“After 15 years of massive and severe blazes that have blackened landscape and choked the community with smoke for weeks at a time, severely disrupting people’s lives and the local [...]
Pete Caligiuri, Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project steering committee member and Forest Ecologist with the Nature Conservancy, joined our local morning show Business Break on KTVZ for a brief discussion on the [...]
We Spend Millions To Prevent Wildfires On Projects We Know Aren’t Effective “Each year, foresters here thin out trees, clear brush and light fires like this to burn off fuels [...]
How does a team with contrasting perspectives successfully work together to create healthier forests? Can a team like this be a role model for other communities in the West hoping [...]
Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell is combining two of his life interests – music and trees – into a new national television documentary, America’s Forests with Chuck Leavell. On April [...]
Thinning, Mowing and Prescribed Fire completed during the Spring 2017 prescribed fire season helped firefighters battle the Milli Fire outside of Sisters. During the August 2017 Milli Fire outside of [...]
Bend Bulletin: Pole Creek Fire Tour A busload of 50 people go on a tour of the woods near Sisters, Ore., burned in the Pole Creek Fire. The fire started [...]
Bend Bulletin (2011): Why should we thin the Central Oregon Forest? Interview with John Allen. John Allen, supervisor of the Deschutes National Forest, describes how thinning the forest west of [...]
A video from the City of Bend introducing the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project. Made up of representatives of various environmental groups, timber interests and government agencies including the US Forest [...]
