Developing socioeconomic performance measures for the Watershed Condition Framework
| dc.contributor.author | Moseley, Cassandra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Davis, Emily Jane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-07-15T23:14:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-07-15T23:14:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description | 24 pages | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring watershed and forest health the primary objective of the Forest Service. In FY 2012, Congress initiated an integrated resource restoration (IRR) pilot project to align the Forest Service budget with integrated restoration priorities on a trial basis. To foster watershed restoration, in 2010 the Forest Service introduced the Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) program, a comprehensive approach to planning and implementing integrated projects in priority watersheds. This framework promises to help national forests assess watershed health, prioritize restoration and maintenance activities, and measure their progress towards restoration. Using the WCF, the Forest Service should be able to increase the effectiveness of restoration by being more strategic about where and how it works. The WCF’s focus on outcomes should also help demonstrate the costs and benefits of investments in restoration. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This study was made possible with funding from the USDA Forest Service (FS #11-CR-11061800-008). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19036 | |
| 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 | EWP working paper;no. 36 | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Watershed restoration | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Watershed management | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Benchmarking (Management) | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | United States. Forest Service | en_US |
| dc.title | Developing socioeconomic performance measures for the Watershed Condition Framework | en_US |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |