KS Wild works with diverse interests to find common ground, develop restoration-based jobs and help build sustainable communities.

KS Wild has advanced collaborative models of federal forest management for over 5 years on both the local and regional scale. By working with the many interests involved in public lands management we hope to steer federal lands management toward sustainable and restorative natural resource decisions.

Some of our collaborative projects include:

Partnering with Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan (JCIFP) Stewardship Contracting Group, KS Wild is able to encourage good stewardship projects in Josephine County, Oregon. The JCIFP Group is comprised of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management officials, small-scale logging and restoration contractors and KS Wild.

KS Wild also partners with the Southern Oregon Small Diameter Collaborative, a group comprised of Forest Service and BLM officials, conservationists, timber industry representatives and local stakeholders. This diverse group encourages the utilization of small diameter trees from public land throughout southwest Oregon by advancing socially responsible, economically viable and environmentally restorative land management projects.

As a member of the Trinity Forest Restoration Collaborative, KS Wild is also working on restoration projects with community members, foresters and local conservationists in the South Fork Management Unit of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in northwest California.

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Click here to download scientific papers on restoration.

Click on the links below to download a "Forest Restoration and Small Diameter Thinning" publication that describes projects we support.

Small version (600kb)

Large, print-quality version (4.4MB)

In contrast, we have also created a short publication, "Good Examples of Bad Management." Click on the links below to download.

Small version (340kb)

Large, print-quality version (3.4MB)