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  • Barriers and preferences for landowner participation in conservation programs in the interior Northwest 
    Gosnell, Hannah; Burright, Harmony S. J.; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)
    Small and medium-sized forest and range landowners have a significant impact on ecosystem health. Conservation programs such as those offered by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and environmentally-oriented ...
  • "Call when needed" : private contracting for wildfire suppression in an unpredictable work environment 
    Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Bixler, R. Patrick (Richard Patrick); Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (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 resources outside the agency to maintain adequate wildfire response capacity. Reliance on private wildfire ...
  • Collaborative landscape restoration on forests without CFLRP or Joint Chiefs' investments 
    Ellison, Autumn; Kooistra, Chad; Schultz, Courtney A.; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)
    In 2017, we studied two restoration initiatives: the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and the Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership (JCLRP). Both programs competitively award multi-year ...
  • Community wildfire protection plans in the American West 
    Abrams, Jesse; Ellison, Autumn; Knapp, Melanie; Moseley, Cassandra; Paveglio, Travis; Nielsen-Pincus, Max (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)
    Large wildfires are increasingly common in the American West. The federal government is responsible for the majority of suppression costs, and has a significant interest in policies that can improve resilience at the ...
  • Cross-trained local capacity for integrated wildfire managment 
    Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)
    The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaborative effort that seeks, in part, to improve multi-jurisdictional coordination of wildfire management and expand local preparedness and response capacity. ...
  • Drivers of wildfire suppression costs : a review 
    Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)
    As federal spending on wildland fire suppression has increased dramatically in recent decades, significant policymaking has been designed, at least in part, to address and temper rising costs. Effective strategies for ...
  • Eco-labels on the range and in the forests of the interior Northwest 
    Gwin, Lauren; Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)
    For more than two decades, advocates have been developing programs to certify products as coming from well-managed lands. However, participation in certification programs is fairly low among landowners in at least some ...
  • The economic effects of large fires : main findings 
    Moseley, Cassandra; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Davis, Emily Jane; Evers, Cody; Ellison, Autumn (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)
    Large wildfires disrupt the lives of families, workers, and employers. However, fire suppression and recovery efforts may provide economic opportunities. Unlike with other natural hazards, there has been little research ...
  • The effect of large wildfires on local labor markets 
    Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Davis, Emily Jane (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)
    Large wildfires can have diverse socioeconomic impacts on nearby communities. Fires may have negative economic impacts on some sectors, but fire suppression efforts may positively affect employment and wages during the ...
  • The effectiveness of biomass policies in supporting business investments in Oregon : preliminary results 
    Abrams, Jesse; Moseley, Cassandra; Ellison, Autumn; Becker, Dennis R.; Kudrna, Jordan (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)
    Wood-based biomass energy plays key roles in Oregon’s wood products economy and in the state’s commitment to renewable energy. The state has developed numerous policies and programs to support biomass energy harvesting, ...
  • Forest Service spending on large wildfires in the West 
    Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra; Evers, Cody; Nielsen-Pincus, Max (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)
    Federal spending on wildfire suppression in the United States has grown over the past decade, but outside of land management agencies, little is known about how funds are spent, which activities are contracted out, and ...
  • From postage stamp to puzzle piece : conservation easement strategy in the interior Northwest 
    Ellison, Autumn; Moseley, Cassandra (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)
    Conservation easements provide a way to permanently commit private land to uses that support ecosystem health. In recent years, both the number of land trusts and the amount of land put into easements has increased ...
  • Iconic places of the US Forest Service : conditions and concerns 
    Ellison, Autumn; Johnduff, Michael (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 ...
  • Land manager experiences with resilience in national forest planning and management 
    Coughlan, Michael R.; Ellison, Autumn; Abrams, Jesse; Huber-Stearns, Heidi (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 ...
  • Lessons learned from the Blue Mountains restoration strategy team 
    Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Santo, Anna; Davis, Emily Jane; Moseley, Cassandra; Ellison, Autumn (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 ...
  • Mobilizing Human Resources for Watershed Restoration 
    MacDonald, Fraser; Moseley, Cassandra; Davis, Emily Jane; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Ellison, Autumn (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 ...
  • A profile of community-based organizations in the U.S. West 
    Abrams, Jesse; Ellison, Autumn; Davis, Emily Jane; Moseley, Cassandra; Nowell, Branda (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 ...
  • A Profile of Forest and Watershed Restoration Contractors 
    Moseley, Cassandra; Nielsen-Pincus, Max; Davis, Emily Jane; Ellison, Autumn; MacDonald, Fraser (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 ...
  • Profiles of fire suppression contracting businesses 
    Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Ellison, Autumn; Molden, Olivia; Neafie, Jessica; Moseley, Cassandra (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 ...
  • Promoting fire-adapted communities : the importance of social diversity in the wildland urban interface 
    Paveglio, Travis; Ellison, Autumn; Abrams, Jesse; Moseley, Cassandra; Carroll, Matthew S. (Matthew Stephen) (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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