Forest Service policies and programs promote the integration of forest and watershed restoration with local economic development. For example, the Collaborative Landscape Restoration Program, stewardship contracting, and the Watershed Condition Framework all explicitly link rural community benefit and restoration. By providing opportunities for local businesses to restore and manage ecosystems, national forests and grasslands and their partners can help create jobs and build community capacity for watershed stewardship. However, you and your collaborators may not have deliberate strategies to make this happen. The purpose of this quick guide is to help you, as a national forests and grasslands staff person, work with key stakeholders and partners to develop and implement strategies to create jobs from restoration using tools already at your disposal.