The Forest Service and Partners

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1 he orest ervice and Partners orking together to restore Pacific orthwest ational orests pring 2018 ear two report of he orest ervice and ommunities: he relationships between land and people in the Pacific orthwest egion cosystem orkforce Program

2 his project is a partnership between the Pacific orthwest egion of the.. orest ervice and the cosystem orkforce Program at the niversity of regon. he roles of the cosystem orkforce Program (P) in this partnership include: developing and applying research methods; data gathering, analysis, interpretation, and display; cartography; and graphic design. ach partner provides project oversight and management, shares lessons learned, and helps disseminate results. P Principal nvestigator: assandra oseley, Director, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. Project lead: eidi uber-tearns, ssociate Director, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. ayout and design: utumn llison, aculty esearch ssistant, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. dditional data analysis, visualization, and mapping: elly Jacobson, aculty esearch ssistant, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. olin Phifer, aculty esearch ssistant, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. Jonathan alerno, aculty esearch ssociate, cosystem orkforce Program, nstitute for a ustainable nvironment, niversity of regon. regory itzgerald, student, Department of eography, niversity of regon. Blake ndrew, Program nalyst, ampus & apping, niversity of regon. he roles of the orest ervice in this partnership include: setting project framework and sideboards; accessing and interpreting data; coordinating across multiple staff areas; and providing subject matter expertise. ach partner provides project oversight and management, shares lessons learned, and helps disseminate results. orest ervice project sponsor: hoshona honi. Pilip-lorea, Director, Pacific orthwest egion ffice of ommunications and ommunity ngagement. Project lead: aia J. nzer, ashington ffice, cosystem anagement oordination. Project manager: mily J. Biesecker, Pacific orthwest egion, ommunications and ommunity ngagement. orest ervice creative team: During this second year of the project we established a reative eam of orest ervice employees. ach member committed time and energy to advising, reviewing, and challenging the project to advance understanding of the orest ervice s impacts on sustainable, natural resourcesbased economies. ly arren, Pacific orthwest egion, atural esources. yan regg, ashington ffice, trategic Planning, Budget, and ccountability. indsay Buchanan, ashington ffice, orest anagement. Jessica ubado and ax ahlberg, Pacific orthwest egion, esource Planning and onitoring. arl Dalla osa, Pacific orthwest egion, tate and Private orestry. athryn trawn, Pacific orthwest egion, Data esource anagement. cknowledgments: he support of the egional orester and the egional ffice Director eams for this project has been instrumental to our ability to fulfill the project objectives, especially our learning process. e appreciate their leadership and willingness to try something new, to allow for learning, and to support many of their staff in continuing to coordinate with us in the second year of this project. e thank Josh hapman for his contributions to the project through help with the errestrial abitat nhancement data. e also appreciate Dana roll s assistance with data from the imber nformation anager database. over photo courtesy of outhern illamette orest ollaborative. ll other photos courtesy of cosystem orkforce Program or orest ervice Pacific orthwest egion ( his report is P orking Paper # and may be downloaded at: or at the project page at: or more information about this document, contact: cosystem orkforce Program nstitute for a ustainable nvironment 247 niversity of regon ugene, hhuber@uoregon.edu or more information about this project, contact: ffice of ommunications and ommunity ngagement orest ervice, Pacific orthwest egion rd venue, 13th loor Portland,, 204 cce@fs.fed.us

