EWP Publications

Ecosystem Workforce Program publications are available through Scholars Bank. Explore by category or browse the most recent EWP publications.

Publication Categories

EWP Working Papers

These papers provide in depth analysis and original research on issues of both environmental and economic importance with a focus on rural communities.

EWP Briefing Papers

This set of papers provides shorter, more concise versions of many of the same topics covered in the working papers. Research is boiled down to its key findings and critical conclusions.

EWP Quick Guides

Quick guides are tools to help practitioners, agencies, businesses, and others create economic benefit from land management. They provide straightforward instructions for assessing workforce capacity, monitoring economic impacts, and more.

EWP Infographics

These graphics illustrate institutional trends, economic impacts and distributions, land management methods, and data analysis outcomes from projects through maps, charts, timelines, diagrams, and other visual approaches.

EWP Fact Sheets

Our fact sheets explore project themes and concepts by describing innovative examples, case studies, and outcomes from a variety of natural resource based economic development, collaboration, and community resilience projects, among others.

Journal Articles and Other Publications by EWP Staff

Originally published in a variety of locations, these documents highlight other projects and publications EWP staff members have worked on, including peer-reviewed journal articles. They address issues including job quality, forest restoration and management, forest fires, and many more.

EWP Monitoring Plans

Monitoring plans provide frameworks for tracking progress, guiding adaptive management, and ensuring accountability of variously scaled landscape restoration projects. EWP develops monitoring plans through collaboration with project partners.


Recent Publications

In collaboration with the Northern Blues Restoration Partnership (NBRP), Wallowa Resources contracted with the Ecosystem Workforce Program (EWP) at the University of Oregon to conduct socioeconomic…
The Klamath-Lake Forest Health Partnership (KLFHP) coordinates All-Lands restoration projects in south-central Oregon. KLFHP engages private landowners in voluntary forestland management initiatives…
A resource guide listing toolkits, websites, and upcoming and ongoing events.
The Oregon Department of Forestry’s Federal Forest Restoration (FFR) Program continues to make progress toward its statutory responsibility to promote shared stewardship, reduce wildfire risk, and…
The West Bend Prescribed Fire Pilot Project was an ambitious and unprecedented effort in pace and scale in the area, designed in response to wildfire and climate crises, and centering public health.…
This document summarizes results of a case study of three 2020 Labor Day Fire footprints in Western Oregon. It explores the question “What organizations and networks filled response and recovery…
This report highlights the challenges in wildfire recovery and offers policy recommendations for local, state, and federal agencies. The 2020 Labor Day Fires in Oregon had an unprecedented impact,…
Fire in the heart of the Oregon Cascades: exceptional variability in fire across the western Cascades Coughlan, Michael R.; Cummings, Tressa; Derr, Kelly M.; Johnson, Bart R.; Johnston, James D. (…
Federal Forest Restoration Program update: activities and outcomes Sullivan-Astor, Kyle; Coughlan, Michael R.; Serio, Naomi; Ellison, Autumn The Oregon Department of Forestry’s (ODF) Federal Forest…