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PROJECT AREAS:
Socioeconomic
Monitoring and Assessment
Environmental Justice
Ecosystem Workforce—
Mobile and Local
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
RECENT PROJECTS:
Community-based Projects
Staff Research
How We Select Projects
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Four important issue areas guide our work with underserved communities. In both our community-based projects and our staff-directed research, we are working to investigate and understand the following issues:
- 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.
Click on each of the highlighted issue areas to learn more about the kind of work we do, with examples.
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