The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is donating infrastructure fees from a full week of ticket orders placed Sept. 17-22, 2019,to
Lomakatsi Restoration Project, an Ashland-based non-profit focused on reducing wildfire risks and negative impacts through its restoration projects across thousands of acres of forests and miles of streams. Tickets for the
2019 season are available at
osfashland.org/tickets, by calling 800-219-8161 or by visiting the OSF Box Office at 15 S. Pioneer St.
In recognition of the contributions and heroic efforts that firefighters and their families provide to the safety, health and well-being of Ashland and all Rogue Valley communities, OSF will also now extend existing 15% discounts on theatre ticket orders for active duty U.S military or National Guard members and their immediate families and or veterans of the armed services, to include all
Red Card personnel (firefighters) and their immediate families, for all performances.
“OSF stands with its community, patrons, volunteers, company members and all those whose lives and livelihoods have been affected or remain at risk from the effects and impact of wildfires throughout the entire multistate region,” says OSF Artistic Director Nataki Garrett. “We are committed to serving and collaborating with experienced environmental stewards, including those who do the work of preventing wildfires and acknowledging the incredible impact that firefighters and their families make in responding to these devastating natural disasters.”
In 2010, Lomakatsi partnered with the City of Ashland, The Nature Conservancy, and the US Forest Service Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest to form the
Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project (AFR). The collective’s goal is to reduce the risk of severe wildfire in the watershed and to protect water quality, older forests, wildlife, people, property and quality of life. To date the AFR partnership has treated over 10,000 acres in the forests above Ashland with ecological thinning and prescribed fire.
“For nearly 25 years, Lomakatsi has been building the resilience of communities throughout Oregon and Northern California through forest and watershed restoration,” says Marko Bey, executive director of the Lomakatsi Restoration Project. “These science-based treatments, which include ecological thinning and prescribed fire, create healthier, more resilient forests and decrease the risk of severe wildfire and smoke.”
Lomakatsi’s role in the AFR initiative is to put boots on the ground to implement the work, in addition to providing expertise in project development, planning, management, fine-scale ecological treatment design, and monitoring.