Ochoco Forest Restoration Collaborative

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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.
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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

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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 possibleand understand what it takes
  to make management economically viable
• Increasing forest management and timber
  production that is ecologically and economically
  sustainable

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Governance

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

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First year accomplishments

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

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Wolf Watershed Analysis
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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

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Specific issues of interest

• Stand density and thinning in clumps (partiularly
  large/old trees) for forest health
• Possible exceptions to removing gt21 trees (e.g.,
  large/young grand fir)
• Management in RHCAs
• Use of Upper/Lower Management Zones
• Use of Forest Plan amendments

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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

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Thank you https//sites.google.com/site/ochococoll
aborative Contact Phil Chang, pchang_at_coic.org