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EWP Briefing Papers: Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 88
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Over the last fifteen years, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest have been trying to redevelop their economies to meet new federal land management priorities. Numerous state and federal agencies and nonprofit ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)Over the last several months there has been considerable political controversy in the media over the way that federal forest contract workers are treated. Some contend that part of the problem is that the Forest Service ...
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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, 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, 2009)Investments in ecological restoration play a large role in public and private natural resource management with projects ranging from stream habitat enhancements and fish passage to irrigation canal improvements, riparian ...
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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, 2009)
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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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(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, 2009)Woody Biomass Uses – focused on utilization of residuals from hazardous fuels reduction, forest restoration, commercial timber harvest, forest products manufacturing, and plantation management.
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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)
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2009)Since 1997, the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds has led to over half a billion dollars of investment by state, federal, and private sources in watershed restoration across Oregon1. These projects not only deliver ...
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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, 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, 2010)With the current focus on developing the green economy as a strategy for economic recovery, there has been an increasing emphasis on investing in renewable energy development, energy efficiency, and businesses that ...
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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, 2006)The purpose of this project was to understand the extent of Forest Service contracting with local contractors in New Mexico and with companies that employ guest workers. We also sought to illuminate some of the causes ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)About a decade ago, the USDA Forest Service began to replace sealed bidding processes that required awards to go to the lowest qualified bidder with negotiated contracts that permit the agency to consider best value to the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)Forestry workers in labor-intensive jobs have long been an important, yet under recognized, component of forest management on both public and private lands. These workers perform strenuous, seasonal activities, such as ...
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