September 6, 2004
National Conference Learns of Economic Benefits from Restoration
Representatives from Humboldt County, CA joined Marnie Criley of Wildlands CPR to explore "Economic Benefits to Counties from Watershed and Forest Restoration" during a workshop at the National Association of Counties (NACo) in Phoenix in July. This meeting attracts 4,000 county officials from around the country. Presenters included Sungnome Madrone, Co-Director of Natural Resources Services of Redwood Community Action Agency (RCAA) and Bonnie Neely of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, among others. The workshop looked at new possibilities for job creation through watershed and forest restoration; CEED's study, Reinvestment in Jobs, Communities and Forests: The Benefits of a National Program for Road Removal on U.S. Forest Service Lands, was cited in the workshop.
Available on Wildlands CPR's website (www.Wildlandscpr.org) are several new resources: "Road Removal Toolkit"; "Road Decommissioning that Works: Communities, Cash, and Collaboration:"; "Benefits and Impacts of Road Removal" "Investing in Communities, Investing in the Land" and the full-color summary, with photographs, "Investing in Communities, Investing in the Land" which is based on CEED's report.
CEED, with Arcata's PlanWest, recently completed the City of Arcata's Economic Development Strategic Plan which uses a place- and neighborhood-based "smart infilling" approach to diversifying the local community's economy. CEED also recently completed Green Building and Buying in Indian Country: A Practical Guide for California Tribes, funded by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. CEED was awarded a major grant from the California Department of Conservation to develop new markets for products using recycled glass, such as bricks and tiles. CEED continues to work with a variety of other organizations and projects including the Lindsay Creek -Watershed Based Assessment Project (with RCAA), benefit and cost studies for the Friends of the Eel River, the community-based forestry work of the Collaborative Learning Circle, funded by the Ford foundation, and several other projects.
See our website for our programs and projects, http://www.ceedweb.org/projects/regional.html.
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TOC for Forest & River News, Summer 2004