Increasing local benefit from restoration
To provide participants with templates that can be adapted locally to assist them in understanding existing local capacity and how to target re-building or expanding capacity.
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Friday, 2:00pm
To provide participants with templates that can be adapted locally to assist them in understanding existing local capacity and how to target re-building or expanding capacity.
Instructors
- Marianne Klingler, Supervisory Contract Specialist, Wallowa Whitman National Forest, US Forest Service
Strategies for collaborative groups to increase local contractor interest and competitiveness in restoration contracts - Cassandra Moseley, Director, Ecosystem Workforce Program
Techniques and examples for conducting workforce assessments
Recommended Readings
- See examples of workforce assessments, quality job action plans, sample contractor surveys and more!
- View helpful stewardship contracting resources.
- Forest Service's Stewardship Website: From this site, there are links to our current policy and direction, contact information, collaboration information, contract templates, training, success stories, and much more!
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Marianne Klingler
Marianne Klingler is a Supervisory Contract Specialist whose responsibilities include managing the acquisition group in the Blue Mountains and acting as the Regional Stewardship Coordinator for Acquisition Management. Marianne got involved with stewardship during the pilot stage and has maintained active involvement in Regional and National policy and training. As a Contracting Officer, Marianne has awarded numerous Integrated Resource Service Contracts and has assisted many Timber Contracting Officers in development, award, and administration of Integrated Resource Timber Contracts. Stewardship activities are the perfect match for Marianne's 21 years of acquisition experience and her BS in Forestry from Michigan State University.
Cassandra Moseley
Dr. Cassandra Moseley is the Director of the Ecosystem Workforce Program in the Institute for a Sustainable Environment at University of Oregon. At the EWP, she developed applied research and policy education programs, focused on community-based forestry, federal forest management, and the restoration workforce. She is co-editor of People, Fire, and Forests: A Synthesis of Wildfire Social Science and is co-author of Collaborative Environmental Management: What Roles for Government? Prior to joining EWP in 2001, she was an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and Program Development Director at the Rogue Institute for Ecology and Economy in Ashland, Oregon. She a former board member of the Flintridge Foundation and the Applegate Partnership. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University, where she studied collaborative natural resource management and American political development, and her B.A. from Cornell University.
