Low-income Senior Defensible Space Program
The Low-income Defensible Space program is open for new applications.
This program provides assistance to property owners who cannot do the work themselves or afford to hire someone else to do the work. UDRC has partnered with Council on Aging of Central Oregon to provide free wildfire fuels reduction services for low-income senior or low-income disabled homeowners within the La Pine Rural Fire Protection District.
Click here for a printable flyer describing the program. Click here to print the mail-in application form. If you need a paper copy of the application form email udrc@udrc.org or call 541-815-1362. A representative from UDRC will assess your property and propose a fuels reduction project to improve your defensible space for a wildfire.
2026 Defensible Space Reimbursement Program
The UDRC 2026 Defensible Space Reimbursement Program opening has been delayed until March 2026. Funding is included in the La Pine Wildfire Mitigation Project grant awarded to Deschutes County from the U.S. Forest Service. Funds will not be available until formal agreements have been approved and funds allocated. The program opening will be announced on the UDRC website and email list.
Burning to Heal Film Festival
Discover Your Forest is hosting the free Burning to Heal Film Festival. The film(s) highlight the use of prescribed fire in southern Oregon communities as a tool for landscape management and healing after wildfire.
The film screening will last an hour followed by 30 minutes of discussion.
Representatives from local forestry and organizations will host tables and share information on forest treatments, prescribed fire, and wildfire preparedness before and after the event.
La Pine – November 4, 6-7:30pm
Free childcare and pizza provided.
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Prineville – November 6, 6-7pm
Refreshments provided.
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For more information contact Discover Your Forest’s Wildland Fire Education Coordinator, Emily Curtis, at emily.curtis@discovernw.org.
ODF Small Forestland Grant Request for Proposals
ODF was allocated $2.5 million dollars through House Bill 5020 for the Small Forestland Grant Program. This was a new project funding allocation directs the Oregon Department of Forestry to administer a grant program for the purpose of providing competitively awarded grants to support small forestland owners’ properties by reducing wildfire risk and creating resiliency on the landscape. Click here for more information about the program. Project application must be submitted by November 24, 2025. Watch the video with information about filling out the application
