Forest Bridges: The O&C Forest Habitat Project

04/09/2026

Forest Bridges 2026 Spring Newsletter: Springing into Action 🕶️ - https://mailchi.mp/forestbridges/a-significant-summer-17476184

02/14/2026

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11/12/2025

Join us, forest Bridges, in Breath of the Forest, a multifaceted outdoor FREE event to honor and encourage the next generation of forest stewards during this time of uncertainty.

While things are challenging, it is crucial to gather with community to maintain hope and a shared vision to reach the precipice of forest ecosystem and community transformation.

To register for the event, go to the link in our bio!

10/28/2025

Forest Bridges had the great pleasure of presenting to the Salem Audubon Society about Active Conservation Management. This bridging group came with an enthusiastic attitude, a desire to learn, and great follow up questions for Denise! How do you think Active Conservation Management helps our birding communities?

10/17/2025

11/19, 9-12:30 pm PT: Smoke Management in the NW Virtual Workshop, hosted by U.S. EPA Northwest Region! To register, complete the Microsoft form below. Building on the rich discussions from our April convening, this half-day workshop will bring together land managers, air quality professionals, tribal and state partners, and public health stakeholders to continue advancing collaborative approaches to smoke and wildfire management across the region.

https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=eCgFR53Gc0uxesXQDXVJuNxUCshndO5DusyS5diQ9kZUNlRUM0xBNENMMjBWRTFBNUIwQkc1UzQ2Sy4u&route=shorturl

10/13/2025

Let us celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day!

10/02/2025

Join Yale Forest Forum for the next lecture in their A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management Speaker Series:

The Ideas that Grew Trees (and a Profession)

October 9, 2025 at 12pm Eastern

This episode features Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History - Pomona College

The Yale School of the Environment and the Society of American Foresters were founded in 1900; the U.S. Forest Service emerged five years later. There are origin stories for each but taken together they mark the rapid institutionalization of what their founders—who were deeply involved in all three organizations—described as “scientific forestry.” The first word may be more important than the second, for the turn of the last century was when expertise, and the educational credentials that signaled one’s knowledge, were reinforced through membership in the relevant professional society. This process worked in two directions: it created an inside group (those who could be called foresters) and an outside group (those who could not lay claim to that nomenclature). Nothing is ever so simple, and this talk will address the tangled process of including and excluding that has its own history within the broader conservation movement.

For more information, visit: https://yff.yale.edu/speaker/char-miller

Sign up for the Webinar series here: https://yse.to/YFF25history2

https://yff.yale.edu/

09/29/2025

Forest Bridges extends its deepest sympathies to the family, colleagues and friends of Isabella Oscarson, an Idaho Department of Lands firefighter who died last Friday after being struck by a falling tree while working on a prescribed fire in northern Idaho. And we give profound thanks to all wildland firefighters in our nation for their efforts in the face of such high risk.

Isabella Oscarson died from her injuries on Friday. Governor Little ordered flags to be immediately lowered in her honor.

09/26/2025

Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest are earning national recognition for something federal land management agencies have struggled to achieve: healthy, resilient forests. The following article explores how, despite receiving less than 40 cents for every federal dollar spent on national forests, tribes are restoring forest health and reducing tree mortality:

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/09/25/tribes-lead-the-way-in-forest-resilience/

COMMENTARY | Tribal lands in the Pacific Northwest are earning national recognition for something the U.S. Forest Service has struggled to achieve: healthy, resilient forests.

09/26/2025

Join The Forest School at the Yale University School of the Environment for the next lecture in their A History of Scientific Forestry: From Extraction to Ecosystem Management Speaker Series:

Autochthony and Forestry: Two Models of Place-Making Amongst the Trees

October 2, 2025 at 12pm Eastern

This episode features Ryan Hellenbrand, Lecturer - The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The College of Menominee Nation – Sustainable Development Institute places “autochthony” at the center of their theoretical model, emphasizing the importance of Menominee relationships with the forests of their homelands. The arrival of German settlers in America brought intellectual systems like forestry, which similarly rested on assumptions of a unique German connection to forests. This presentation outlines the political-ecological implications of settler claims to autochthony as the axiological engine driving the implementation of forestry in the U.S. during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

For more information, visit: https://yff.yale.edu/speaker/ryan-hellenbrand

Sign up for the Webinar series here: https://yse.to/YFF25history2

https://yff.yale.edu/

09/19/2025

Every Sept. 27, organizations across the country celebrate National Public Lands Day, a holiday dedicated to the conservation of public lands and the enrichment they bring to communities.

Next Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District will celebrate the occasion with a of day trail maintenance in which anyone and everyone in the community is invited to restore the Susan Creek Falls trail head.

https://www.nrtoday.com/news/bureau-of-land-management-plans-trail-maintenance-day-for-susan-creek-falls/article_e5247e42-034e-4d14-8909-783ecece46e1.html

The News-Review

PC: https://thedyrt.com/camping/oregon/blm-susan-creek-recreation-site/gallery/water/media/901252

09/19/2025

Oregon has lost out on more than $48.6 million in federal money for rural roads, public services and schools since 2023 as Congress failed in the last year to renew a federal act that has sent billions to western states in the last 20 years.

Most recently, Congressional Republicans failed to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act in the tax and spending cut megabill [The One Big Beautiful Bill Act] they passed in July. The money is meant to compensate counties with large swaths of federal land within their borders for the costs of providing critical services to people and industries using those lands for activities that generate revenue for the federal government — such as animal grazing and timber production.

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/09/15/oregon-missed-out-on-48-million-in-rural-school-community-funds-since-act-expired-report-finds/