With this 5-year award to Oregon State Forestry Extension, PNASH joins as a partner in Hands on the Land, a collaborative program to enhance the equity of the forest workforce in the Pacific Northwest. We focus on labor-intensive forest workers including forestry services contract crews, incarcerated workers, and volunteer workforces.
Hands on the Land re-envisions our forest workforce with:
- Safer working conditions
- Equitable employment
- Increased entrepreneurial capacity
- Sustainable ecological outcomes
- We provide resources, narratives, and information to help realize this vision
PNASH's role in the collaborative is to co-develop an accessible resource clearinghouse for forestry workforces that travel the PNW. These crews work deep in the woods and can be unfamiliar with local rules, community services, and best forestry practices. our specific aims include: 1) workforce needs survey, 2) resource clearing house technical development, 3) iterative resource clearinghouse maintenance and user evaluation. This work is co-developed with project partners and informed by direct worker experience.