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 ...

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 ...

Oregon’s forest landscapes require active restoration to improve ecological health and to support livelihoods in rural communities. Targeting unmet need on federal forests, the State of Oregon initiated the Federal ...

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, ...

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, ...

The Fremont-Winema National Forest and the Lakeview Stewardship Group were awarded funding under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program in 2012 for the 662,289 acre Lakeview Stewardship Project. The ...

Collaboration on Forest Restoration and the Southern Blues Project: In the wake of changing ecological and social conditions, a diverse group of community leaders, loggers, ranchers, conservationists, and USFS representatives ...

In this paper, we review the literature to shed light on the social dynamics associated with the utilization of woody biomass generated from forests managed for timber products and other social and ecological values. Our ...

The purpose of this report is to provide information about various approaches that the Forest Service, BLM, and their partners have used to create large restoration programs using stewardship contracts and agreements. These ...

The Integrated Resource Restoration (IRR) budgeting tool combines “legacy” budget line items (BLIs) into a combined restoration BLI. It is meant to provide increased flexibility to conduct integrated restoration work, ...