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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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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Fire-adapted communities are those that can effectively reduce risk to private property through community actions while allowing wildfire to play a regenerative role in the local ecosystem. However, little is known about ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and severity across rangelands in the U.S. West. Although fire is a natural component of sagebrush steppe ecosystems, it can also threaten values such as sage-grouse habitat, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)As wildfire has grown, a central challenge has been to develop systems to ensure that suppression resources are in the right place at the right time. As federal agencies increasingly depend on private contracting resources, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)Presents case studies of three community assessment projects and a summary review designed to provide an understanding of the process, benefits and challenges in such assessments, and presents conclusions about conducting ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Severe wildland fire has become one of the most significant resource management challenges that the USDA Forest Service faces. National policy has focused on reducing uncharacteristic fuel loads and wildfire risk. However, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)The Northwest Forest Plan and associated Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative called for the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to assist rural communities with long-term economic development and diversification ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)As woody biomass utilization is developed, it is important to examine social issues in addition to technical and economic ones. This paper reviews existing literature addressing the social issues of woody biomass utilization, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to create immediate job opportunities and stimulate long-term economic growth. The United States Forest Service received approximately $1.15 billion to ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Collaborative groups, community leaders, and others want to increase the socioeconomic impacts of natural resource management. Monitoring can provide data to foster learning and improve socioeconomic conditions. Yet ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010)The Dry Forest Zone of eastern and central Oregon and northern California is a region with high rates of poverty and unemployment, degraded landscapes, and severe wildfire risk. But it also has strong traditions of ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Elevated outbreaks of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) have occurred on national forests across the western U.S. over the past two decades. Resulting widespread tree mortality has affected forest health, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)In 2017, we studied the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP), which was established by Congress in 2009 to provide 8-10 years of funding for collaborative implementation of restoration projects on ...
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