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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, 2019)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congressional legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These ...
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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, 2019)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congressional legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These areas ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congress through legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The purpose of this document is to introduce 46 of the Forest Service’s iconic places and to provide basic information about the values they protect and their histories. These places are found in over 40 different ...
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(Department of Ecology and Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development, State of Washington, 2006-11)In early 2006, Washington’s Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development and Department of Ecology commissioned the Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI) at the University of Oregon to analyze the current and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Oregon’s Biomass Producer or Collector (BPC) Tax Credit encourages the production, collection, and transportation of biomass for biofuel production. It helps offset the transportation costs for biomass producers and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)In recent years, federal and state governments across the United States have sought to foster the development of renewable energy using a variety of policies. One such program is Oregon’s Biomass Producer or Collector ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Although Oregon’s active forest sector and extensive forests make wood a plentiful source of energy, the costs of handling and transporting woody biomass can be a significant obstacle to increased use of this energy source. ...
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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, 2009-02)How can hazardous fuels reduction on national forests best contribute to local job creation? Many rural counties where national forests are located have higher unemployment rates than the nation as a whole. Hazardous fuels ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 1998-09)In the Pacific Northwest, the Jobs in the Woods (JITW) program launched several experiments and projects in communities to provide quality jobs for local residents as part of the restoration efforts. This study examines ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)The goal of this quick guide is to help national forest planners and managers achieve resilient outcomes by clarifying the meaning of resilience and reviewing relevant lessons from recent research. Through research ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2000-09)According to biologists, increasing streamflows in the Pacific Northwest is essential to restore and maintain the populations of salmon and other native fishes. Since agriculture is the principal source of surface water ...
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Indigenous fire stewardship for fire management and ecological restoration in the Pacific Northwest (Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2023)Indigenous fire stewardship (IFS) plays a critical role in the maintenance of North American forest resilience. This synthesis reviews literature on IFS in the PNW as represented in scholarly peer reviewed publications. We ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)This briefing paper builds on the lessons of recent contracting innovations in the Pacific Northwest to offer communities and federal land management agencies information about some of the problems that innovators have ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 1996)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 ...
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