Implementing ecosystem restoration strategies and fuels reduction at ecologically meaningful scales; fostering innovation and the transfer of lessons learned.
What is a Fire Adapted Forest?
For millennia, fire has played an important role in shaping the composition, structure and processes of most native ecosystems in Oregon and Washington. Dry forests, like our ponderosa pine forests, evolved with surface fires that disturbed the system frequently and created open forest structures. Since the late 1800s, grasslands and forests have been changed due to wildland fire exclusion and practices such as livestock grazing and logging. As a result, fires now burn differently across natural landscapes – less often, at larger scales and with different intensities than they burned historically more…
About Northwest FLN
The Northwest Fire Learning Network includes landscapes on federal, state and private land in Washington and Oregon with the overarching goal of accelerating natural fire regime restoration through collaborative strategic planning. Developing a shared vision encourages stakeholders to find solutions that lead to forest restoration and fuel treatments at appropriate scales.
Featured Projects
Deschutes Collaborative Forest Restoration Planning Sub-committee
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Restoration Planning Sub-committee goal / function: Develop collaborative resto...
Deschutes Collaborative Forest CFLRP Information
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Final proposal and John Allen's cover letter attached below. Deschutes ...
Featured Literature & Workshop Summaries
Bibliography: Dry Forests and Dependent Wildlife (171.8 KB PDF)
Events & Hot Topics
Meeting Notes Now Available: Deschutes Skyline Collaborative Mtgs
Thank you for attending the Deschutes Skyline Collaborative Meeting!
Meeting Notes can be found on this website at : http://nw.firelearningnetwork.org/admin/projects/21 - they are the last document in the list.
Our Partners
Partners in the Northwest regional network include the Bureau of Land Management, The Nature Conservancy, USDA Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Geological Survey, as well as Oregon state agencies, Washington state agencies, environmental conservation groups, tribal organizations, county governments, watershed councils, timber companies and industry associations, schools and universities, local and regional fire agencies, private landowners and numerous NGOs.