Join the Northern Blues Forest Collaborative for an on-site tour of the Baker City Watershed on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forests and adjacent private lands. This is a unique opportunity to explore and evaluate the goals of forest thinning in a sensitive municipal watershed and discuss the need for cross-boundary efforts.

Attendees will have the opportunity to:

• Learn how agencies, the City, the community, and private landowners are partnering on landscape-scale treatment design

• Explore how treatments aim to balance wildfire risk, forest health, and water quality

• Hear about monitoring efforts can inform adaptive management

• Consider how this project can inform future work across the Northern Blues

RSVP by emailing Jeff Costello, Facilitator for the Forest Collaborative

*Please bring water, lunch, and appropriate clothes and footwear; the tour will include a fair amount of walking on uneven surfaces in wet environments.

Join Dr. Jeffrey Falke for a presentation on how climate change effects bull trout populations in fire-prone landscapes, coupled with a presentation about the effects of wildfire in municipal watersheds.

Email Jeff Costello at nbfc@wallowaresoures.org for more information!

The Forest Collaborative is partnering with the Northern Blues Restoration Partnership to host the October Field Tour. This year’s tour will take place on Wednesday October 22 at the the 54 North, Indian Lake, and Battle Mountain Projects on the Umatilla National Forests and adjoining private and Tribal lands.

Attendees to this year’s tour will get to:

• Explore restoration projects across FS, Tribal, and private lands

• Understand cross-boundary challenges and opportunities

• Hear about the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s First Foods vision and traditional land use

• Learn about the relationships between landowners, tribes, agencies, and contractors

• Provide input on current and future restoration planning