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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)The Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon is conducting a three year demonstration project to test the possibilities of collaborative stewardship for community development. Key to this is a monitoring ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)This paper will examine the dominant method of coping with this question, the method that is called the rational planning model. Specifically, it will address how this model has been applied to federal forestry planning. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)This paper is an assessment of a three year demonstration project to test the possibilities of community forestry for community development. The demonstration actively promotes community forestry in four rural Oregon ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)Reports the findings of a joint study by the Organization for Economic Initiatives, Inc. (OEI) and the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon (UO). OEI is an Oregon 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002)This report examines some of the issues involved in setting up a system for monitoring the socio-economic effects of Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (O-WEB) grants on an on-going basis. We conducted telephone interviews ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002)This report is the result of a preliminary literature review to understand the state of the value-added forest products industry in Oregon and how it has changed over the last two decades. The first section describes the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002-12)The National Fire Plan (NFP) seeks to increase fire suppression capabilities, reduce fire hazards, restore fire-adapted ecosystems, and create economic benefit for rural communities and businesses. In Title IV of the 2001 ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2003)This report (1) documents changes in Forest Service procurement contracting between the early 1990s and the early 2000s and (2) evaluates whether the authority to consider local benefit when awarding the National Fire Plan ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2004-04)This report focuses on a specific set of questions developed with three BLM districts to begin shedding light on some local parts of the larger procurement issues. Coos Bay, Eugene and Lakeview District BLM mangers, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)Forestry workers in labor-intensive jobs have long been an important, yet under recognized, component of forest management on both public and private lands. These workers perform strenuous, seasonal activities, such as ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)This working paper compares the job quality of logging and forestry services, which represent one segment of the forest restoration industry. The forestry services sector includes much of the labor-intensive and some of ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)This report is designed as a tool to develop strategies to increase the local economic benefit from forest and watershed restoration activities in the Siuslaw Basin. This information can be used as a background information ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)In 2003, the Malheur National Forest experimented with innovative contracting mechanisms to carry out fuels reduction work in the Blue Mountains Demonstration Area (BMDA). The BMDA was initiated in June 1999 to test ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)
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Contract and Federal Wildland Firefighters: a Review of Local Opportunity, Job Quality, and Safety (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)The National Fire Plan was set in motion after the intense fire season of 2000. One of the goals of the Plan is “assuring that necessary firefighting resources and personnel are available to respond to wildland fires that ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)The purpose of this project is to gain a better understanding about how the Forest Service uses best value and government estimates in contract awards. Specifically, this paper analyzes evaluation criteria and proposal- rating ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)In this paper, we review the literature to shed light on the social dynamics associated with the utilization of woody biomass generated from forests managed for timber products and other social and ecological values. Our ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)The purpose of this report is to provide information about various approaches that the Forest Service, BLM, and their partners have used to create large restoration programs using stewardship contracts and agreements. These ...
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