Postfire follow-up: Using the LEAF assessment template: How to help landowners set goals and connect with resources

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Postfire follow-up: Using the LEAF assessment template: How to help landowners set goals and connect with resources

October 3, 2025

Successful wildfire recovery depends on assessing wildfire impacts, determining landscape needs, prioritizing restoration activities and accessing resources. In response to multiple record-setting wildfire seasons, OSU Extension designed a site assessment tool to help professionals and organizations interact with landowners, provide recommendations for restoration activities and connect them with resources. This post-wildfire site assessment tool is a guide to effective communication in initial encounters with landowners. The goals of this site assessment are twofold:
1) Help landowners develop priorities and action-oriented goals for their forest.
2) Connect landowners with the financial, technical and physical resources they need to take action.

Successful wildfire recovery depends on assessing wildfire impacts, determining landscape needs, prioritizing restoration activities and accessing resources. In response to multiple record-setting wildfire seasons, OSU Extension designed a site assessment tool to help professionals and organizations interact with landowners, provide recommendations for restoration activities and connect them with resources. This post-wildfire site assessment tool is a guide to effective communication in initial encounters with landowners. The goals of this site assessment are twofold: 1) Help landowners develop priorities and action-oriented goals for their forest. 2) Connect landowners with the financial, technical and physical resources they need to take action.