Treesearch

Information presented here, was obtained generally from 3 sources: the Cooperative Forest Health Protection Program, the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program and the National Forest Health Monitoring Program. The Cooperative Forest Health Protection Program is a joint State-Federal effort responsible for forest-wide surveys of forest damage. From these surveys, we gather information about the nature and extent of insect, disease, and weather caused damage to trees and forests. These surveys are conducted by State and Federal pest specialists.

There are currently only about 7,900 acres (3,200 ha) of remnant old-growth forest in Missouri, but public land management plans call for old-growth acreage to increase to more than 200,000 acres (81,000 ha). To develop a better quantitative understanding of the transitions that are likely as current forests mature to an old-growth state, we compared a number of characteristics measured for two old-growth sites with values for two mature second-growth sites.

Forest ecosystems of the Allegheny Plateau region of Pennsylvania have become impoverished as a result of over-browsing by white-tailed deer for more than 50 years.

Two years ago, Ohio State Park developed a methodology of measuring customer satisfaction, to gauge the effectiveness of our customer service. What follows is a discussion of our installation of systems to measure and improve customer satisfaction, the interpretation of the data, and the positive results we have enjoyed.