Sustainable Northwest is collaborating with regional partners to address landscape scale restoration across multiple rural communities in eastern Oregon and northern California. 

This five-year initiative aims to increase the health of forested landscapes and the vitality of the communities, businesses, and wood products entrepreneurs within the Dry Forest Investment Zone.  

The Dry Forest Investment Zone consists of 15 counties across eastern Oregon and northern California that share similar socio-economic challenges such as poor market conditions for wood products, and high levels of poverty and unemployment.  

The landscape of the zone is primarily dry forests of pine and mixed conifer that are at risk of fire and drought. 68% of the land is federally managed with many communities in close proximity to national forest land depending on the health and productivity of these forest landscapes (link to Healthy Forests).   To learn more about about the program and our partners, visit the Dry Forest Investment Zone Program page on our website.