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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 1999)The Watershed Good-Neighbor program is a unique voluntary, community-based approach to educating and training local businesses and landowners on how they can improve their business productivity and profitability and, in ...
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(ECONorthwest, 1999-11)This handbook is one of the products from the Salmon Economics Project. Few people want to plod through all the evidence regarding the economic theory, facts, and implications of proposals to rebuild healthy salmon ...
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(ECONorthwest, Seattle, Wash., 2000)This report offers a quick summary of the economic data and issues associated with efforts to restore healthy salmon runs in the Puget Sound Basin and the rest of Washington. Salmon populations have declined enough for ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2000-09)According to biologists, increasing streamflows in the Pacific Northwest is essential to restore and maintain the populations of salmon and other native fishes. Since agriculture is the principal source of surface water ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 2001-11-01)The State of Washington faced a record drought situation for the 2001 water year. The opportunity to lease water from current water right holders for the purpose of enhancing instream flows to improve conditions for fish ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 2001-12)Wildfires and poverty are both common in the West. Wildfires intensify poverty by having a pervasive, disproportionately negative impact on those households and communities lacking adequate resources to reduce the ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2002-08)This paper is intended to outline a framework and provide policy recommendations for expanding the tools and approaches available to transfer water between out-of-stream and instream uses and also among out-of-stream uses. ...
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(Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 2002-09)This appendix is a review of fourteen watershed projects: Blue Mountains Demonstration Area; Chattooga River Watershed; Conasauga River Watershed; Lost Rivers National Learning Site; Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley; ...
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(Center for Watershed and Community Health, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University, 2002-09)This report is a formative evaluation of fifteen watersheds from across the country selected to participate in the program. Bob Doppelt and Craig Shinn of Portland State University carried out the review with assistance ...
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(Program for Watershed and Community Health, University of Oregon, 2003-09)This paper provides a framework for understanding the role community capacity plays in meeting fire protection goals and reducing fire risk within a community, neighborhood, or at an individual level. We examine the different ...
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(Natural Hazards Observer, 2003-11)The financial and social costs of wildfires are rising annually. Between 2000 and 2002, wildfires destroyed almost 4,000 structures nationwide and cost the federal government over $3.4 billion in fire suppression. Grants ...
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(Josephine County (Or.), 2004-11-08)Goals [for this Plan are]: protect against potential losses to life, property and natural resources from wildfire; build and maintain active participation from each Fire Protection District; set realistic expectations for ...
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(Program for Watershed and Community Health, University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2005-02)Study to examine the needs and issues of Tribes in Oregon, Washington and Idaho in relationship to wildfire protection and prevention.
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-05)The first annual Woody Vegetation Disposal Day occurred in Southwestern Oregon on April 16, 2005. The event gave participants an opportunity to dispose of their woody vegetation for free. Josephine County’s event was held ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-06)Josephine County officials initiated development of the Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan (JCIFP) in July 2003, along with several federal, state, and local partners. The Plan mission is to protect against potential ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-07)This paper evaluates the JCIFP risk assessment process using information gathered from interviews conducted in February and March 2005 with members of the Risk Assessment Committee. This report is intended to assist other ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-09)This report aims to help communities and JCIFP partners by cataloguing and describing local efforts, presenting case studies of activities underway in other parts of Oregon and around the country, and providing recommendations ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-09)This paper examines the impacts natural disasters have on poor communities all over the world, and the ways in which poverty and social vulnerability exacerbate disaster risk. We cannot reduce the risks poor communities ...
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(Resource Innovations, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2005-10-14)The Wolf Creek Rural Fire Protection District (WCRFPD) strategic plan is intended to help direct the District’s efforts for fire protection. The WCRFPD strategic plan will serve as a living document that is referenced and ...
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(University of Oregon, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, 2005-11)This research project uses the concept of community capacity -- a community's ability to protect itself, respond to, and recover from wildfire -- and examines socioeconomic indicators (one component of community capacity) ...
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