Facilitating restoration projects on public and private forestland in Klamath and Lake Counties through education, outreach, and diverse partnerships.
Landscape projects in Klamath and Lake Counties
The Klamath Lake Forest Health Partnership (KLFHP) is a cooperative network of diverse local and regional partners who have come together to address forestland management in the region. Within Klamath and Lake Counties, opportunities exist to address ecological restoration and stewardship needs while providing quality jobs for local workers and woody restoration byproducts for local manufacturing. Accomplishing this requires a new approach to natural resource stewardship: one that is locally-supported, incentive-driven, and relies on the power of solutions that integrate the environmental, economic, and social needs of communities. Check out an interactive map of our project areas and recent wildfires.
In order to develop and maintain sustainable forestry and productive forests in the Klamath-Lake Region, KLFHP is committed to:
Providing technological and ecological information on forest health;
Serving as a resource for all forest landowners in diagnosing and addressing forest health problems;
Working cooperatively with landowners, the general public, and forest operators to educate and encourage best management practices on forest lands; and
Using innovative partnerships and funding sources to increase the pace and scale of restoration across public and private lands.
The brochure below was produced by the Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council in partnership with the KLFHP in 2020 to convey the need for forest restoration and to serve as a tool when reaching out to landowners. This effort was funded by a grant from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board. Click on an image to access the pdf version.
This video produced by the USFS shows the benefits of forest treatments in a wildfire scenario on the Timber Crater 6 fire that occurred on the Fremont-Winema National Forest in July 2018.