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The State of the Dry Forest Zone and Its Communities by Emily Jane Davis; Cassandra Moseley; Max Nielsen-Pincus; University of Oregon is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The State of the Dry Forest Zone and Its Communities about?

The Dry Forest Zone is a region of eastern Oregon and northern California with challenging market conditions and high levels of poverty and unemployment. However, local entrepreneurship, collaboration, and commitment to integrated economic development and natural resource management in the zone are strong. In the past decade, the scope of community-based nonprofits, integrated biomass utilization businesses, and new networks has increased, fostering sustainable forest stewardship at an increasingly regional scale. The geography and climate of the zone support dry forests of pine and mixed conifer with fire regimes that are departed from their historical range of variability. These forests are prone to wildfire hazards and in need of active management to restore more diverse and variable-aged structures. As 68 percent of the land in the zone is public, the communities of this region rely on the economic and ecological productivity of these federal forests. The number of sawmills that once provided high levels of primary processing capacity and employment has shrunk to nine mills in the zone. More forest-related employment is now forestry support work, including activities such as fi

Who reads The State of the Dry Forest Zone and Its Communities?

Author

Emily Jane Davis; Cassandra Moseley; Max Nielsen-Pincus; University of Oregon

Publisher

Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, 2010.

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction