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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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 2001)We are promoting healthy forest ecosystems and high wage, high skill jobs in natural resources in Lake County. We have created a unique coalition to work towards this goal and we have learned several lessons along the way.
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)Congress and President Obama designed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) to preserve and create jobs, assist people in need, stabilize state and local government budgets, and invest in infrastructure and ...
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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, 2010)
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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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(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, 2010)In Oregon, community-based organizations have become major agents of watershed restoration. The most common of these organizations are watershed councils, which began to emerge in the mid-1990s as the State of Oregon ...
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The money doesn't deliver itself : the importance of intermediaries in ecosystem services programs (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) and conservation programs that compensate landowners improve the resilience of working lands by creating markets for services such as clean air and water, carbon sequestration, and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)Congress and President Obama designed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) to preserve and create jobs, assist people in need, and stabilize state and local government budgets. The Act also directs federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)In response to growing concerns around the management and implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Pacific Northwest Research Station and Ecosystem Management Coordination in the Washington ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Community-based organizations (CBOs) in Oregon are fostering natural resource management and economic development, particularly in public lands communities where the capacity of federal agencies, businesses, and others ...
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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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