"Rural green jobs provide high quality, living-wage employment protecting, restoring, and stewarding environmental quality. They include jobs that restore and maintain ecosystem functions and services, such as clean air, clean water, forest and rangeland health and biodiversity, as well as those that reduce energy, material, and water consumption and move us toward a low-carbon economy".
SVS and the Lemhi County Forest Restoration Group are committed to tracking how forest restoration efforts affect the local economy and community. The majority of work in the Hughes Creek project area won't begin until later in 2010, but local workers are already realizing impressive benefits. To date, more than $200,000 in revenue has been earned by workers in Lemhi County. Another $13,000 went to regional workers from the Missoula, Montana area. Hughes Creek Socioeconomic Monitoring Report
The Idaho Department of Commerce estimates that the recreation and tourism industry is the 3rd largest industry in the state. In the Salmon River region, recreation and tourism are major economic drivers, bringing thousands of visitors to the area and dozens of jobs. Family-owned rafting, fishing, and hunting businesses keep dozens of families working and living in the Salmon River region.
Salmon now has curbside recycling! ESP Recycling
Salmon Valley Stewardship participates with other rural Westerners in the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC). The RVCC uses the following definition for rural green jobs:
Terry Myers and Michelle Tucker inventory aspen in the Hughes Creek drainage of the North Fork of the Salmon River.
Salmon man invents the Air Filter Blaster.
Dennis Grieve, with help from a furniture store owner and the Development Workshop, stands ready to mass-market his device.
click here to read the Idaho Falls Post Register December 9, 2010 news article.
