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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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The PWCFC works with 3-5 communities per year to help them investigate issues they identify as important. Our focus is rural and worker communities who have been underserved and underrepresented in forestry decision-making, such as low-income and communities of color. Some communities are centered in one geographic place, while others are mobile and/or regional, united by culture and work.
The Center assists community partners with funding, technical assistance, and coordination/facilitation to help them implement a participatory research and capacity building project. Learn more about our current community-based participatory research projects below:
- Two projects, the Cave Junction Wild Mushroom Monitoring Project and the Crescent Lake Mushroom Monitoring Project, are empowering low-income mushroom harvesters in southern Oregon to gather information on the social and ecological issues of the harvest, and to participate in forest stewardship decision-making.
- The Maidu Cultural and Development Group is investigating what Traditional Ecological Knowledge means for their forest stewardship project in Greenville, California, and pairing it with western scientific knowledge.
- The Latino Forest Workers Leadership Group, coordinated by CIDERS of Salinas, California, is exploring and piloting methods to create a regional forum to increase Latino forest workers and harvesters' participation in the community forestry dialogue.
- The Grupo de Trabajadores Hispanos (Group of Hispanic Workers) in Shelton, Washington is creating a methodology to increase the capacity of the local Latino forest worker community to become better informed about laws and opportunities that affect their livelihoods.
- The Bishop and Big Pine Paiute Tribal Communities are documenting their traditional ecological knowledge of native plants in the Owens River Valley in California and linking their knowledge with current scientific knowledge.
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