Northwest Forest Plan-- The First Ten Years (1994-2003): Procurement contracting in the affected counties of the Northwest Forest Plan: 12 Years of Change
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Date
2006-01
Authors
Moseley, Cassandra
Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
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USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Abstract
As part of the 10-year socioeconomic monitoring of the Northwest Forest Plan, this report evaluates changes in Forest
Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) procurement contracting between 1990 and 2002 by asking, (1) How much
and what kind of work did the Forest Service and BLM contract during this period, and (2) who received economic benefits
from this procurement contracting? Procurement contracting is a particular focus of the socioeconomic monitoring because
one expectation of the Northwest Forest Plan was that the Forest Service and BLM would create high-skill, high-wage
private sector jobs in public land restoration through contracting to partially offset job losses in timber production, harvesting,
and processing. This report finds that, to the contrary, the Forest Service reduced its contracting of land management
activities on national forests in the Northwest Forest Plan area from a high of $103 million in 1991 to a low of $33 million in
2002. By contrast, BLM spending was fairly constant at just under $20 million annually. Both the Forest Service and the
BLM changed the type of activities that they contracted, shifting from activities associated with intensive forest management
such as tree planting in clearcuts to activities associated with ecosystem management. Contractors located near
national forests and BLM lands and rural communities captured a similar proportion of contracts in both the earlier and later
parts of the study period. However, the significant decline in Forest Service contract spending resulted in considerable
decline in the amount of money flowing to rural communities through contracting. Thus, it is unlikely that federal land
management contracting created a net increase in jobs to replace jobs lost in mills and logging operations in public lands
communities.
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44 p.
Print copies of this title are available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT SD11 .A4557 no. 661; and: SCA OrColl SD11 .A4557 no. 661
Print copies of this title are available through the UO Libraries under the call number: KNIGHT SD11 .A4557 no. 661; and: SCA OrColl SD11 .A4557 no. 661
Keywords
Northwest Forest Plan (U.S.), Monitoring, Procurement contracting, United States. Forest Service, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Ecosystem management, Restoration ecology, Rural communities, Forest management -- Northwest, Pacific