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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, 2015)The U.S. Forest Service purchases goods and services to help meet its land management objectives. Forest collaboratives, community-based organizations, and others frequently express interest in increasing local economic ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2015)The increased interest in restoration on both public and private lands has led to opportunities for advancing a more robust restoration economy in some rural communities. However, achieving local economic benefits for ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)The Watershed Condition Framework (WCF) asks Forest Service program managers and line officers to plan and implement integrated watershed restoration. Collaborating to restore watersheds can help you, as a national forest ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2012)Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development....The purpose of this quick guide is to help you, as a national forests and grasslands staff ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2011)This guide will help you develop an economic monitoring program by setting goals, selecting monitoring measures, collecting data, and reporting and using monitoring results. Specifically, it describes how to obtain and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)An ecosystem workforce assessment collects information about the state of the industry in a particular locale. It generally includes information about the types and amount of work undertaken in a particular area, the ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2007)This quick guide aims to help collaborative groups and their agency partners develop and implement strategies to improve the quality and quantity of the local economic opportunities that are being created through private ...
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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)The U.S. Forest Service is facing unprecedented challenges in wildfire suppression, and increasingly depends on resources outside the agency to maintain adequate wildfire response capacity. Reliance on private wildfire ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Wood is one of the most abundant and versatile renewable energy sources in the United States. Heat and electricity can be generated from low-value woody material such as small trees, tree limbs, brush, and wood waste at ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Water utilities benefit from ecosystem services that improve water quality and moderate stream temperatures, such as the natural filtration and shading services provided by riparian forests. Such benefits have brought ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) is an emerging conservation strategy that provides economic incentives for the protection of ecosystem services that benefit society, such as the provision of clean air, clean water, ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Collaborative groups, community leaders, and others want to increase the socioeconomic impacts of natural resource management. Monitoring can provide data to foster learning and improve socioeconomic conditions. Yet ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2014)The McKenzie River Watershed provides the sole source of drinking water to residents of Eugene, but increasing residential development could impact water quality. To protect drinking water quality, the Eugene Water and ...
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(Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2013)Small and medium-sized forest and range landowners have a significant impact on ecosystem health. Conservation programs such as those offered by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and environmentally-oriented ...
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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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