EWP Other Publications (formerly: Miscellaneous EWP Publications)

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    Economic development and sustainable forest stewardship in the Dry Forest Zone : a mid-term report
    (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012) Davis, Emily Jane
    The Dry Forest Zone (DFZ) project is a fiveyear collaborative effort to foster an integrated approach to forest stewardship and economic development in eastern Oregon and northern California. The DFZ project invests in enhancing a range of capacities for community-based natural resource management at multiple scales. By working simultaneously at different geographic, social and institutional levels, the DFZ project creates and connects enabling conditions for transformative change. At the mid-point of this project, the DFZ team and partners have achieved important gains and learned valuable lessons.
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    Socioeconomic assessment of Forest Service American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects : eight case studies
    (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2011-05) Charnley, Susan; Jakes, Pamela J.; Schelhas, John; Burns, Samuel Alexander; Dietrich, James E.; Davis, Emily Jane; Moseley, Cassandra; Kershner, Jessica M.; Mattor, Katherine; Morse, Wayde; Sturtevant, Victoria Elmore, 1950-; Wilson, Thurman; Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aimed to create jobs and jumpstart the economy while addressing the Nation’s social and environmental needs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, received $1.15 billion in recovery funding to support projects in wildland fire management, capital improvement and maintenance, and biomass utilization. This volume contains eight individual case-study reports that describe how Forest Service economic recovery projects from around the United States are contributing to socioeconomic well-being in rural communities and investigates how forest restoration, conservation, and rural community development goals can be linked to promote healthy forests and healthy communities. Research findings demonstrate that these projects met several goals of the act: (1) preserve and create jobs and stimulate economic recovery; (2) assist those most impacted by the recession; and (3) invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure for long-term economic benefits. A companion synthesis report contains key findings and lessons learned by comparing the eight case studies presented here.
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    The State of the Dry Forest Zone and its Communities
    (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010-04) Davis, Emily Jane; Moseley, Cassandra; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Abrams, Jesse; Brady, Cullen; Christoffersen, Nils; Davis, Chad; Enzer, Maia J.; Gordon, Josef; Goulette, Nick; Jungwirth, Lynn; Jungwirth, Jim; Kauffman, Marcus; McCarthy, Tyler; Shannon, Patrick; Sundstrom, Shiloh
    The Dry Forest Zone is a region of eastern Oregon and northern California with challenging market conditions and high levels of poverty and unemployment. However, local entrepreneurship, collaboration, and commitment to integrated economic development and natural resource management in the zone are strong. In the past decade, the scope of community-based nonprofits, integrated biomass utilization businesses, and new networks has increased, fostering sustainable forest stewardship at an increasingly regional scale. The geography and climate of the zone support dry forests of pine and mixed conifer with fire regimes that are departed from their historical range of variability. These forests are prone to wildfire hazards and in need of active management to restore more diverse and variable-aged structures. As 68 percent of the land in the zone is public, the communities of this region rely on the economic and ecological productivity of these federal forests. The number of sawmills that once provided high levels of primary processing capacity and employment has shrunk to nine mills in the zone. More forest-related employment is now forestry support work, including activities such as firefighting, pest control, and thinning. Poverty and unemployment have increased, with estimated poverty levels in 2007 of over 15 percent in ten of the fifteen counties. Through the Dry Forest Zone project, we have an opportunity to build on the local strengths of this region and overcome these ecological and socioeconomic challenges.