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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)Many rural communities across the U.S. West were profoundly affected by economic and policy changes in the 1990s and early 2000s. Sudden shifts in federal land policies, restructuring of forestry and agriculture industries, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)Many communities in the rural western United States seek the ecological, economic, and social wellbeing and resilience of their people and landscapes. In Harney County, Oregon, several community collaborative groups ...
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Contract and Federal Wildland Firefighters: a Review of Local Opportunity, Job Quality, and Safety (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)The National Fire Plan was set in motion after the intense fire season of 2000. One of the goals of the Plan is “assuring that necessary firefighting resources and personnel are available to respond to wildland fires that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022)
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Across multiple presidential administrations, forest and watershed restoration has become an increasingly important focus of the USDA Forest Service. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, for example, has made restoring ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Over the past century, wildland fire management has been core to the mission of federal land management agencies. In recent decades, however, federal spending on wildfire suppression has increased dramatically; suppression ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)In 2018, in response to Congress’ calls for a renewed approach to forest management, the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) announced the Shared Stewardship Strategy - an initiative aimed at increasing the pace and scale of ...
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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, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to examine the business assistance and economic development activities that community-based organizations (CBOs) undertake in rural public lands contexts in the U.S. West. We conducted three ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)The Dry Forest Investment Zone (DFIZ) is an area of fifteen counties that share common economic development and forest management challenges. The ability of communities and service providers to capture, leverage, and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Forest and watershed restoration work is closely tied to the history and identity of Oregon’s South Coast, which has long relied on its woods and waters for forestry, fishing, agriculture, and sustenance. Declines in ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The USDA Forest Service (Forest Service) has implemented several initiatives to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration on national forests east of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington. Collectively, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)This paper is an assessment of a three year demonstration project to test the possibilities of community forestry for community development. The demonstration actively promotes community forestry in four rural Oregon ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Large wildfires have lasting socioeconomic effects on communities located near the fires. Wildfires can unite and divide communities over fire management and recovery, and magnify or create inequities. . . . The purpose ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)The Integrated Resource Restoration (IRR) budgetary approach, which has been implemented on a pilot basis in the Northern, Southwestern, and Intermountain Regions since fiscal year 2012, is meant to facilitate holistic and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)At the request of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), we are conducting a third-party review of the Integrated Resource Restoration (IRR) budgetary approach, which has been implemented on a pilot basis for three years in USFS ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)This study considers how the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service and Rural Development Business and Cooperative Service (RDBCS) invested in Oregon between 2007–11. The Forest Service is a land ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Over the past two decades, there has been a rise in organized “forest collaborative” groups of multiple stakeholders meeting regularly for dialogue about forest management priorities on a given area of national forest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)After a century of wildfire suppression, the costs and complexity of wildfire management are increasing. Population growth in fire-prone landscapes, climate change, and diverse land management objectives all contribute ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Although wildfire costs are commonly discussed in natural resource policy and research, how wildfire suppression spending affects local economies has received relatively little attention. Wildfires can have multiple ...
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