In November 2017, The West Bend Project received the 2017 Forest Service’s Chief’s Honor Award, the highest award given by the Forest Service.
“The Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project team hosted meetings, field trips, presentations and conducted a vast awareness campaign to get buy-in for this project while the employees of the Deschutes National Forest put in literally thousands of hours planning, and now, implementation. This is a true demonstration of how well we can do when we build community support for restoration and how that allows us to increase the pace and scale of restoration in the future.”
- Kevin Larkin, District Ranger on the Bend-Fort Rock District of the Deschutes National Forest
In 2020, the DCFP proposed and was awarded an extension of an additional 5 years for participation in Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program in order to:
Complete outstanding treatments and accomplish holistic landscape restoration objectives originally committed to in our National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents
Uphold and leverage CFLRP funding and federal appropriations invested in the DCFP landscape to date
Maintain relationships and trust with the diverse DCFP Collaborative membership that have invested 10 years in the CFLRP effort
Sustain social license with our communities and partners