• Helping Curry County, Oregon plan for wildfire emergencies and reduce wildfire risks while increasing local employment

• Assessing the performance of the Northwest Forest Plan in providing contracts and jobs to rural Oregon and Washington communities in forest restoration

• Examining how oak savanna restoration can protect communities from wildfire

• Conducting studies to inform people and decision makers in Oregon's Willamette Valley in dealing with rapid population growth while sustaining wildlife habitat, water quality, agriculture, and economic development

• Helping underserved and impoverished rural communities create quality jobs in natural resource restoration and management

• Investigating how the aesthetic consequences of landscape patterns will play out under the Northwest Forest Plan

• Creating of a model for designing and implementing strategies to prepare Oregon's natural, built, human and economic systems to withstand and adapt to climate change.

• Developing of a unique citizen involvement program aimed at engaging individuals in cost-effective household greenhouse gas reductions.

• Working with the USDA Forest Service to implement tribal monitoring of government-to-government relationships under the Northwest Forest Plan.

• Facilitating efforts in the McKenzie Watershed to establish a collaborative stewardship contracting effort.

• Assisting the newly created city of Damascus, Oregon in developing its first comprehensive plan that will conserve water quality, fish and wildlife habitats, and scenic quality while fostering the potential for a green city that may reduce its dependence on the automobile and other forms of energy consumption compared to other cities in the region.

• With support from the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board and in collaboration with Oregon State University, researchers are: measuring the importance of coldwater habitats as stepping stones for salmon, linking the habitats to dynamic river processes, and identifying land owner benefits and concerns to design on-going conservation and restoration efforts in the Willamette River floodplain.