Current Projects

Here are just a few examples of the projects we currently have underway:

• Identifying ways that small forest and rangeland owners can access payments for ecosystem services
• Calculating the economic impacts for forest and watershed restoration
• Examining how oak savanna restoration can protect communities from wildfire
• Understanding the economic impacts of large wildland fires in rural communities.
• Conducting studies to inform people and decision makers in Oregon's Willamette Valley in dealing with rapid population growth while sustaining wildlife habitat, water quality, agriculture, and economic development
• Helping underserved and impoverished rural communities create quality jobs in natural resource restoration and management
• Creating of a model for designing and implementing strategies to prepare Oregon's natural, built, human and economic systems to withstand and adapt to climate change.
• Assisting the newly created city of Damascus, Oregon in developing its first comprehensive plan that will conserve water quality, fish and wildlife habitats, and scenic quality while fostering the potential for a green city that may reduce its dependence on the automobile and other forms of energy consumption compared to other cities in the region.
• Measuring the importance of coldwater habitats as stepping stones for salmon, linking the habitats to dynamic river processes, and identifying land owner benefits and concerns to design on-going conservation and restoration efforts in the Willamette River floodplain.