Overview: Wildfire Risk Reduction

The Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council has created the Central Oregon Partnerships for Wildfire Risk Reduction (COPWRR), an advisory council of 22 stakeholders to build partnerships to restore and sustain Central Oregon forests and communities. COPWRR has identified the lack of coordinated, sustainable supply of small diameter timber as the primary barrier to investments in small diameter-utilizing technology and employment in the region.

Such investments will achieve multiple benefits for Central Oregon communities, including the reduction of catastrophic wildfire risks, healthier forests and wildlife habitats, and jobs and income. COPWRR has been working to develop a "coordinated resource offering protocol" (CROP) pilot to attract investors to the area.

Project Documents and Press Releases

• Declaration of Cooperation: Coordinated Resource Offering Protocol (CROP) [pdf]
• Oregon Public Broadcasting: "Deal Brings Together Environmentalists and Loggers," Ley Garnett, Oregon Considered, 20 January 2005

Project Contacts

• Conveners: Martin Goebel, President of Sustainable Northwest, and Tom Moore, Executive Director of the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council
• Oregon Solutions Project Staff: Scott Aycock
• Central Oregon Partnership for Wildfire Risk Reduction website: http://www.coic.org/COPWRR/home.htm