local mills as the byproducts of restoration.
» Learn more at lomakatsi.org.
