Bend, Oregon
Pine country, where the town and the forest share a fence.
Bend grew into the ponderosa pine faster than anywhere in Oregon, and the Deschutes National Forest, the fire districts and Project Wildfire have been working the interface for twenty years. We bring the fuels mapping behind the Ashland plan, night infrared on the incidents, and terrain for the ground the towns keep growing onto.
The ground
Bend and Deschutes County
The Deschutes runs through town between lava and pine. West are the Three Sisters and the Deschutes National Forest; east the juniper and sage of the high desert; north, Redmond, Sisters and Terrebonne; south, Sunriver and La Pine in the lodgepole. Nearly every neighbourhood on the west side backs onto forest, and the fire history of the last twenty years is written on the hills in view of town.
Who buys mapping here
- City of Bend, City of Redmond, City of Sisters, La Pine and Sunriver
- Deschutes County: Forestry, Emergency Management, the Community Development GIS, and Project Wildfire
- Bend Park and Recreation District
- Bend Fire and Rescue, Redmond Fire and Rescue, Sisters Camp Sherman Fire District, Sunriver Fire
- The Deschutes National Forest and the Deschutes Collaborative Forest Project
- Deschutes Land Trust, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, Deschutes Soil and Water Conservation District
- Pacific Power and Central Electric Cooperative
- Oregon State University Cascades, and the resorts and homeowner associations in the pine
Getting there
From Medford
About three and a half hours from Medford over the Cascades on Highway 140 and up 97. We stage out of Bend or Redmond for several days at a time.
The public lidar
What exists, and what it misses
Central Oregon's public lidar is patchy compared with the west side: parts flown for the Forest Service and the state, parts not, most of it older than the subdivisions. For a fire district or a homeowners association that wants structure exposure numbers, or a park district that wants a tree inventory, a current drone flight of the planning area is the honest starting point.
What we would fly
The lanes that fit Bend
Nearest work
No Deschutes County job yet. The nearest proof is the Ashland plan's fuels data, a 2026 incident flown night after night, and a watershed's conifers classed by health.
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.
Read the case
East Evans Creek, a season inside one fire
Oregon Department of Forestry
Fifteen nights on one incident across three weeks, eight divisions, and a heat map in the GIS specialist's hands before the morning briefing.
Read the case
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.
Read the caseThe record
Every project we have published
Forestry and trees
- Downed woody debris, measured from the air
- Finding every Oregon ash before the borer does
- At risk, declining, dieback, dead
- Post harvest monitoring for ODF
- A planting corridor through Phoenix, tree by tree
Rivers and habitat
- Riparian species and cold seeps on the Scott River
- Ten abandoned mines, bare earth under the chaparral
Wildfire fuels and planning
Night infrared on fires
- Night infrared on ODF incidents since 2019
- East Evans Creek, a season inside one fire
- Fielder Mountain, eleven nights as the heat went out
- Woodrat Mountain, from initial attack to the last check
- Interstate 5 at milepost 57, initial attack beside the freeway
- Tyee Ridge Complex
Terrain and site design
Farm planning
Bend, before the season or during it.
A planning area to map structure by structure, a park or campus inventory, or a resource order on an incident. Send the ground and the date.
Email info@roguerecon.net or call 808 298 6290.