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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Fish recovery in rivers depends on sufficient instream flows to maintain water quality and habitat. In many areas, water rights for agriculture present direct competition for these flows, and “use it or lose it” water ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)As the concepts of ecosystem services and payments for ecosystem services (PES) have gained in popularity, numerous web-based resources have been created to 1) provide and exchange information about ecosystem services, ...
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(Corvallis: OSU Press, 2007)Years of drought and decades of aggressive fire exclusion have left North American forests at high risk for catastrophic fires. Forest settings are a magnet for recreation and for rapidly growing residential ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)This report summarizes the results of the Oakridge Air community key informant (or community leader) interviews on air quality and smoke. This research was conducted as a pilot project to discern community understanding, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)Smoke from wildland fire presents a serious and growing concern. Mirroring global trends in recent decades, many areas of the US are experiencing increasing wildfire size, severity, and frequency. The health hazard of ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Forest and watershed restoration on national forests and grasslands has ecological, social, and economic objectives. Forest Service performance measures have largely focused on outputs associated with land treatments, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Forest and watershed restoration on national forests and grasslands has ecological, social, and economic objectives. Forest Service performance measures have largely focused on outputs associated with land treatments, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)The forest plan revision process presents an opportunity for managers to reorient a national forest’s management direction in pursuit of resilient landscapes, among other goals. It also represents an opportunity for ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)Recent federal forest and wildfire policies have increasingly united around a vision of restoring resilient landscapes in the face of increasingly destructive wildfires driven by altered forest conditions and climate change. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) has proposed nearly $40 million in watershed restoration projects for state and federal stimulus funding. OWEB’s investments in ecological restoration play a large role in ...
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(2010-03)The Klamath Basin of southern Oregon and northern California is rich in history, culture, and natural resources. This report explores how the local communities and natural resources of the Klamath Basin are expected to ...
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(2009-03)In the fall of 2008, the University of Oregon’s Climate Leadership Initiative (CLI) and the National Center for Conservation Science & Policy (NCCSP), in partnership with the Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil-System (MAPSS) ...
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(Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2008-02-04)This framework is the result of our research as well as meetings with and feedback from experts and stakeholders in four defined sectors that are projected to be affected in various ways and degrees by climate change in ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)We are conducting a project investigating policies that limit managers’ ability to conduct prescribed fire on US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in the 11 Western states. Our primary objectives ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Large wildfires can affect communities in many ways. For the city of Raton, New Mexico, the 2011 Track Fire posed a significant threat to the city’s municipal watershed. Despite significant pre-suppression work to treat ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)The U.S. Forest Service is facing unprecedented challenges in wildfire suppression, and increasingly depends on private wildfire suppression to bolster capacity for direct attack resources, such as aerial resources, ...
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(U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2001)Natural resource conflicts have resulted in attempts at better collaboration between public and private sectors. The resulting partnerships approach collaboration either by problem solving through better information and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2000-03)The following proceedings of the March 2000 Ecosystem Workforce Forum represent a milestone event in a series of Forums since 1996. The purpose of the March 2000 Forum was to reflect on the progress that we have made ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations based in rural communities that work on both local economic development and natural resource stewardship. CBOs were established in many places across the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The US Forest Service primarily engages the private sector through service contracts, stewardship contracts, and timber sales. Both stewardship project and timber sales can generate commercially valuable wood products, ...
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