Assessing the state of your contracting opportunities, contractors, and workers is a key first step in any effort to build quality jobs in ecosystem management.

The resources below offer some tools for undertaking a workforce assessment, and using that assessment to create an action plan. One quick guide offers simple instructions for undertaking an assessment.   The second offers suggestions for creating an action plan. In addition, we offer several links to actual workforces assessments and sample surveys that can be adapted to local circumstances. 

• An Analysis of Local Contractor Interest and Capability in Stewardship Contracting in Lemhi County, Idaho (2006)
• An Assessment of Federal Contracting and Contractor Capacity in Josephine County, Oregon (2007)
• Forest and Watershed Restoration and Maintenance
  Opportunities and Capacity in the Siuslaw Basin, Oregon (2006)
• An Analysis of Forest Service and BLM Contracting in Lake County, Oregon (2001)
• Grande Ronde Model Watershed Program Economic Assessment (2001)
• A Community-Based Assessment of the Developing Ecosystem Management Industry in Coos and Curry Counties, Oregon (1999)

• Lemhi County Local Contractor Interest and Capability in Stewardship Contracting Survey (doc)
• Josephine County Workforce Assessment Interview Script (pdf)
• Siuslaw Basin Contractor Survey Script (doc)
• Trinity County Contracting Capacity Survey (doc)
• Gifford Pinchot Collaborative Working Group, Draft Contractor Survey (doc)
• Lake Country Workforce Survey (pdf) - July, 2001