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EWP Working Papers: Recent submissions
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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, 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, 2016)In this synthesis and annotated bibliography, we seek to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the factors that influence NEPA challenge risks and successes in order to inform and guide resource managers within ...
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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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(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, 2016)The purpose of this paper is to examine similarities and differences between treatment of forest workers and small and disadvantaged businesses performing the same work in Oregon: a.) under existing federal pathways for ...
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A third-party evaluation of the IRR pilot : report from phase 3, stakeholder outreach and engagement (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)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, ...
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(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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(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, 2015)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 ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)An accelerated pace and scale of forest restoration on Oregon’s eastside national forests will rely heavily on the ability of contractors to both implement forest treatments and contribute to environmental planning activities. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)There has been focused investment from the USDA Forest Service (USFS), the State of Oregon, local governments, and others to increase the quality and pace and scale of forest restoration on national forests in eastern ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Working forest and range lands are rapidly changing as exurban growth, economic trends, and environmental impacts associated with climate change challenge traditional livelihoods derived from the production of farm, ranch, ...
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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)Wildfire has become a growing threat for communities across the American West and a complex concern for agencies tasked with community protection. This task has grown more difficult due to the increasing incidence of large ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)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 ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Several trends have emerged in recent years that affect the management of the National Forest System, particularly in the western U.S. One is the recognition of landscapes departed from a natural range of variation, ...
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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, 2015)The U.S. Forest Service’s Eastside Restoration initiative intends to increase the “pace and scale” of forest and watershed restoration activities on federal forest lands through more effective environmental planning and ...
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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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