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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2024-03)In 2021, Klamath-Lake Forest Health Partnership (KLFHP), together with the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon and Lake County Resource Initiative (LCRI) drafted a new plan for the socioeconomic ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of Oregon, 2024-01)Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Federal Forest Restoration (FFR) Program looks forward to playing a role in implementing Oregon’s 20-year Landscape Resiliency Strategy, which has identified over five million acres ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)Because wildfires don’t stop at ownership boundaries, managers from governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Northern Colorado are taking steps to pro-actively “co-manage” wildfire risk through the Northern ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)In a given area, there are commonly multiple agencies that manage wildfire suppression on different jurisdictions. These agencies can face divergent or even competing missions and mandates, yet must also address the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)In millions of acres of fire-adapted landscapes across the West, the need for forest restoration and wildfire mitigation outpaces capacity to respond, posing risks to homes, communities, and forest health. Land managers ...
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Boots on the ground, boots around the table : managing rangeland wildfire risk in Oregon and Idaho (Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The rangelands of southeastern Oregon and southern Idaho have experienced increasingly large wildfires that threaten multiple values and can exceed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) response capacity. There has been interest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Federal Forest Restoration (FFR) Program is continuing its work partnering with federal land managers, who manage 60% of Oregon’s forests, to address the 5.6 million acres of Oregon’s ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)Restoration is a pressing need across Oregon’s forests—over 7 million acres are experiencing declining forest health and are at elevated risk of large and destructive wildfires. Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2022)The Oregon communities of Oakridge and Westfir have historically been ranked amongst the top 20 communities in the United States with the worst air quality due to high concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) from home ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)Many communities use collaborative processes and groups to pursue common goals. Social science can aid in these processes. For successful application of social science in a collaborative setting, practitioners can ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2021)Many communities in the rural western United States seek ecological, economic, and social wellbeing and resilience of their people and landscapes through collaborative groups. Increasingly, these groups have recognized ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFRP)—administered by the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF)—has been using Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) since 2016 to complete restoration activities on lands managed by the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)The USDA Forest Service conducts climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVA) to inform planning and regions, and individual forests have also assessed climate change vulnerabilities for their landscapes and ecosystems, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2020)The Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFRP) is a partnership between the state of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase forest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)Over the past two decades, numerous federal forest collaboratives have emerged in the state of Oregon. Although they generally do not possess any formal decision-making authority, their efforts are considered important ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congressional legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These areas ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congressional legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) was authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill. It allows federal and state agencies to work in partnership to implement watershed and forest management activities on federal lands. The Federal ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2019)The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFRP) is a partnership between the state of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public lands stakeholders to increase forest restoration and economic opportunity on federal forest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2018)The U.S. Forest Service manages specially-designated areas and national monuments, protected either by Congress through legislation or by the President via proclamation under the authority of the Antiquities Act. These ...