Ecosystem Workforce Program
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Problem Over the past decade, several congressional authorities and Forest Service policy directives have encouraged the Forest Service to increase local community benefit from forest management contracting. At the same time, there has been a larger policy debate about the role of immigrants and guest workers in the United States workforce, including in forest management. Although there have been studies about local contracting in the Pacific Northwest and studies of forestry contracting using guest workers in the Southeast, little is known about either of these topics in the Southwest.
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