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Restoration of Fire Resilient Landscapes in Deschutes County

County: Deschutes

Primary Resource Concerns Addressed:

  • Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation
  • Degraded plant condition - Plant structure and composition
  • Air Quality Emissions - Emissions of Greenhouse Gases

Project Description
The objective of this Conservation Implementation Strategy is to enhance and restore forest health in Deschutes County while focusing activities in high priority, high risk areas of the wildland urban interface. By working with conservation partners, we will do the following: use the most cost-effective way to reduce hazardous fuels and decrease wildfire intensity, increase the ability of firefighters to protect homes and lives, maintain and improve ecosystem health, improve wildlife habitat by increasing ecosystem resilience, and continue to expand outreach into at-risk communities.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Forest Stand Improvement (666)
  • Brush Management (314)
  • Woody Residue Treatment (384)
  • Herbaceous Weed Control (315)
  • Range Planting (550)
  • Prescribed Burning (338)
  • Forest Management Plan (106)
  • Forest Management Design and Implementation Activity (165)
  • Critical Area Planting (342)
  • Fuel Break (383)
  • Firebreak (394)
  • Access Control (472)
  • Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)

Project Partners

  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Deschutes County Project Wildfire
  • Deschutes Soil and Water Conservation District
  • Private Landowners
  • United States Forest Service
  • NRCS Oregon
  • Private landowners

Application Questions
NRCS uses prioritization questions to evaluate applications for this initiative. See the list of workload prioritization questions on the Oregon EQIP page. Ranking questions below will also apply.

Ranking Question

  1. Is the application project area within the wildland urban interface area?
  2. Does the proposed action include forest stand improvement and slash treatment?
  3. Is the proposed project adjacent (<500 feet) to a forest stand improvement project completed in the past 10 years?
  4. What is the overall watershed wildfire risk?
  5. Is there an approved forest management plan?