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Jobs for Environment This program addressed two critical issues in the Pacific Northwest:
declining salmon populations and declining employment in the traditional
fisheries and timber industries. From 1994 to 1996, NNRG employed
displaced timber and fisheries workers to restore degraded salmon
habitat in the watersheds of East Jefferson County. Working closely
with Wild Olympic Salmon, a non-profit environmental agency, and
Jefferson Conservation District, NNRG administered the program
through a grant from the Washington Department of Nat ural Resources
Jobs for the Environment Program. The program has attracted national
attention and was featured in the January 95 issue of Audubon magazine.
The administration of this program has since been handed over to
Wild Olympic Salmon. |
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Additional Programs Forestry Outreach NNRG has collaborated with state agencies, and tribal and private organizations to teach landowners about sustainable forestry methods through workshops, focus group meetings, and presentations. Forestry Research and Development NNRG works with public and private agencies to develop economically feasible alternative forestry options. In 1996, NNRG collaborated with the State Department of Natural Resources to develop techniques for implementing uneven aged selective harvesting on state forest land. Economic Development Former NNRG President, Philip Speser, developed the concept of a manufacturing technology center in secondary wood products. A feasibility study was completed by WoodNet, a flexible manufacturing network of 300 companies on the Olympic Peninsula, under funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. Environmental Education NNRG works with community groups on environmental education projects. Past accomplishments include an interactive educational series which united students with foresters, loggers, environmentalist, and land owners through a program with the Port Townsend based Learning Opportunities For Thinking People (LOFT); the Wetlands Peer Education Project, funded by the EPA, in which students participated in a tutoring program focused on wetlands; the development of public information to promote a new wildlife corridor which protects and restores environmentally sensitive land on the Quimper Peninsula; and Olympic Peace Trees which united 16-24 year olds from around the globe with local youth to perform stream and habitat restoration, tree planting, projects on the eastern Olympic Peninsula. |