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Williams Community Forest Project

County: Josephine

Primary Resource Concern Addressed: Fire management - Wildfire hazard from biomass accumulation

Project Description
This strategy will help private non-industrial forest landowners reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire on their forestland, using treatments that reduce existing surface and ladder fuels, improve structure and composition, and increase overall forest health. Lower priority will be given to private non-industrial forestland outside of the project boundaries. Through the forest plan and contract ranking process, higher priority will be given to projects that are adjacent to other planned or completed fuel treatments and/or have proximity to strategic roads identified by partners.

Conservation Practices Offered

  • Brush Management (314)
  • Forest Management Plan (106)
  • Forest Management Design and Implementation Activity (165)
  • Forest Stand Improvement (666)
  • Firebreak (394)
  • Fuel Break (383)
  • Tree/Shrub Pruning (660)
  • Woody Residue Treatment (384)

Project Partners

  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Williams Fire Committee
  • Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative (SOFRC)
  • Williams Rural Fire Protection District
  • 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 Questions

  1. Applicant has begun implementing a forest management plan
  2. The applicant’s land is located adjacent to a major public road with project area ingress/egress.
  3. The applicant’s land is located adjacent to public land
  4. The applicant’s land is located on a ridgeline
  5. The applicant’s land is located adjacent to a perennial stream
  6. The applicant’s land is adjacent a residence with completed defensible space
  7. The applicant’s land is adjacent to a completed forest project.