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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)The federal government is the largest landowner in many western communities. It can contribute to local socioeconomic vitality by providing opportunities for businesses and partners to perform land management activities ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)This thesis interrogates the transfrontier conservation areas (TFCA) program of southern Africa. Promoted since the mid-1990s as the solution to the vexing problems of environmental degradation and rural development in the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)Many rural communities across the U.S. West were profoundly affected by economic and policy changes in the 1990s and early 2000s. Sudden shifts in federal land policies, restructuring of forestry and agriculture industries, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to examine the business assistance and economic development activities that community-based organizations (CBOs) undertake in rural public lands contexts in the U.S. West. We conducted three ...
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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)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 ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Over the last fifteen years, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest have been trying to redevelop their economies to meet new federal land management priorities. Numerous state and federal agencies and nonprofit ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)This study considers how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and Rural Development Business and Cooperative Service (RDBCS) invested in Oregon between 2007–11. The Forest Service is a land ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Natural resource-based economic development in public lands communities requires robust businesses, a supportive policy environment, and institutions to create local benefits from land management. The United States ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Utilizing woody biomass from public lands may help reduce agency costs, enhance community wildfire protection, and create employment and economic activity. Yet communities adjacent to public land often lack the business ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)From 2005–10, the USDA Forest Service’s Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program provided grants for equipment acquisition and technical assistance to rural businesses and other entities. These grants were intended to ...
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(Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management, University of Oregon, 2008-06)Agriculture remains an important part of the Oregon stateâ s economy, first in terms of volume and second only to high tech in terms of export value and the state of Oregon grows diverse of production and most of the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)The Forest Service faces a long-standing challenge of reporting accomplishments in ways that Congress and the public find compelling. Over the past several years, the Forest Service has made significant improvements to ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)As wildfires are increasing in scale and duration, and communities are increasingly located where these wildfires are occurring, we need a clearer understanding of how large wildfires affect economic and social well ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)The Dry Forest Zone (DFZ) project is a five-year collaborative effort to foster an integrated approach to forest stewardship and economic development in eastern Oregon and northern California. The DFZ project invests in ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFR Program) is a partnership between the state of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase forest restoration and economic opportunity on federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2023)The Federal Forest Restoration (FFR) Program is a joint effort among the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF), federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase the pace, scale, and quality of federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFR Program) is a partnership between the state of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase forest restoration and economic opportunity on federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Oregon’s forest landscapes require active restoration to improve ecological health and to support livelihoods in rural communities. Targeting unmet need on federal forests, the State of Oregon initiated the Federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)The U.S. Forest Service and the State of Oregon continue to commit substantial effort and resources to support restoration on the 11 national forests in Oregon. Notable programs include the Forest Service Eastside ...
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(USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2007-05)This report examines socioeconomic changes that took place between 1990 and 2003 on and around lands managed by the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon to assess the effects of the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) on ...
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