Northern Blues Restoration Partnership
Working together across public, private and Tribal boundaries in the Northern Blue Mountains to restore, create, and sustain healthy, fire resilient landscapes and communities.
An “all hands, all lands” approach to forest, watershed, and fire resilience.
The Northern Blues All Lands Partnership is a diverse coalition of local and regional partners working together to coordinate and implement restoration projects aimed at achieving forest, watershed and fire resilience on public, private and tribal forestland across the Washington-Oregon Northern Blue Mountains Landscape.
Many of the challenges our forests and communities face today, such as severe wildfire, invasive species, and insects and disease, don’t adhere to boundaries and don’t stop at property lines. In order to prepare our forests to withstand these natural disturbances, our solutions must span across boundaries and ownerships.
Working together, we can achieve healthy and functioning forest ecosystems and local stewardship based economies that provide a variety of ecological and community benefits, including open space and habitat for native wildlife, forage, quality water supply, local and sustainable jobs, reduced fuel loads and smoke impacts, healthy soils, and forests more resistant to fire, insects and disease.
This act of working together and making decisions is what we call “Shared Stewardship.” Shared Stewardship results in more effective restoration of resilient landscapes and communities so they are able to resist and recover from these natural disturbances.
Our Strategies
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Monitoring and Adaptive Management
We recognize the importance of continuous assessment and learning to improve our restoration efforts and impacts.
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Workforce Development
Our investment in developing local workforce capacity supports healthy and vibrant communities.
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Fire Adapted Communities
We support the development of local Community Wildfire Protection Plans and fire-adapted communities, like Firewise USA.
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Landscape Scale & Cross-Boundary Treatments
We prioritize projects that work across public, private, and Tribal lands, addressing issues at a landscape scale including risk-informed wildfire.
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Special Habitats and Resources
We approach restoration holistically with consideration for special habitats and resources important to local communities.
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Public Engagement and Storytelling
We hope to create dialogue with the public through engaging events and human-centered stories.
