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Friday, 9:45am

Discussion about the appropriate use of different restoration techniques, tools and equipment: What has worked, what hasn’t and lessons learned.  During this session presenters will talk about techniques and approaches for restoring forests including thinning, prescribed fire, road removal, and instream restoration using different types of equipment and tools.  Panelists will discuss ecologically appropriate methods and strategies to avoid increasing fuels, impacts to soils, and fish and wildlife habitat.

Speakers

• Marko Bey, Director, Lomakatsi Restoration Project
  Holistic Ecological Practices and Strategies for Forest Restoration
• Kim Erion, President, LKE Corporation
  Naturalization methodology of engineered watershed and stream restoration
• Mark Vander Meer, Restoration Ecologist; Forester & Soil Scientist, National Network of Forest Practitioners, Watershed Consulting, LLC, Wildland Conservation Services
  Forest Restoration Impacts to Soils - A guide to forest soil stewardship

Moderator

Anne Martin, National Field Director, American Lands Alliance

Recommended Readings

Jonathon J. Rhodes.  The Watershed Impacts of Forest Treatments to Reduce Fuels and Modify Fire Behavior.  Pacific Rivers Council, February 2007.

Powers et al.  The North American Long-term Soil Productivity Experiment: Findings from the First Decade of Research. Forest Ecology and Management 220 (2005) 31–50.

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Marko Bey

Marko Bey is co-founder and co-director of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project and serves as its Restoration Forestry Resource Specialist, and Ecological Workforce Training Professional. Lomakatsi Restoration Project is a non-profit organization formed in 1995 to develop and implement community-based ecological restoration projects throughout the Klamath-Cascade-Siskiyou ecoregions of southern Oregon and northern California. Since 1986 Mr. Bey has worked in the fields of conservation, restoration forestry, and ecological restoration, specializing in riparian and oak woodland recovery. He is President of Lomakatsi Ecological Services Inc., a for-profit corporation formed to employ restoration forestry crews for ecologically driven contracts on federal lands. Beginning in 1987, Mr. Bey spent 8 years working for forestry contractors, on federal lands as a member of the mobile workforce, working in 6 Western states as a lead laborer, inspector, agency liaison, and crew boss. He has an extensive experiential education in ecological restoration and has worked in a wide diversity of landscapes. In addition to acquiring knowledge ‘from the ground up’, Marko has complimented his experiential education through self study, training seminars and intensive skill learning- certification programs. Over the past 20 years, Marko has participated in lengthy internships, studying with a variety of recognized forest and watershed resource professionals.

Kim Erion

Kim Erion, has been the President of LKE Corporation since 1992 and is a certified woman operator.  Kim grew up in the woods.  Her grandfather owned a saw mill and trucking company.   For 15 years Kim has been dedicated to restoration throughout the Pacific Northwest.  LKE Corporation has completed several hundred miles of watershed restoration throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California.  Her husband Jim’s restoration work includes the 1980’s Mt. St Helens debris flows, where some of his own instream restoration designs were implemented on the Clearwater and Muddy and are still regarded as key study areas and are a design base for instream work designed today.  Both Kim Erion and Jim are known for going beyond specification and their conscientiousness with a Naturalization Methodology to engineered restoration sets a higher standard wherever they go.
Kim volunteer teaches Oregon Trout, Ducks Unlimited, ExCEL and is a homeschool mom.   “It’s great to get kids involved & excited.  An awesome feeling is when you inspire young adults to make a difference.  They are always so intrigued about me; a little gal, playing with BIG rocks & BIG Machines making a BIG difference.”   She is currently authoring Restoration Techniques of the Pacific Northwest.

Mark Vander Meer

Mark Vander Meer works part-time with the National Network of Forest Practitioners (NNFP) as the Northern Rockies Regional Coordinator.  In this position Vander Meer promotes the mission of the NNFP by emphasizing workshops and educational opportunities that build a sustainable relationship between forests and people.  He enjoys incubating small businesses that put forest practitioners in the woods.  Professionally, Vander Meer bills himself as a Restoration Ecologist; Forester & Soil Scientist.  He owns several small businesses that emphasize ecological restoration and sustainable forest practices.   Mark operates a small sawmill that uses the “by-products” of his forest restoration efforts.  He also has a native plant nursery that grows riparian shrubs and trees for stream restoration projects.  Check out his websites:  www.nnfp.org, www.vanwild.com, and www.watershedconsulting.com.

Anne Martin

Anne Martin joined American Lands in April 1999 and was promoted to National Field Director in May 2000. As the National Field Director for American Lands, Anne coordinates grassroots organizing across the country.  Anne has extensive experience working on conservation issues with a focus on grassroots organizing, public outreach, and campaign development. Prior to American Lands Anne worked as Outreach Coordinator for the Kettle Range Conservation Group in rural eastern Washington. Her previous work has included Forest Watch Coordinator for the Blue Mountain Native Forest Alliance, and office manager and campaign assistant for LightHawk in Seattle. She is also on the board of directors of The Lands Council in Washington State. She has a Bachelors Degree in Environmental Policy and Assessment from Huxley College of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.