Funding provided will support 2 different initiatives:1- funding will provide restoration support to landowners in the little butte upper rogue OAK initiative (initiative) focus area, in cooperation…

Funding provided will support 2 different initiatives:1- funding will provide restoration support to landowners in the little butte upper rogue OAK initiative (initiative) focus area, in cooperation with the klamath-siskiyou OAK network (kson). Lomakatsi will assist landowners with planning to leverage other funding to increase fire resiliency. By addressing fuel loads on private lands, there will be improved overall water quality quantity, improved wildlife habitat for declining species as well as lowering the overall risk of wildfire damage to wildlife habitat, dwellings structures and ultimately, human safety in southern oregon.2- as part of the west bear-southern oregon all-lands restoration project, USFWS partners program funding will support an initiative that aims to complete a minimum of 7,500 acres of forest resiliency treatments serving multiple private landowners in the talent-phoenix-medford wildland urban interface area and adjacent foothills of the upper bear creek valley- siskiyou mountains in southwestern oregon. Lomakatsis project management and technical forestry teams will recruit landowners, design and write treatment plans utilizing advanced technology, conduct forest inventories and oversee implementation of ecological forest restoration and fuels reduction that enhances habitat and reduces wildfire severity risk. Partners program funding will allow lomakatsi to work with private landowners, which will increase the effectiveness of treatments benefiting local communities and ecosystems.