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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Part of year three of "The Forest Service and Communities: The Relationships Between Land and People in the Pacific Northwest Region" [Ecosystem Workforce Program Working Paper #72]. This document is one of three products ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)This is a joint project between the US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region and the University of Oregon Ecosystem Workforce Program. This project aims to help the Forest Service and its partners better understand ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)Year 2 report for "The Forest Service and Communities: The Relationships Between Land and People in the Pacific Northwest Region" [Ecosystem Workforce Program Working Paper #72]. This is a joint project between the U.S. ...
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The Forest Service and partnerships : cross-boundary collaboration in the Pacific Northwest region (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Part of year three of "The Forest Service and Communities: The Relationships Between Land and People in the Pacific Northwest Region" [Ecosystem Workforce Program Working Paper #72]. This document is one of three products ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Since the 1970s, federal spending on wildfire suppression in the United States has grown, reaching $1 billion annually over the past decade. The USDA Forest Service has also increasingly used private contractors to ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Federal spending on wildfire suppression in the United States has grown over the past decade, but outside of land management agencies, little is known about how funds are spent, which activities are contracted out, and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to examine similarities and differences between treatment of forest workers and small and disadvantaged businesses performing the same work in Oregon: a.) under existing federal pathways for ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)Over the last several months there has been considerable political controversy in the media over the way that federal forest contract workers are treated. Some contend that part of the problem is that the Forest Service ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)The purpose of this document is to introduce the reader to the U.S. Forest Service’s iconic places and to provide basic information about the values they protect, their conditions, their management practices, and the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)The US Forest Service manages over 7 million acres of areas protected either by Congress through legislation or by the Executive Branch via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These sites are singled ...
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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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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)As accelerated restoration initiatives continue, stakeholders are interested in understanding how investments affect local economies and communities. The economic benefit of accelerated restoration investments in local ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) will help national forests assess and prioritize activities, and measure progress towards improved watershed condition. The USDA Forest Service also expects restoration to create ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Restoration contracts and timber sales on national forests and grasslands can generate economic activity and social benefits in nearby communities. The extent to which local communities realize these benefits depends ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)As the concept of resilience has gained importance as a guiding principle in land management objectives and policies in recent years, there has been some question about how the concept is operationalized in forest planning ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)Through a Joint Fire Science-funded research project, we investigated the concept of resilience as a means of constructively living with disturbances such as fire and insect outbreaks on national forest lands, including ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)In January 2013, the Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service initiated the Eastside Restoration Strategy to improve forest health conditions by accelerating the pace and scale of restoration on national forests ...
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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, 2012)The USDA Forest Service has emphasized how forest and watershed restoration can support jobs and economic development. However, the Forest Service currently has few performance measures to track the socioeconomic outcomes ...
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