Western Juniper Commercialization Feasibility Study
for the Prineville Area
The overarching goal of this project was to foster the development of local businesses that remove and utilize western juniper in the Prineville
area. The Juniper Group believes that creating and expanding such businesses will help restore local watersheds; generate living wage employment in
value-added processing; create new long-term sources of finance for juniper treatments on public and private lands; and build community capacity to
envision and implement sustainability projects
The specific objectives of this project were to complete a western juniper commercialization feasibility
study for the Prineville area and to communicate opportunities and key considerations to business people, community leaders and public lands agency
personnel. The core tasks of the feasibility study were to:
- Define the supply of juniper material for the Prineville area
- Prioritize areas for treatment based on anticipated ecological benefits
- Analyze costs and considerations of harvesting and transporting juniper material
- Characterize and map the road network available for performing juniper operations
- Identify public finance available to share costs of supply provision and business start-up
The links below include the final project report as well as other project deliverables such as maps and survey data.
Project Reports and Products
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