3 bout this project his is a joint project between the.. orest ervice Pacific orthwest egion and the niversity of regon cosystem orkforce Program. his project aims to help the orest ervice and its partners better understand and communicate the social and economic contexts in which the orest ervice operates and document orest ervice impacts in advancing sustainable natural resources-based economies. e designed this project as a collaborative learning process in which we would experiment with new ways to use, integrate, and represent data, especially orest ervice data, to understand potential applications of data already being collected and recorded as well as identify data gaps and strategize how to fill them. n the first year of this project we conducted experimental work across more than a dozen different databases, uncovering and illustrating information about characteristics and interactions between communities and the orest ervice in the Pacific orthwest. n the second year of this project, presented in this book, we expanded on what we learned in the first year, focusing on new questions that build from year one. he datasets accessed and analyzed during the second year have allowed us to show visually compelling information in new ways, while exploring answers to more detailed questions, especially about who the agency partners with, how and toward what accomplishments. n this second year we focused on: 1) showing trends over time; 2) presenting more nuanced analyses of regional characteristics, agency data, and linkages to communities; 3) digging deeper into collaborative restoration efforts and understanding where and how partnerships are leveraged by non-agency partners; 4) providing more detail on forest products from the national forests. e present the results of our exploration over three chapters that show: 1. ocial and economic characteristics and conditions in the towns and communities where the orest ervice works, as well as orest ervice budget and personnel trends (hapter 1); 2. mpacts of the trend to work collaboratively on the restoration of national forests (hapter 2); 3. potlights on partnerships, including how partnerships are leveraging resources to restore wildlife habitat, and what and how businesses are purchasing forest materials across regon and ashington (hapter 3). oadmap: his document contains three chapters, bookended by an ntroduction and onclusion. n ppendix section at the end of this document includes details on all data and methods used.

4 Data used in this book imber nformation anager data used office locations ther data used census data Budget reports Joint hiefs shapefiles and data data: location of services Personnel reports atershed mprovement racking P shapefiles and data orest collaborative shapefiles and related data regon and ashington management units and acronyms nit ode D P B P nit ame olumbia iver orge ational cenic rea olville ational orest Deschutes ational orest remont-inema ational orest ifford Pinchot ational orest alheur ational orest ount Baker-noqualmie ational orest t. ood ational orest choco ational orest and rooked iver ational rassland kanogan-enatchee ational orest lympic ational orest ogue iver-iskiyou ational orest iuslaw ational orest matilla ational orest mpqua ational orest allowa-hitman ational orest illamette ational orest

5 able of contents ntroduction: he Pacific orthwest egion review of information relevant to the content of the following chapters, including maps of land designations, isolation, and drivetime.. here the orest ervice orks in regon and ashington his chapter includes an overview of orest ervice personnel and budget trends for national forests in regon and ashington, and a look at social and demographic characteristics of the towns where orest ervice offices are located. Budget and personnel overview and trends here the orest ervice is located haracteristics of towns with orest ervice offices andscape estoration hrough ollaboration his chapter explores forest collaboratives and collaborative restoration programs in regon and ashington, including investments, partners, and accomplishments. orest collaboratives ollaborative orest andscape estoration Program Joint hiefs andscape estoration Program Partnership potlights his chapter includes spotlights on two types of orest ervice partners: those involved in terrestrial habitat enhancement and forest product purchasers. estoring national forest lands ational forest product purchasers Businesses purchasing nontimber forest products onclusion ppendix: ethods and data sources

6 ederal, state, and tribal land designations regon and ashington 122 arine eserve () eabird Protection rea () arine Protection rea () lympic oast ational arine anctuary () ational ecreation rea ational cenic rea D B ational Volcanic onument 2 B ake helan kane po D P P Z B V Vancouver illamook iv er D B isters V 730 D D B D V 82 BD BB B Pendleton a rande 4 iv e B Baker ity r D V adras 26D D John Day 39 D e wb e r r y V B P B ines Burns rater ake arney ake ilver ake D ummer ake P 199 edford - V B pper lamath ake lamath alls P 39 r ve i rants Pass ogue old Beach 9 tee ns ive r gency ake - cd D V akeview oose ake Brookings ee yh ake lbert 43 w J P 44 alheur ake P Q 26 Vale anyonville J BD PQ B D Port rford 4 e lls a n y on Bend oseburg edfish ocks P edfish ocks page Bandon 12 D 43 m i th i ve r oos Bay ennewick orth Bend D ugene Q B B 20 DD B, PQ, D D P illamette ape Perpetua outheast P lorence e 82 1 D ape Perpetua P 47 B ape Perpetua orth P eedsport DD lbany ape Perpetua re g o n Dunes D D B P D V J orvallis D er iv 39 DD D ay 19 John ewport 26 DD B Z D ount D o o d DD B D D olumbia iver orge he Dalles D V P alla alla ood iver Portland tter ock V B ¼¼ o unt a in 44 B P 26 D D B D BD D P 82 akima o u n t t. e l e n s V ongview PP ape alcon horeside P ape alcon est P 12 B P Q D 30 ascade ead est P Z D B 46 ascade ead arine eserve ascade ead outh P 4 er iv pokane ascade ead orth P P 2 iver ape alcon na ke cd B 48 2 P B V akim a P D B acoma P P B DD B V 39 D B V P 12 storia D D B V D V Q B Z QX D B 47 B D B B kanogan enatchee D B ntroduction P P D PD olville D Q D V onasket Q B P D P D V - eattle orth ascades 117 verett n ak 118 ive r P B BD D 119 B P B - B P P D B J B D B J D D P Q - PP D B D 48 Q B J Z lympic oast ational arine anctuary t. Baker B B Bellingham D B B 121 ribal ands.. orest ervice.. orest ervice ilderness ational Park ervice Bureau of and anagement Department of Defense.. ish and ildlife ervice Bureau of eclamation Department of nergy tate ands his map was constructed from data collected from various tate and ederal agencies and was compiled by Data esources anagement staff. or a copy of this map, please contact Jesse ett at or jnett@fs.fed.us

