Economic impacts from Blue Mountains national forests restoration : tracking investments in eastern Oregon
| dc.contributor.author | White, Eric M. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bennett, Drew E. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ellison, Autumn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-28T21:37:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-28T21:37:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | 2 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Restoration projects on national forests can have significant economic impacts in addition to the ecological benefits they provide. To better understand the economic impact of increased restoration in Blue Mountains national forests, we examined timber sales and service contract records for timber harvesting and forest and watershed restoration activities on the forests. We compared economic outcomes from years 2013 and 2014 to baseline years of 2009 through 2012. We found that service contract values and timber sale volumes from the Blue Mountains national forests have increased relative to the baseline, resulting in greater economic activity in eastern Oregon in recent years. In 2014, Blue Mountains restoration projects awarded to eastern Oregon businesses supported more than 1,000 jobs and created more than $195 million in business sales in eastern Oregon. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This publication was supported by funding from the Oregon Department of Forestry and the US Forest Service, Grant #13-DG-11062765-723. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19621 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Fact sheet;4 | en_US |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.title | Economic impacts from Blue Mountains national forests restoration : tracking investments in eastern Oregon | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |