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Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments (IROCE): Recent submissions
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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)Community-based organizations (CBOs) are non-profit organizations based in rural communities that work on both local economic development and natural resource stewardship. CBOs were established in many places across the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The US Forest Service primarily engages the private sector through service contracts, stewardship contracts, and timber sales. Both stewardship project and timber sales can generate commercially valuable wood products, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)Federal agencies are increasingly relying on contracts to respond to wildfire. Although present since the 1970s, private equipment contractors have come to play an important role following extreme fire seasons in the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)As wildfire has grown, a central challenge has been to develop systems to ensure that suppression resources are in the right place at the right time. As federal agencies increasingly depend on private contracting resources, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)As federal spending on wildland fire suppression has increased dramatically in recent decades, significant policymaking has been designed, at least in part, to address and temper rising costs. Effective strategies for ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaborative effort that seeks, in part, to improve multi-jurisdictional coordination of wildfire management and expand local preparedness and response capacity. ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2016)In 2012, Congress authorized the Integrated Resource Restoration (IRR) budget line item, which consolidates previously separated budget line items into a single funding stream to support integrated restoration planning ...
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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, 2012)This briefing paper contains a series of infographics that examine the effects that the Cold Springs Fire (2008) had on the employment and wages in nearby Klickitat County, WA, and where the $14 million spent to suppress ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015-12-28)This map shows the location of forest collaborative groups in Oregon, as of fall 2014, along with a timeline of their origination.
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013-03-05)As part of the final map packet for the Dry Forest Zone project, this infographic looks at the numbers of Forest Service personnel employed in Region 5 (CA), Region 6 (OR, WA), and nationally from 1973 to 2012. It also ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014-03-05)As part of the final map packet for the Dry Forest Zone project, this infographic looks at the total acres treated, the most frequently-used treatment types, the workforce for different kinds of treatments, and treatment ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014-03-05)As part of the final map packet for the Dry Forest Zone project, this infographic examines how much of the timber from national forests within the Dry Forest Zone was sold to companies within the Dry Forest Zone and within ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)This infographic looks at how investments in different types of restoration work across Oregon impact the economy and workforce, including both the jobs created with each million dollars of investment, and the average ...
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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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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Forest management to achieve ecological objectives can also create desirable social and economic outcomes in local communities. We developed the Forest Restoration and Utilization Calculator to estimate the economic effects ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)Forest collaborative groups in Oregon integrate ecological, economic, and social objectives in their missions. While they spend much of their time on vegetation, aquatic, and other natural resource issues, they have less ...
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