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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides this resource update yearly as an overview of forest resources in Rhode Island. These estimates are derived from field data collected across a systematic network of fixed-radius forest monitoring plots located on both public and private land. New updates are provided annually as a subset of plots within the State are remeasured. Each year, field crews visit and measure a subset of all FIA plots across the entire State (the size of the subset varies by State and year). Combining...

This article uses a knowledge exchange (KE)-based approach to evaluation to explore the reported experiences of artists, scientists, and land managers participating in the NaturePLACE Program (formerly Urban Field Station [UFS] Arts), focusing on the period 2016–2024. The primary aim of the program is to build understanding of and engagement with urban social-ecological systems through the arts. The approach to this evaluation draws on a range of literature on research in the arts, as well as research and KE impact evaluation from the environmental research domain. The evaluation reported...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides this resource update yearly as an overview of forest resources in New Jersey. These estimates are derived from field data collected across a systematic network of fixed-radius forest monitoring plots located on both public and private land. New updates are provided annually as a subset of plots within the State are remeasured. Each year, field crews visit and measure a subset of all FIA plots across the entire State (the size of the subset varies by State and year). Combining all...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides this resource update yearly as an overview of forest resources in New Hampshire. These estimates are derived from field data collected across a systematic network of fixed-radius forest monitoring plots located on both public and private land. New updates are provided annually as a subset of plots within the State are remeasured. Each year, field crews visit and measure a subset of all FIA plots across the entire State (the size of the subset varies by State and year). Combining...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides this resource update yearly as an overview of forest resources in Pennsylvania. These estimates are derived from field data collected across a systematic network of fixed-radius forest monitoring plots located on both public and private land. New updates are provided annually as a subset of plots within the State are remeasured. Each year, field crews visit and measure a subset of all FIA plots across the entire State (the size of the subset varies by State and year). Combining...

The National Woodland Owner Survey (NWOS) was developed in part to understand why private landowners—individuals, families, corporations, and other organizations – own forest land and what benefits and value that land provides. From the NWOS, we know that family forests provide many elements that forestry experts have traditionally emphasized—products such as wood and non-timber forest products and services such as recreation. However, the NWOS has also highlighted that these are not the primary ownership objectives for many family forest owners (FFOs), with other objectives such as...

Optimizing soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in pasture systems requires understanding the carbon storage capacity across the entire soil profile. Though SOC concentrations typically decline with depth, the large volume of subsurface soil means it can constitute more than half of the total SOC pool. Therefore, it is important to consider deeper soil layers beyond those typically sampled (i.e., 0–30 cm). Here, we quantified the SOC stocks to 1 m on 12 Vermont (USA) pastures. This SOC stock averaged 12.9 kg C m −2 (range 8.8–19.2), which is consistent with both SOC storage in US...

Weather and fuels are among the critical, interacting factors that drive wildland fire behavior, and thus are primary factors in fire operations planning and decision support tools. In mesic forests, variation in stand structure may lead to heterogeneous microclimate and fuel moisture conditions in the understory where fires often ignite and spread. However, such variation in fuel availability is often overlooked by fire behavior models that assume spatially uniform weather and fuel conditions. In this study, we analyze a combination of field-based understory meteorology and fuel moisture...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program provides this resource update yearly as an overview of forest resources in Indiana. These estimates are derived from field data collected across a systematic network of fixed-radius forest monitoring plots located on both public and private land. New updates are provided annually as a subset of plots within the State are remeasured. Each year, field crews visit and measure a subset of all FIA plots across the entire State (the size of the subset varies by State and year). Combining all...

Urban forests face challenges from invasive species, deer herbivory, and tree mortality, creating gaps where natural regeneration fails. We tested whether fast-growing hybrid Populus and Salix genotypes could facilitate urban forest restoration in post-emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) canopy gaps. We planted six genotypes of each genus using two methods—potted trees and direct-planted cuttings across five 21 × 21-meter plots in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. We assessed initial light availability above each planted tree as canopy leaf area index (LAI). From 2021–2023, we measured...