Southern Willamette Forest Collaborative
Coming Together for Healthy Forests & Communities
Implementation
Restoration
Forest restoration is a major component of SWFC’s work. Restoration helps improve ecosystem resilience and supports greater biodiversity. It also creates opportunities to engage the local workforce.
The Forest Service Manual defines restoration as “the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Ecological restoration focuses on establishing the composition, structure, pattern, and ecological processes necessary to facilitate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem sustainability, resilience, and health under current and future conditions.”
Stewardship Projects
Stewardship projects address economic and ecological challenges. Rather than timber dollars going back to the national treasury, revenue goes towards on forest restoration work. These projects allow preference to go to local workforce and increase the pace and scale of restoration. Two authorities make stewardship projects possible: Good Neighbor Authority and Stewardship Contracting Authority.
Resources
Click HERE for Implementation Advisory Committee Resources.