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.

EWP Other Publications

Originally published in a variety of locations, these documents highlight other projects and publications EWP staff members have worked on. 

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

The Klamath Lake Forest Health Partnership (KLFHP) continues its mission to facilitate restoration projects on public and private forestland in Klamath and Lake Counties through education, outreach,…
The Ecosystem Workforce Program partnered with the Lake County Resources Initiative, the Great Basin Institute, and the Fremont-Winema National Forest to conduct long-term monitoring of ecological…
The 2020 Labor Day fires burned approximately 850,000 acres across Oregon and stressed the state’s long-term disaster recovery systems. Communities with more successful responses to local wildfire…
To support implementation of the 20-Year Landscape Resilience Strategy, Oregon Department of Forestry partnered with Oregon State University’s Institute for Natural Resources and the University of…
In this working paper, we share key lessons learned for policy and practice from organizations engaged in long-term recovery efforts of the wildland megafires (fires >100,000 acres) that ignited…
In this report, we present social and economic monitoring results for eight rural, forest-based communities within the NWFP area. Chapter 1 presents background and methods for the NWFP 30-year social…
Assistant research professor James Johnston led research that discovered very significant decline in old-growth trees in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.
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…
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