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EWP Briefing Papers: Recent submissions
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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, 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, 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 ...
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(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. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)In 2012, Congress authorized the Integrated Resource Restoration (IRR) budget line item, which consolidates previously separated budget line items into a single funding stream to support integrated restoration planning ...
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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 resources outside the agency to maintain adequate wildfire response capacity. Reliance on private wildfire ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Wood is one of the most abundant and versatile renewable energy sources in the United States. Heat and electricity can be generated from low-value woody material such as small trees, tree limbs, brush, and wood waste at ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Water utilities benefit from ecosystem services that improve water quality and moderate stream temperatures, such as the natural filtration and shading services provided by riparian forests. Such benefits have brought ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an emerging conservation strategy that provides economic incentives for the protection of ecosystem services that benefit society, such as the provision of clean air, clean water, ...
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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, 2014)The McKenzie River Watershed provides the sole source of drinking water to residents of Eugene, but increasing residential development could impact water quality. To protect drinking water quality, the Eugene Water and ...
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(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 ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Forest restoration is a priority for the U.S. Forest Service, but many have argued that the agency is constrained in meeting restoration objectives by its budget structure. In 2012, Congress approved on a pilot basis the ...
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(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, ...
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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, 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 ...
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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, 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 ...
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(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 ...
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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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