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Researchers and collaborators developed a method for using field plot data and lidar to map fuel loads across the Kaibab Plateau in Arizona.

The 2021 Forest Health Monitoring report includes short- and long-term forest health assessments from the continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, and the U.S. Caribbean territories. Specific chapters address status and trends in forest wildfire, drought, insect and disease effects, tree mortality, and satellite-detected canopy disturbance

The Forest Service, in cooperation with University of Idaho College of Natural Resources and Air Burners, Inc., co-hosted a demonstration of the brand new CharBoss®. Representatives from federal, state, local, and Tribal organizations were on-site to see the CharBoss® in action.

Forest biomass utilization is linked with federal, state, and local policies that govern what is used, how much is used, and the fate of the end product.

The Rocky Mountain Research Station co-leads a major state-wide connectivity conservation initiative in the Southwest.

In 1972, USDA Forest Service scientist Richard C. Rothermel published his pioneering fire modeling work. Fifty years later in 2022, it was commemorated as the most widely used tool for wildfire behavior modeling, not only in the US but throughout the world. The development of his model and the associated research was conducted in the 1960s and 1970s at the Forest Service Missoula Fire Sciences ...

Last year’s precipitation can impact how plants respond to rainfall this year. To better understand the importance of legacies of past precipitation on plant performance, we tested the impact of year-to-year changes in precipitation on current plant responses with the candidate biofuel species Panicum virgatum (switchgrass).

Growing seasons on U.S. rangelands are projected to decrease substantially by mid-to-late century.

Should wilderness be understood as primarily untrammeled or primarily natural, and what are the implications of this for the role of wilderness in 21st century conservation?

Severe drought and wildfires lead to rapid decline in mature conifers in Sierra Nevada forests.

Development, physiological mechanisms, fitness consequences, and phylogenetic history offer different perspectives on why phenological differences between males and females exist.

Clonal growth of the invasive smooth brome is greater than the native western wheatgrass except under the most intermittent precipitation climate change scenario.

Herbicide resistance is most likely to develop in annual plant species with persistent seed banks occurring outside of riparian or wetland areas.

Understanding the public health benefits and costs of prescribed fire.

A study on how fire influences air movement at small scales gives researchers insight into wind patterns in larger fires - a critical component of modeling tools for practitioners.

Microbiome approaches help untangle how microbes respond to post-fire organic matter inputs to saturated beaver pond sediments.

Models are only as good as their input data – and we developed better input data for modeling forest change effects on water supply.

Forest Service researchers provide agency land managers with science-based resources for restoring upland oaks by collecting acorns, growing, and planting high-quality seedlings.

In 2018, Hurricane Michael damaged millions of acres of forest. Forest Inventory and Analysis conducted a damage assessment for affected states and documented the impacts to timber and other resources.

Scientists examined extreme fire spread events and area burned under recent climates and future climate projections in the western U.S.