Environmental Engineering Reference
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FIGURE 16.1.
A map of California with Humboldt County highlighted.
cent job growth has been concentrated in sectors such as education, trade, transporta-
tion and utilities, government, and health care. These sectors are also the county's
largest employers. Job growth in these areas has offset the declines in natural re-
sources, mining and manufacturing jobs, although it can be argued that job quality—
measured in terms of wages, benefits, and job satisfaction—within the growing service
sectors is less than in the area's declining natural resources and manufacturing sectors.
Restoration activities included in this study fall under the general rubric of
salmonid, watershed, and ecosystem (e.g., coastal dune, estuary, meadow, forest) res-
toration projects whose primary purposes are to restore or enhance ecological condi-
tions. We do not consider restoration activities and practices embedded within re-
source management and extractive regimes, such as forestry or agriculture, nor do we
include studies of watershed and ecological processes that are not directly related to
