Restoring ecological function through beneficial human actions .
Our mission is to increase the pace and scale of restorative actions on the landscape and provide meaningful and fulfilling employment for the people who live there.
OUR SERVICES
Holistic Landscape Management
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Land ownership is not just a right. It is a great responsibility.
Holistic property management for restoration, resiliency, and health.
Ecological consultation identifying opportunity and insecurity.
Forestry and Prescribed Fire
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Forests are a complex of multiple ecosystems that grow and develop over many cyclical generations. No matter the successional state of your forest, we have strategies and practices that will benefit the land and its owner(s).
Thinning (specialization in low impact hand thinning)
Organize and facilitate broadcast burning and prescribed fires
Trail building
Processing local material for small diameter construction projects (e.g. sheds, porches, arbors, trellises, gazebos, saunas)
Establish or harvest alternative forestry products (such as coppiced wood) to use as cuttings, decoration and building material
Production of on-site biochar
Water and Riparian Restoration
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Our goal is to turn a watershed into a watercatch. We want to hold water on the landscape to help mitigate drought, stabilize stream flows, enlarge natural fire breaks and expand riparian habitat for biodiversity and local-use product. We do this through:
Low-tech stream restoration (e.g. holding water on the landscape, creating stream structures and habitat)
Expanding riparian zone areas by increasing the biodiversity of plantings that have more human value (food, medicine, technology)
Water catchment systems for the home
Water holding earthworks on the land
Seed
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Seeds are the containers that hold the blueprint of life. Restoration efforts would be futile without the seasonal collection, harvest and spreading of seed. We assist in:
Collection of native and non-native plants for habitat restoration and nursery formation
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Biochar offers a rare combination of waste reduction, soil improvement, fire risk mitigation, and climate benefit - all in one solution. We help landowners turn a disposal challenge into a long-term asset for their land.
Training, Education, Outreach
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ES developed and manages the Cascadia Prescribed Burn Association we teach prescribed fire to anyone wanting to learn more. Participate in one of our workshops, invite us to present, or start your own PBA in your community and we will help get you started.
