Forest Health & Fire: Breakout session
Participants
Gwyn Myer
John Kelly – hydrology Mendocino national forest – truning
Mark Newberger –
Bill Fegin -
Bryce Kellogg
Mark Valence – board member
Darren Borgias – N
Richard Newman SOCAN
Rochelle Newman
Alden Moffat – Ancient Forest National Park
Marion Hadden
Laren Whittenberg BLM
FS – forest health
Suzie Stevens Briody
Bill Schalp – forest entomologist – south of Eugene, west
Jack Shipley
Spence
Cotter Houligard
Ellen USFS – Sarah Rockwell – KBO
Megan Nunez DEQ – w
Leif – Bellview Grange, firefighter, Cascadia Resilience Network
Sarah Elvington – Plant Oregon
Tom Doolittle – board of Thrive
Marty Main – consulting forestry business
Start with Values we want to uphold
Legacy trees
Unique habitat & Wildlife protection, connectivity
Carbon sequestration
Water retention
Biodiversity
Public education
Protecting homes in the WUI
Economic sustainability
Grassroots democracy
Intrinsic value of nature
Protecting wilderness
Recreation
Health – forest and human
Knowledgeable/Effective Workforce
Fire –
Soil
Come up with actionable items: feasibility, timeframe, scale, will it make a difference, it could create a new project or project location.
Goal: how to avoid high-intensity stand-replacing fire??
Actions
- Ancient Forest National Park (3)
- Restore landscape-scale approach to restore fire to landscape (
- Community Wildfire Education Program: Public education about fire: Speak to value of fire on the landscape, Gwyn is working with Laura Ashley on a fire-wise programs in schools
- Prescribed burning / Promoting wildland fire -Resilient
- Promoting a CCC-type job program for young people
- Widespread fungal inoculation (Fungi for the people)
- Incorporate TEQ – traditional ecological knowledge into land management
Need continuity of funding to continue projects forward.
BLM hazardous fuel dollars
Lack of FS & BLM funding for fuels reduction within
Two Final Projects:
1) Fire Resiliency conference
Rogue Basin Collaborative: Cohesive Forest Restoration Strategy
SOCAN / SORFC / joint conference in June 2016
Purpose: to explore the Cohesive Forest Restoration Strategy
Who is the target audience? Specialists & General Public
Other groups to include:
- Native speaker and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
- Jackson & Josephine County Natural Resources
- OR Dept of Forestry
- Industry
- Education groups
Also involved
Fire learning network
Fire adapted communities learning network
SOFRC
TNC
2) Community Wildfire Education Program
For details – see Gwyn and Megan