7 ntroduction: he Pacific orthwest egion andownership patterns across regon and ashington are a diverse matrix, which underscores the complexity land managers and communities alike face in land management in the Pacific orthwest. t the same time, the Pacific orthwest is also a region of extreme variation in access to services, with the majority of the population clustered around the nterstate- corridor in the western portions of regon and ashington, and sparser populations in the eastern portions of the states. e show a distance and a drivetime map in the beginning of this document to acknowledge this isolation and the challenges in access to services, such as hospitals, banks, freeways and other points of reference that impact community connectivity and access to markets. n the Pacific orthwest, getting access to people and help can be complicated. ural communities need to have economies that can thrive even though they are isolated from markets, transportation corridors, and major centers of commerce. he orest ervice has offices located in some of the most isolated communities in regon and ashington. n many rural areas, these agency offices are more accessible than other services. he ey takeaway: regon and ashington have large landholdings by federal, state, and tribal governments, and many communities are isolated from key amenities and markets, illustrating the importance of the orest ervice role in these isolated places. national forests are managed as part of these isolated landscapes, and are important economic drivers in these rural areas. perating national forests in places that are far removed from commerce also brings its own management challenges. nderstanding isolation can help land managers be more effective, and to design programs of work to mitigate the challenges and amplify the opportunities that come with it. page

8 page 6 Distance to the nearest hospital Distance to nearest hospital Pendleton Baker ity enatchee ood iver Bend akeview John Day ugene pokane eattle Portland olville orvallis verett lympia oseburg edford Job orps enter anger District egional ffice esearch tation upervisor s ffice Visitor enter reated eptember 2017 cosystem orkforce Program niversity of regon osptial reated eptember 2017 cosystem orkforce Program niversity of regon 0 17 aximum distance: 130 miles ospital orest ervice ffices Job orps enter anger District egional ffice esearch tation upervisor s ffice Visitor enter o-located offices Distance to nearest hospital Pendleton Baker ity enatchee ood iver Bend akeview John Day ugene pokane eattle Portland olville orvallis verett lympia oseburg edford o-located offices Job orps enter anger District egional ffice esearch tation upervisor s ffice Visitor enter reated eptember 2017 cosystem orkforce Program niversity of regon osptial reated eptember 2017 cosystem orkforce Program niversity of regon aximum distance: 130 miles 0 17 miles ntroduction

9 Drive time to nearest interstate onramp Drive time to the nearest interstate onramp verett eattle enatchee lympia ood iver Vancouver Portland andy orvallis ugene Bend oseburg edford akeview nterstates orest ervice ffices Job orps enter upervisor s ffice anger District Visitor enter egional ffice o-located offices esearch tation Pendleton John Day olville Drive time to neares pokane orvallis oseburg ugene reated eptember 2017 cosystem orkforce Program niversity of regon Drive time to nearest interstate onramp Drive time to the onramp 0-30 minutes minutes 61- minutes minutes ore than 2 hours Vancouver Portland andy Baker ity lympia edford verett eattle ood iver Bend ntroduction 7 page