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The NWOHN will promote the restoration and conservation of oak habitats by identifying key habitats, outreaching to gain support for private lands participation, managing the planning and implementation of restoration on designated sites, linking funding sources to projects, and securing long-term protection through coordination with land trusts and government sponsored safe harbor agreements.
Objectives of NWOHN
- Maintain and expand database of potential oak habitat sites for inclusion into network.
- Provide funding to implement stewardship planning, restoration treatments, and monitoring through grants, and conservation assistance programs.
- Develop stewardship/restoration plans and implement restoration activities.
- Leverage long-term conservation/protection for these lands with assistance from land trusts.
- Create a network of oak habitats accessible to researchers interested in studies involving oak habitat ecology, restoration, fire ecology, and noxious weed control.
- Create a network of sites to demonstrate restoration practices and outcomes to a broad audience including landowners, the general public, schools, and natural resource managers.
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Oregon Aspen Project
Aspen is declining throughout the Western United States. A variety of factors are responsible for this decline including changes in fire regimes and over-browsing of new aspen shoots by cattle, deer and elk. The interruption of natural disturbance regimes in aspen groves such as fire which helped re-initiate new aspen and control conifer encroachment is a main factor in this decline. Aspen regenerate prolifically following fire, floods, avalanches or other disturbance such as timber harvest. However, cattle, deer and elk have greatly reduced re-sprouting of new aspen in many areas.
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