Innovative Jobs-in-the-Woods Projects
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Date
1996
Authors
Taylor, Cynthia H.
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Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon
Abstract
On April 2, 1993, President Clinton convened the Forest Summit in
Portland, Oregon to learn first hand about the environmental, social and
economic ramifications of changes in federal forest management in the
Pacific Northwest. Out of this effort arose the Northwest Economic
Adjustment Initiative (NEAI). The NEAI aims to help workers,
businesses, communities, and tribes that have relied on a forest products -
based economy to adjust to changing economic conditions.
The NEAT addresses four program areas of worker/community
assistance: workers and families, business and industry, communities and infrastructure, ecosystem investment.
The Ecosystem Investment Team (EIT) was formed to address the
ecosystem investment program area. Its mission is to link watershed
restoration activities on federal and non-federal lands to dislocated
workers and their families and to businesses in affected communities in
order to improve social, economic, and environmental outcomes.
Congress asserted that, under the ecosystem investment program, four
federal agencies would redirect approximately $27 million in 1994 to a new program called Jobs in the Woods (JITW). JITW aims to link
priority watershed restoration work with family-wage jobs for dislocated
workers in timber-dependent communities.
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8 p.