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ABOUT PWCFC:
Pacific West Community
Forestry Center
Regional Map
Staff
Advisory Council
Workshops
Technical Assistance
OTHER COMMUNITY FORESTRY CENTERS:
National Community
Forestry Center
National Community
Forestry Center,
Northern Forest Region
Southwest Community
Forestry Research Center
Appalachian Forest
Resource Center
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The Pacific West Community Forestry Center is a regional field station
of the National Community Forestry Center,
a project of the National Network of Forest Practitioners. We serve western Washington, Oregon,
and the rural forested regions of northern California. The Center is hosted
by Sierra Institute for Community and Environment in Taylorsville, California.
Our Focus
We partner with diverse communities who have not had a representative voice in forestry decision-making, such as low-income mushroom and floral greens harvesters, Latino restoration workers, and Native American tribes. We work with these underserved communities around four important issue areas:
- Environmental Justice
Environmental Justice means equal protection under the law to live,
work, and play in a safe and clean environment. The PWCFC works to increase
rural and forest worker participation in water and forestry discussions,
particularly focused on low-income and minority communities.
- The Ecosystem Workforce: Mobile and Local
Many harvesters and workers in the woods have been invisible in forestry discussions, such as Latino restoration workers and Southeast Asian mushroom harvesters. We work to identify and build capacity in these underserved forest worker communities to address their own community-identified issues.
- Traditional Ecological Knowledge
We partner with Native American tribes who are recovering and applying their traditional cultural and ecological knowledge in landscape stewardship.
- Socioeconomic Monitoring and Assessment
We engage in primary, applied, and participatory research to help develop important lessons about community well-being and natural resource use and jobs.
Please visit Projects to learn more
about our work with communities in these focus areas.
Katie Bagby, PWCFC Coordinator
Email: KBagby@sierrainstitute.us
Jonathan Kusel, Director, FCR
Email: Kusel@sierrainstitute.us
PWCFC
c/o Forest Community Research
P.O. Box 11
Taylorsville, CA 95983
Tel: (530) 284-1022
Fax: (530) 284-1023
WWW: http://www.sierrainstitute.us
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