News Archive
March 2, 2009
In an interview on UO Today with Barbara Altman, Cassandra Moseley speaks about her recent testimony before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the U.S. Senate at a hearing regarding investments in clean energy and natural resources projects and programs to create green jobs and to stimulate the economy.
February 17, 2009
EWP releases two briefing papers about the economic impacts and job creation potential forest and watershed restoration. The first focuses on the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board's proposed $40 million investment in forest and watershed restoration. The second focuses more generally on restoration activities and their related economic industries. Click here to see the updated listing of briefing papers.
February 11, 2009
With researchers from the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, the EWP releases a briefing paper about creating local economic benefit from hazardous fuels funds in the economic stimulus. Download a PDF of the briefing paper.
December 10, 2008
EWP Director, Cassandra Moseley testifies before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources about the role of public lands restoration in the economic stimulous package. See the Senate Energy and Natural Resource web page for the written testimony and archived video.
October 6, 2008
The National Forest Restoration Collaborative, Defenders of Wildlife, American Lands Alliance, and the Ecosystem Workforce Program releases Rick Brown's "Implications of Climate Change for Conservation, Restoration, and the Management of National Forest Lands".
October 1, 2008
Max Nielsen-Pincus joins the Ecosystem Workforce Program as a Faculty Research Associate.
September 16, 2008
EWP director Cassandra Moseley testified at an oversight hearing on The Pieros: Reviewing the Welfare of Workers on Federal Lands held by the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands of the Committee on Natural Resources. View Moseley's testimony here.
