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Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative

Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative. A diverse group of stakeholders who work together to create and implement a shared vision to improve the resilience and well-being of forests and communities in the Ochoco Mountains. Why collaborate on the Ochoco?. History of disagreement and conflict

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Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative

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  1. Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative A diverse group of stakeholders who work together to create and implement a shared vision to improve the resilience and well-being of forests and communities in the Ochoco Mountains.

  2. Why collaborate on the Ochoco? • History of disagreement and conflict • Convergence of interests and desire for community-led dialogue • Local, county, and regional leadership • Evidence of outcomes across Oregon

  3. Goals • Ecologically-sound restoration • Work together on solutions to local socioeconomic and ecological issues • Grassroots community-driven role in public land management • Proactive management for forest health • A safe environment to share needs and ideas, and build solutions • Tangible land management outcomes that address the broadest range of needs • Collaboration early, at the watershed analysis stage • Understand and support viable workforce and forest processing infrastructure that can make restoration possible—and understand what it takes to make management economically viable • Increasing forest management and timber production that is ecologically and economically sustainable

  4. Governance • Executive committee • Main stakeholder body • Facilitator and supporters • Jack Southworth, Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council, TNC • Conveners • Crook County and the City of Prineville

  5. First year accomplishments • Collaborative input to Wolf Watershed Analysis (ongoing) • Discussion of Forest-level issues: roads, mixed conifer • Development of organizational structure and charter

  6. Wolf Watershed Analysis

  7. Wolf collaborative process • Eight full group meetings from April-November 2012, including one field trip • Formation of subcommittees for each broad resource area, which drafted and revised material before presenting it to the full group • Feedback and revision of subcommittee work by the full group • Compilation of all subcommittee work into one document

  8. Specific issues of interest • Stand density and thinning in clumps (partiularly large/old trees) for forest health • Possible exceptions to removing >21” trees (e.g., large/young grand fir) • Management in RHCAs • Use of Upper/Lower Management Zones • Use of Forest Plan amendments

  9. Ongoing work • Shared learning on mixed conifer forests in the Ochoco Mountains (e.g., diversity, distribution, ecology, historic/current condition) • Collaborative input to Wolf NEPA alternatives • Discussion/input on Son Stewardship project • Forest-level restoration and values mapping analysis

  10. Thank you https://sites.google.com/site/ochococollaborative Contact: Phil Chang, pchang@coic.org

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