Accomplishments
Blue Mountains Forest Partners is proud of our accomplishments. Below you can learn more about our work and how we are helping create healthy forests and healthy communities.
Forest Collaboratives - Restoring Oregon's Dry Side (full length)-HD.mp4
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September 8, 2022
21st century planning techniques for creating fire-resilient forests in the American west
Novel approaches to framing wildfire protection (e.g., potential operational delineations, or PODs) and advancements in modeling tools have been critical to improving our understanding of fire and its potential impacts. The successful use ...more -
August 16, 2022
Be the Beaver
In Oregon, our crew forged this connection through a relatively new type of restoration tool: beaver dam analogues (BDAs). Water that backs up behind BDAs recharges the floodplain and increases the wetted width of the stream flow. Essentially, a BDA creates a porous wall of sticks, logs, and leaves that slows the flow of water in one part of the stream and retains much of this flow behind the “dam,” allowing some of this backed-up water to seep into the floodplain. This beaver-like engineering helps promote channel aggradation, or in other words, prevents channels from incising into themselves and away from the natural floodplain. more -
April 18, 2021
They Overcame Mutual Loathing, and Saved a Town
JOHN DAY, Ore. — One of the most venomous battles in our polarized nation is the one that has unfolded between loggers and environmentalists in timber towns like this one in the snow-capped Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon. ...more -
April 18, 2021
Forest Resiliency in Lake and Klamath Counties
Today our forests in Lake and Klamath Counties are in jeopardy. Insect infestations, overstocked Western juniper, and an altered fire regime have all led to heavy fuel loads. A single lightning strike today has a greater probability of ...more -
April 18, 2021
Finding common ground on active forest management
Environmentalists, working alongside timber industry professionals, helped end the ban on logging trees over 21 inches. Instead of fighting in the courtroom, with environmental lawsuits halting timber projects, the former adversaries ...more -
October 4, 2020
Working on timber peace: the Blue Mountains Forest Partners
Hear about our collaborative from Oregon Public Broadcasting's Oregon Field Guide! After the “Timber Wars” left both sides with deep animosity, loggers and environmentalists have done the unthinkable in Eastern Oregon: they've ...more -
October 4, 2020
Forest Restoration in an Era of COVID-19
How has the global pandemic affected forest restoration on the Malheur National Forest? Click on "Read More" to hear from local operators Iron Triangle Logging and Malheur Lumber Company about how they have adjusted to this new challenge.more -
January 4, 2020
Of Woodpeckers and Harvests: Finding Compatibility Between Habitat and Salvage Logging
The western United States is home to many woodpecker species that are strongly associated with recently disturbed forests, including post wildfire and post-beetle outbreaks. These types of landscapes are favored habitat because the dead ...more
