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Alliance of Forest Harvesters and Workers
(AFHW) |
Jobs and Biodiversity Coalition
(JBC) |
Public Lands Partnership
(PLP) |
Wallowa Resources
(WR) |
Watershed Research and Training Center
(WRTC)> |
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Ecological setting |
Northwestern mixed conifer forests to California mixed conifer to oak
savanna |
Southwestern ponderosa pine forests |
Western conifer forests; piñon–juniper woodlands;
sagebrush–grassland rangelands |
Western conifer forests; riparian habitat; Palouse prairie
rangelands |
California mixed-conifer forests, with some Ponderosa pine, oak savannas,
and early successional shrublands |
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Ecological threats |
Invasive non-native species, altered fire regimes, degradation |
Altered fire regimes, poor logging practices |
Altered fire regimes, non-native invasive species, habitat loss and
fragmentation, erosion |
Altered fire and flood regimes, non-native invasive species, habitat loss
and degradation, fragmentation. |
Habitat degradation, altered fire regimes, history of poor logging
practices |
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Ecological goals |
● Reduce risk of catastrophic fire
● Restore the link
between livelihoods and the forest
● Resource (mushroom, basket
material) protection
● Reduce herbicide use |
● Achieve historic ponderosa pine forest structure and function
through restoration rather than “standard” fuel reduction
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Create wildlife habitat |
● Enhance and maintain diverse, healthy and viable
environments
● Restore the link between livelihoods and the
land |
● Understand and maintain natural variation
● Address causes
as well as symptoms of degradation
● Use adaptive management
●
Restore the link between livelihoods and the forest |
● Reduce risk of catastrophic fire
● Wildlife habitat
enhancement
● Restore the link between livelihoods and the
forest
● Use adaptive management |
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Social setting |
Culturally diverse, underserved community. Distrust among harvester groups
and between harvesters and agencies. Invisible and undervalued workers.
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Low socioeconomic levels, job loss due to loss of timber on federal lands
and mine closures. Anglo, Hispano, Mexican-American, and Native
American. |
Rapid demographic change and growth, with increase in retirees, amenity
residents, tourism and exurban development. Decline in economic viability of
land-based livelihoods. Growing Hispanic population. |
Community in transition due to changing forest policy, timber industry
restructuring, and demographic change. Increasing poverty. Declining
institutional capacity. Primarily Anglo. |
Community in transition due to changing forest policy, timber industry
restructuring, and demographic change. Increasing poverty. Cultural conflict
over land and resource use. Declining institutional capacity. Primarily
Anglo. |
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Social Goals |
● Social justice
● Pay scale that acknowledges skill and
work
● Training |
● Build trust and support from environmental organizations and U.S.
Forest Service for forest restoration prescriptions
● Create jobs from
small-diameter wood utilization
● Reduce conflict |
● Facilitate constructive dialog about public land management
● Participate in public land management decision making
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Increase awareness of interdependence of local economies and landscapes
● Increase civic engagement and social learning |
● Build trust and support in community and U.S. Forest Service for
forest restoration prescriptions.
● Build trust and reduce conflict
about management.
● Training, education, and outreach.
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Build contractor capacity and create jobs
● Civic science and social
learning. |
● Address conflict
● Build relationships among
organizations and agencies
● Build contractor capacity
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Support traditional resource-based economy
● Civic science and social
learning |