The AP‘s Jeff Barnard reports from the scene of a coming-to-terms in the timber wars of the Pacific Northwest. It appears to be an enterprise story. He took the pictures too. It also falls into the feel-good category. Everybody in it appears to be getting along. A search finds nothing else on this topic and example.

The news:  recent stimulus money, it says here, has reached into the Rogue River-Siskiyou Nat’l Forest in Oregon and revved up a forest-thinning effort called the House Hope Stewardship Project. It is an exercise in sustained and ecologically robust forestry – selective logging, efforts to replant with a diversity of trees and shrubs, and an eye to jobs in lumber but also plenty of wildlife for birders, hunters, anglers, and hikers who just want to wander through a rich landscape. Plus, one aim is to make sure that wild fires can run wild most places but at minimal peril to towns and cabins.

The organization behind the project has gotten local attention. One well-done example, still on line, ran June 1 last year. Medford (Ore) Mail Tribune – Paul Fattig: Evolution in the Woods ;

Grist for the Mill: Lomakatsi Restoration Project ;  LRP Press Release ;

-CP

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