Abstract:
The Federal Forest Restoration Program (FFR
Program) is a partnership between the state
of Oregon, federal forest managers, and public
lands stakeholders to increase forest restoration
and economic opportunity on federal forestlands
across Oregon. The purpose of this working paper
is to describe cumulative investments made by the
FFR Program during its six years of operation, and
to highlight the economic impacts of these investments.
Here, we present: 1) FFR Program expenditures,
2) economic impacts of FFR Program expenditures,
3) on-the-ground impacts of program
expenditures, and 4) stakeholders’ perspectives
about the FFR Program.