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Coughlan, Michael R.; Downey, Jess; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Serio, Naomi; Smith, Hollie
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2024)
This report summarizes the results of a 2024 Oakridge Air community survey on air quality and smoke from wildfire and woodstoves. This community survey was informed by interviews conducted with community leaders to identify ...
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Serio, Naomi; Coughlan, Michael R.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Santo, Anna; McEvoy, Andy, 1987-; White, Eric M.
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2023)
The Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Landscape
Resiliency Program (LRP) is a grant program to support cross-boundary restoration
of landscape resiliency and fuels reduction within
Oregon. In fall 2021, ODF requested ...
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Serio, Naomi; Coughlan, Michael R.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Santo, Anna
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2022)
The Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Landscape
Resiliency Program (LRP) is a grant program to support cross-boundary restoration of landscape
resiliency and fuels reduction within Oregon. In
fall 2021, ODF requested ...
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Coughlan, Michael R.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Clark, Benjamin; Deak, Alison
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)
Oregon Health Authority and the University of Oregon partnered to conduct a
survey-based evaluation of wildfire smoke communications and impacts experienced
by Oregon residents during the 2020 wildfire season. The purpose ...
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Davis, Emily Jane
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)
Oregon’s State Wood Energy Team (SWET) is a state-level network supported by the United States Forest Service and led by Oregon Department of Forestry. The purpose of the SWET is to bring together experts in biomass energy ...
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University of Oregon. Ecosystem Workforce Program; Kaplowitz, Grace; Deak, Alison; Coughlan, Michael; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Smith, Hollie; Shafer, Autumn
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)
This report summarizes the results of the Oakridge Air community key informant (or community leader) interviews on air quality and smoke. This research was conducted as a pilot project to discern community understanding, ...
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Ellison, Autumn; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Frederick, Stacey Sargent; Coughlan, Michael R.; McCaffrey, Sarah; Olsen, Christine S.
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)
Smoke from wildland fire presents a serious
and growing concern. Mirroring global
trends in recent decades, many areas of the
US are experiencing increasing wildfire size, severity,
and frequency. The health hazard of ...
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Moseley, Cassandra; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)
Forest and watershed restoration on national
forests and grasslands has ecological, social,
and economic objectives. Forest Service
performance measures have largely focused on
outputs associated with land treatments, ...
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Abrams, Jesse; Greiner, Michelle; Timberlake, Thomas; Schultz, Courtney A.; Evans, Alexander M.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)
The forest plan revision process presents an
opportunity for managers to reorient a national
forest’s management direction in pursuit of resilient
landscapes, among other goals. It also represents
an opportunity for ...
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Schultz, Courtney A.; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; McCaffrey, Sarah; Quirke, Douglas; Ricco, Gwen; Moseley, Cassandra
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)
We are conducting a project investigating
policies that limit managers’ ability
to conduct prescribed fire on US Forest
Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in
the 11 Western states. Our primary objectives ...
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Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Bixler, R. Patrick (Richard Patrick); 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 private wildfire suppression to bolster capacity for direct attack resources, such as aerial resources, ...
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Davis, Emily Jane; Abrams, Jesse; Wollstein, Katherine; Meacham, James E.
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)
Wildfires are increasingly common and growing in size across rangelands in the U.S. West. Although fire is a natural component of sagebrush steppe ecosystems, it can also threaten values such as sage-grouse habitat, forage ...
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Luzzi, James
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)
This paper will examine the dominant method of coping with this question, the method that is called the rational planning model. Specifically, it will address how this model has been applied to federal forestry planning. ...
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Davis, Emily Jane; Abrams, Jesse; Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Steen-Adams, Michelle M.; Moseley, Cassandra
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)
Elevated outbreaks of mountain pine beetle
(Dendroctonus ponderosae) have occurred
across the western U.S. over the past two
decades. Although mountain pine beetle (MPB)
is a native insect that naturally infests ...
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Timberlake, Thomas; Schultz, Courtney A.; Abrams, Jesse
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)
Climate change adaptation presents a challenge
for federal land management agencies
in the United States. Increasingly, these
agencies are turning to the concept of resilience to
guide planning for an uncertain future. ...
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Ellison, Autumn; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2017)
Restoration contracts and timber sales to private
businesses can help the Forest Service
accomplish work on national forests while
generating economic activity and social benefits in
nearby communities. The extent to ...
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Huber-Stearns, Heidi; Santo, Anna
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)
The Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service’s
“Eastside Restoration Strategy” aimed
to improve forest health conditions by accelerating
the pace and scale of restoration on national
forests in eastern Oregon and ...
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Beltram, James; Evans, Rock; Hibbard, Michael; Luzzi, James
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2001)
Reports the findings of a joint study by the Organization for Economic Initiatives, Inc. (OEI) and the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon (UO). OEI is an Oregon 501(c) 3 non-profit corporation ...
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Ellison, Autumn; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)
The Lakeview Stewardship Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Project is one of 23 CFLR projects in the U.S. It was one of 13 projects that was awarded funding by the Forest Service in 2012 with an 8-year funding ...
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Ellison, Autumn; Huber-Stearns, Heidi
(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)
This document is the fourth biannual report
on socioeconomic monitoring results for the
Lakeview Stewardship Collaborative Forest
Landscape Restoration Project. It presents the monitoring
results for federal Fiscal ...
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