Restoration

Forest restoration is a major component of SWFC’s work. Restoration helps improve ecosystem resilience and supports greater biodiversity. It also creates opportunities to engage the local workforce.

The Forest Service Manual defines restoration as “the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed. Ecological restoration focuses on establishing the composition, structure, pattern, and ecological processes necessary to facilitate terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem sustainability, resilience, and health under current and future conditions.”

Stewardship Projects

Stewardship projects address economic and ecological challenges. Rather than timber dollars going back to the national treasury, revenue goes towards on forest restoration work. These projects allow preference to go to local workforce and increase the pace and scale of restoration. Two authorities make stewardship projects possible: Good Neighbor Authority and Stewardship Contracting Authority.

+ Rock - stewardship project

Start: 2016
Finish: EST. 2020

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: 84 acres
  • Slash Treatment: 53 acres
  • Fireline: 1.63 miles
  • Weed abatement: 26.9 acres
  • Road storage/decommission: 2.7 miles

Retained Receipts: ~$380K

+ Burnt - Stewardship project

Start: 2017
Finish: EST. 2020

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: 362 acres
  • Fireline: 5.54 miles
  • Weed abatement: 194 acres
  • Road storage/decommission: 15.82 miles
  • Snag Creation: 488 acres
  • Biomass: 923 CCF

Retained Receipts: ~$1.8MIL

+ Cane - good neighbor authority project

Start: 2019
Finish: 2019

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: 26 acres

Retained Receipts: ~$150k

+ Wall Creek - good neighbor authority project

Start: 2020
Finish: 2022

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: 65 acres

Retained Receipts: ~$300k

+ Twins - good neighbor authority project

Start: 2020
Finish: 2025

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: 180.5 acres
  • Fireline: 4 miles
  • Road Reconstrcuction: 18.3 miles

Retained Receipts: ~$50k

+ Fuji - Stewardship Project

Start: TBD
Finish: TBD

Restoration

  • Acres Thinned: TBD
  • Slash Treatment: TBD
  • Fireline: TBD
  • Weed Abatement: TBD
  • Road Storage/Decommission: TBD

Retained Receipts: TBD