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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)The purpose of this document is to introduce the reader to the U.S. Forest Service’s iconic places and to provide basic information about the values they protect, their conditions, their management practices, and the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)Oregon’s Biomass Producer or Collector (BPC) Tax Credit encourages the production, collection, and transportation of biomass for biofuel production. It helps offset the transportation costs for biomass producers and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Although Oregon’s active forest sector and extensive forests make wood a plentiful source of energy, the costs of handling and transporting woody biomass can be a significant obstacle to increased use of this energy source. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)From 2005–10, the USDA Forest Service’s Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program provided grants for equipment acquisition and technical assistance to rural businesses and other entities. These grants were intended to ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)As accelerated restoration initiatives continue, stakeholders are interested in understanding how investments affect local economies and communities. The economic benefit of accelerated restoration investments in local ...
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Indigenous fire stewardship for fire management and ecological restoration in the Pacific Northwest (Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2023)Indigenous fire stewardship (IFS) plays a critical role in the maintenance of North American forest resilience. This synthesis reviews literature on IFS in the PNW as represented in scholarly peer reviewed publications. We ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)Restoration contracts and timber sales on national forests and grasslands can generate economic activity and social benefits in nearby communities. The extent to which local communities realize these benefits depends ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002)This report examines some of the issues involved in setting up a system for monitoring the socio-economic effects of Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (O-WEB) grants on an on-going basis. We conducted telephone interviews ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2006)This working paper compares the job quality of logging and forestry services, which represent one segment of the forest restoration industry. The forestry services sector includes much of the labor-intensive and some of ...
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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, 2015)The Lakeview Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project (CFLR) was selected for funding in 2012. Multiparty monitoring, evaluation, and accountability are required to assess the positive or negative ecological, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)Through a Joint Fire Science-funded research project, we investigated the concept of resilience as a means of constructively living with disturbances such as fire and insect outbreaks on national forest lands, including ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)In November 2015, the Oregon Board of Forestry proposed the development of a new rule to expand streamside buffers in western Oregon to better protect salmon, steelhead, and bull trout. The proposed rule would affect the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)This document serves as an appendix to the report entitled “Prescribed Fire Policy Barriers and Opportunities: A Diversity of Challenges and Strategies Across the West” [Ecosystem Workforce Program Working Paper #86]. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The purpose of this document is to examine how some organizations have developed local, cross-trained workforces to address wildfire risks alongside intensifying wildfire management needs. We conducted case studies of four ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2003)This report (1) documents changes in Forest Service procurement contracting between the early 1990s and the early 2000s and (2) evaluates whether the authority to consider local benefit when awarding the National Fire Plan ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)As wildfires are increasing in scale and duration, and communities are increasingly located where these wildfires are occurring, we need a clearer understanding of how large wildfires affect economic and social well ...
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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, 2006)In 2003, the Malheur National Forest experimented with innovative contracting mechanisms to carry out fuels reduction work in the Blue Mountains Demonstration Area (BMDA). The BMDA was initiated in June 1999 to test ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFR Program) is a partnership between the state of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase forest restoration and economic opportunity on federal ...
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