Project Partners
The Understory Initiative is honored to work with the businesses and organizations represented below to restore understory ecosystems in Southern Oregon and beyond.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission is, working with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.
bureau of land management
The Bureau of Land Management's mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
U.S. Forest Service
The motto “Caring for the Land and Serving People” describes the Forest Service’s mission to achieve quality land management under the sustainable multiple-use management concept to meet the diverse needs of people.
Rogue Native Plant Partnership
The mission of the Rogue Native Plant Partnership is to facilitate diverse resilient ecosystems in tandem with a more robust native plant materials economy in the Rogue Basin by taking on many of the challenges in the native plant procurement process.
Understory Consulting LLC
Understory Consulting is TUI’s for-profit sister organization. They provide ecological consulting and restoration services to a variety of land managers in Oregon and have a strong commitment to native plant community restoration and conservation.
Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center
The Oregon State University Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Extension Program promotes improvements in the economic, environmental and social wel Servicel being of Oregonians.
The Selberg Institute
The mission of the Selberg Institute is to help conserve the unique ecosystems of the greater Cascade-Siskiyou landscape through land stewardship, advocacy, education, and scientific research.
Fresh Energy
Fresh Energy’s mission is to shape and drive realistic, visionary energy policies that benefit all. Together we are working toward a vision for an economy we thrive in and energy that ensures our well-being.
natural resource conservation service
NRCS is an agency committed to “helping people help the land”—its mission is to provide resources to farmers and landowners to aid them with conservation. Ensuring productive lands in harmony with a healthy environment is the NRCS’ priority.
Rogue Basin Partnership
Rogue Basin Partnership aims to empower integrated landscape-scale restoration across the ecologically unique 3.3-million-acre Rogue River Basin.
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy
SOLC’s work is complex, but their mission is simple: to protect and enhance precious land in the Rogue River region to benefit our human and natural communities.
Oregon Chapter of The Wildlife Society
Founded by Aldo Leopold, The Wildlife Society is dedicated to wildlife stewardship through science and education. The mission of the Oregon chapter is to promote wise conservation and management of wildlife resources in Oregon by serving and representing wildlife professionals.
J. Herbert Stone Nursery
The J. Herbert Stone Nursery is the largest of six nurseries in the US Forest Service system and supplies native plants and seeds to federal agencies of western united states.
Oregon Birding Association
The mission of the Oregon Birding Association is to further knowledge, education, enjoyment and science about birds and birding in Oregon.
Klamath Siskiyou Oak Network
The Klamath Siskiyou Oak Network is a collaborative regional partnership to conserve oak habitats on private and public lands in southern Oregon and northern California. Oak habitats are some of the most biodiverse habitats in our region, providing ecological as well as cultural benefits to humans and wildlife.
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians is a federally recognized confederation of more than 27 Native American tribes and bands who once inhabited an extensive homeland of more than 20 million acres from northern California to southwest Washington and between the summit of the Cascades and the Pacific Ocean.
Friends of Cascade Siskiyou National Monument
Friends of CSNM work to inspire people to protect, conserve, and restore the Monument and to increase awareness of its unique biological diversity, landscape, and cultural history. They achieve this through service, advocacy and education.
