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Hawai'i Forestry: A New Economy with a New Workforce

I was very fortunate to have recently been part of a team from Hawai'i to accompany a site review team that visited the timber communities in Oregon, Washington, and California which have been part of President Clinton's Northwest Plan. For those of you that are unaware of it, the Northwest Plan was a community economic revitalization effort which was initiated to assist the transition of declining "old growth" timber communities to new economic opportunities and community development based on ecosystem management -based forestry and value-added forest industries.


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Author(s): Lorraine H. Akiba

Event: Koa: A Decade of Growth
1996 - Honolulu Hawai’i