Throughout the country, about 1,400 projects are undertaken by RC&D councils each year. These include encouraging investments in local communities, setting up marketing cooperatives and promoting tourism. One RC&D council created a sizable, dependable reservoir to provide recreation for the community and to help stabilize the areas economy. Another RC&D council developed a wood products industry from an abundance of forest land in an area. Because of their extensive efforts, RC&D councils succeed in generating jobs for local citizens as well as improving communities. Each year they produce about 17,000 permanent jobs, save another 6,000 jobs, and create about 14,000 temporary jobs.