Organized by Lomakatsi Restoration Project
Lomakatsi’s Ashland Watershed Youth Training Program
Support Lomakatsi Restoration Project’s
Ashland Watershed Youth Training & Employment Program
Lomakatsi needs your help to inspire the next generation of ecosystem stewards! For over 15 years, we’ve recruited up to twenty high school aged youth from around the Rogue Valley to work in the woods each summer, restoring ecosystems and learning about related career paths. The experience has been life changing for past participants, and many have gone on to work as natural resource specialists.
Due to federal funding freezes, the program is short on funding this year. With your help, together we can inspire a new group of local youth to steward the land, showing them a path forward to a better future for themselves and their community.
It takes $350 per day per youth to run the program. This covers all the costs for training, travel, management, and most importantly, participant wages—after all, this is a summer job where they learn and work in an outdoor classroom.
If you can support one youth for one day, it would be very appreciated. Any amount helps.
This year, we plan to offer the 13th Ashland Watershed Youth Training & Employment Program from June 23 – July 17, 2025. With your help, we’ll be able to serve a full crew of 20 local high school students!
How you can help:
- Donate: Every dollar counts. Contribute now to help us reach our goal.
- Share: Share our campaign with your friends, family, and on social media.
- Keep in Touch: For larger and foundation gifts, or other ways to donate, please reach out to us.
Your tax-deductible donation empowers local youth to play an active role in collaborative ecosystem health and community wildfire risk reduction projects at beloved natural areas such as the Ashland Watershed and Table Rocks.
As Lomakatsi celebrates our 30th anniversary, we reflect with gratitude on all the incredible support from the community over the years as together we create resume-boosting opportunities for local students and inspire a life-long appreciation for the natural world. Thank you for supporting local youth!
Hear from past program participants:
“This program impacted my life by really giving me a passion towards wildlife biology and discovery, and a deep fascination with the world around us.” - Josephine Ellison, North Medford High School, 2024 Program Alum
“I think [the program] really changed everything—I'm in college now for Forestry. It convinced me to go for it because being able to do that program, it showed me what I wanted to do and what I really felt good about doing.” - Danny Espinosa, South Medford High School, 2023 Program Alum
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