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    December 2024 FFR Program fact sheet: 2016-2024 activities and outcomes
    (Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2024-12) Sullivan-Astor, Kyle; Coughlan, Michael R.; Schneider, Stephanie; Johnson, Bart R.; Ellison, Autumn
    The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Federal Forest Restoration (FFR) Program continues to make progress toward its statutory responsibility to promote shared stewardship, reduce wildfire risk, and expand critical activities such as forest thinning, prescribed burning, and habitat restoration. Guided by Oregon’s 20-Year Landscape Resilience Strategy, the FFR Program is concentrating efforts on 10-digit Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC 10) watersheds identified as having the greatest need for ecological restoration. These efforts aim to bring forest systems within their natural range of variability while ensuring resilience to climate-amplified disturbance events in the future. Oregon has treated more acres than any other western state, and this prioritization framework enhances the state’s ability to efficiently allocate resources to achieve the program’s statutory objectives and fulfill the strategy’s goals. This report fulfills the requirement of ORS 526.276 to report activities and outcomes of ODF’s work on federal forestlands in Oregon.
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    Fire in the heart of the Oregon Cascades: exceptional variability in fire across the western Cascades
    (Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2024-08) Coughlan, Michael R.; Cummings, Tressa; Derr, Kelly M.; Johnson, Bart R.; Johnston, James D. (James Daniel); Lewis, David G. (David Gene), 1965-
    Wildland fire is a fundamental forest ecosystem process. However, resilience to wildfires is declining in forests of the western US, in part because of the loss of complex and varied forest structures that can reduce wildfire spread and severity. In the past, Indigenous traditions served the ecological and spiritual needs of human communities and landscapes through land stewardship practices such as cultural burning and selective harvesting of natural resources. We hypothesize that these practices played a critical role in the maintenance of fire regimes and resilience of the forest to catastrophic wildfire and climate change broadly. Displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples and prohibition of their cultural practices led to the diminishment of cultural burning. This, coupled with fire exclusion and suppression policies by federal and state agencies, has contributed to a decline in forest health and a shift toward less resilient landscapes.