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Ashland, Oregon

The town whose wildfire plan runs on our LiDAR.

For the City of Ashland we flew about 4,300 acres across the city in 2024, delivered canopy height, ladder fuels and three structure exposure measures into the city's GIS, and classed 30,226 Douglas fir crowns by health across the watershed lands. The 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan names the company and draws its numbers from this data.

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The ground

Ashland and Jackson County

Ashland climbs from Bear Creek into the Siskiyous: the plaza and the university on the valley floor, neighbourhoods up the draws, and above them the Ashland Creek watershed that feeds Reeder Reservoir and the city's water. The watershed is Douglas fir and mixed conifer that has been dying in patches since the drought years, and it is where the Ashland Forest Resiliency partners have been thinning and burning for over a decade. Mount Ashland stands at the top of it all.

Who buys mapping here

  • City of Ashland: Fire and Rescue, Public Works, Parks, the Electric utility and the GIS staff who already work from our layers
  • Ashland Parks and Recreation Commission and the parks and trails in the interface
  • The Ashland Forest Resiliency partners: the city, the Rogue River Siskiyou National Forest, Lomakatsi Restoration Project and The Nature Conservancy
  • Southern Oregon University and its grounds
  • Talent and Phoenix next door, rebuilding after the Almeda fire
  • Homeowner associations on the hillside neighbourhoods and the defensible space programs that serve them

Getting there

From Medford

Twenty minutes from Medford. The Ashland watershed is the stand we know best.

The public lidar

What exists, and what it misses

Ashland does not have to rely on the public lidar any more: the city holds the 2024 citywide dataset we flew, classified and delivered, and the 2023 and 2024 crown health layers. The next question is change: the same ground flown again to show what the treatments and the removals did, and what died since.

What we would fly

The lanes that fit Ashland

Infrared heat map over a lake and forest: heat perimeter, isolated heat points classed by temperature, and 50, 100, and 200 foot mopup buffers.
Wildland Fire
Post harvest assessment map for the Oregon Department of Forestry: downed woody debris volume by decay class in one acre cells, with species of standing trees.
Forestry
Orthomosaic of a creek corridor through Phoenix, Oregon, clipped to the project area.
Property

Every service

Everything we do, in Ashland

  • Wildfire fuels and CWPP support Start here

    Canopy height, ladder fuels and structure exposure for a Community Wildfire Protection Plan, citywide when the plan needs it.

  • Tree inventory and canopy Start here

    Every crown in a city, a park system or a campus, with height, species and health, checked against trees on the ground.

  • Forestry Start here

    Stand inventory, species and health classes, downed woody debris counted and measured from the air, post harvest monitoring.

  • GIS consulting and data

    Hosted data, web maps and dashboards, Survey123 field apps, scripted reporting, and the cleanup of the data you already have.

  • Drone LiDAR

    Bare earth under the canopy, contours, surface and canopy height models, classified point clouds and line corridors, PPK controlled and checked.

  • Rivers, riparian and habitat

    Species along a river corridor, wetlands and habitat, cold water seeps found with thermal, and baselines for restoration work.

  • Night infrared on active fires

    Heat perimeters and hotspots in the incident team’s hands before the morning briefing. The pipeline that builds the package runs at the UAS Wildland Fire Collaborative, the nonprofit we founded.

  • Farm planning

    Terrain, drainage low points, slope and sun, canopy, and plan overlays drawn on a current orthomosaic of the whole farm.

  • Property and site design

    Design ready contours, tree points and surface models, in the formats and coordinate system the engineer specifies.

  • Multispectral imaging

    Five calibrated bands, vegetation indices, and species and health classification with its accuracy reported.

  • Thermal infrared

    A calibrated temperature in every pixel, flown as a mapping mission: fire heat classified in degrees, prescribed fire mortality, cold water seeps.

  • Federal and agency work

    Fire infrared, LiDAR on abandoned mine lands and forest data for federal land managers. Registered in SAM.gov.

Nearest work

The Ashland work, and the planting corridor two towns down the creek.

Ladder fuel classification in a LiDAR point cloud on a Medford demonstration property, with a ground photo of the stand inset.

Forestry 2024 to 2025

Citywide LiDAR for the Ashland CWPP

City of Ashland

Citywide drone LiDAR that gave the 2025 Ashland Community Wildfire Protection Plan its ladder fuel and structure exposure numbers.

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Douglas fir crowns colored by health class over the Ashland watershed orthomosaic.

Forestry 2023 to 2024

At risk, declining, dieback, dead

City of Ashland

About 30,000 Douglas fir crowns classed by health across the city's watershed lands, so the city could see the die off and act on it.

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Overview of the Bear Creek corridor through Phoenix from the June 2025 LiDAR: the greenway, the creek, and the highway with the young planting in place.

Property 2025

A planting corridor through Phoenix, tree by tree

City of Phoenix

The year one record for 98 trees the city planted where the Almeda fire burned through Phoenix, from drone LiDAR and RGB flown 65 days after planting.

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The record

Every project we have published

Forestry and trees

Rivers and habitat

Wildfire fuels and planning

Night infrared on fires

Terrain and site design

Farm planning

Ashland, the next flight.

The watershed again to measure the change, a park or a campus inventory, or the hillside neighbourhoods structure by structure. Tell us which and we will plan it.

Talk to Eli

Email info@roguerecon.net or call 808 298 6290.