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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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(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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(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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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)Over the past fifteen years, natural resource management on federal and private lands and streams has shifted toward restoration of ecological functions. I n addition to federal land management agencies, community-based ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)Federal agencies are increasingly relying on contracts to respond to wildfire. Although present since the 1970s, private equipment contractors have come to play an important role following extreme fire seasons in the ...
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