LCRI LogoLake County
 Resources Initiative

For a Healthy Economy and a Healthy Environment

About

Our Mission is:

To demonstrate a sustainable approach to natural resources to ensure quality of life for present and future generations.

Our Vision:

  • Promote and share an understanding of the inter-relationships between people and their environment. LCRI believes that by promoting healthy ecosystems, natural resource products can provide economic opportunities to local communities.

  • Develop opportunities for family-wage jobs through ecologically sound and sustainable practices. LCRI is active in educating the work force about economic opportunities that result from managing forests for ecological health, and helping local workers access federal contracting opportunities.

  • Encourage and facilitate new ideas and technologies. LCRI is currently involved in demonstrating new technologies such as small diameter shears, low psi harvesting equipment, and new opportuities such as small diameter wood products.

  • Design and manage resource-based projects and services in the communities of Lake County, Oregon. LCRI is working in several partnerships to provide local employment through benefits to the land--examples include biophysical monitoring, stream restoration, and exploring feasibility for a local co-generation facility.
With close ties to the Lake County Sustainability Working Group and a strong local board of directors, LCRI is taking action to promote a strong economy based on a healthy, thriving environment.

 

Our Accomplishments

  • Reauthorization of the Sustained Yield Unit with assistance from regional and national environmental groups.
  • Assisted 10 contractors to obtain HUB Zone Certification - creating access to new federal contracting opportunities.
  • Received Forest Service funding to carry out a first-of-its-kind program to monitor restoration projects in the Fremont National Forest.
  • Worked with the Fremont National Forest to set aside $270,000 in contracts for local preference.
  • Entered into a partnership with the University of Washington to explore the feasibility of operating a local facility that would use waste wood (including juniper, which has invaded thousands of acres locally) and geothermal energy to create electrical power.
  • Trained 12 contractors to prepare successful bids and do business with the federal government.