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- Tidal wetlands sequester carbon (C) at much higher rates per area than other ecosystems, helping to offset C emissions. The burial of organic C in tidal wetland soils, “blue C”, is tightly linked to the cycling of nitrogen (N), which is a key pollutant and limiting nutrient for many ecosystems. The large fluxes of N in and out of tidal wetlands can have strong impacts on surrounding water quality. However, the global burial rate of “blue nitrogen” and its potential response to future sea‐level rise (SLR) and wetland extent changes have not been quantified. Here, we assembled a global...AuthorsJ. Adam Langley, Samantha K. Chapman, Le Wang, Tania L. Maxwell, Phillip Rivera, M. F. Adame, Ariane Arias‐Ortiz, Christina Asanopoulos, J. F. Blanco, Josh L. Breithaupt, Steve W. J. Canty, Lisa G. Chambers, Jeffrey C. Cornwell, Christopher Craft, Sandra Cross, Ilka C. Feller, Daniel A. Friess, Anthony Grey, James Holmquist, Scott F. Jones, Johanna L. J. Jupin, Brian P. Kelleher, Jeffrey J. Kelleway, Matthew L. Kirwan, Ken W. Krauss, Catherine E. Lovelock, S. Alex McClellan, J. Patrick Megonigal, James T. Morris, Hannah Morrissette, Scott C. Neubauer, Melissa A. Pastore, Kerrylee Rogers, Andre S. Rovai, A. C. Ruiz‐Fernandez, Neil Saintilan, Joan‐Albert Sanchez‐Cabeza, Loraé T. Simpson, Craig Smeaton, Amanda C. Spivak, Havalend E. Steinmuller, Nathaniel B. WestonKeywordsSourceEarth's FutureYear2026
- Trees offset many challenges endemic to developed areas, like the urban heat island effect and stormwater runoff. Research has shown that urban areas are racially segregated, and there are broad inequities in the distribution of trees; minoritized neighborhoods have less tree canopy (“canopy”). Most research focuses within major city boundaries, while the majority of Americans live in the broader metropolitan region in suburban or exurban communities. While suburbs and exurbs are growing faster than cities and becoming more demographically diverse, little is known about metropolitan canopy...AuthorsLindsay E. Darling, Dexter H. Locke, Christine R. Rollinson, Roshanak (Roshi) Nateghi, Robert T. Fahey, Anita T. Morzillo, Brady S. HardimanSourceUrban Forestry & Urban GreeningYear2026
- Prescribed fire is an established means to reduce wildfire risk and accomplish silvicultural and cultural objectives via controlled consumption of fuels. Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) has been demonstrated as a simple and efficient means to quantify fuel and vegetation conditions in terms of three-dimensional forest structure and occupied volume at the plot-scale; however, there is currently a lack of studies that explore a repeat time series of TLS measurements for documenting fire treatment efficacy over time. We used a time-series approach to repeatedly scan 40 monitoring plots six...AuthorsAaron E. Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Samuel R. Stockton, Matthew C. Wozniak, Brenden E. McNeil, Julia A. Defeo, Alexis Everland, Nicholas SkowronskiKeywordsSourceFire EcologyYear2026
- Increasing terrestrial carbon storage can reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide levels as a climate mitigation strategy. Agricultural soil offers potential for persistent soil carbon sequestration. Mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) is generally more persistent than particulate organic carbon (POC), but it is unclear how much influence soil health and management can have on MAOC relative to climate and edaphic conditions. Soil samples from 196 agricultural fields on 77 farms throughout Vermont were fractionated by size to understand how these factors affect the amount and proportions of...AuthorsErin D. Lane, Kathyrn White, Alissa White, Julia Siegel, Heather Darby, Caitlin Hicks PriesKeywordsYear2026
- Canada’s forest sector must maintain wood supply, carbon storage, biodiversity, and social values as climate change and other global stressors increase the risk of disturbance and threaten forest resilience. Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) offers an important framework for integrating adaptation, mitigation, and socio-economic objectives, but practitioners often lack spatial decision support tools that connect stand-level actions to landscape-scale resilience under uncertain future conditions. We introduce DIVERSE, a pan-Canadian research partnership working across 22 managed-forest landscapes...AuthorsKevin A. Solarik, Morgane Dendoncker, Isabelle Aubin, Olivier Villemaire-Côté, Marie-Josée Fortin, Harry Nelson, Nelson Thiffault, Bradley D. Pinno, Madeleine Gauthier, Kathryn Knodel, Charles A. Nock, Clément Hardy, Andreas Hamann, Élise Filotas, Matthew Garcia, Hugh Scorah, Robert E. Froese, Douglas R. Turner, Fangliang He, F. Wayne Bell, Yan Boulanger, Jesus Pascual Puigdevall, Stephen J. Mayor, Kevin Webber, Keri Ardell, Lance W. Robinson, James W. N. Steenberg, Jean-François Bissonnette, Brian R. Sturtevant, Peter N. Duinker, Kirsten Vice, Peter B. Reich, Christian MessierKeywordsSourceThe Forestry ChronicleYear2026
- Place attachment provides a useful lens for understanding relationships with environments, highlighting how experiences, histories, social ties, and functional dependencies bond individuals with place. Disasters, however, threaten place, along with the social networks that provide support and reinforce ties to place. Here, we examine how dimensions of place attachment manifested in narratives about housing recovery after wildfires across northern California. Relying on 69 photo elicitation interviews with survivors that lost their primary homes to wildfire, we find that place identity,...AuthorsAlex Greer, Sherri Binder, Ayesha Islam, Ronald L. Schumann, Miranda H. MockrinSourceJournal of Environmental PsychologyYear2026
- Birds need our help, and you can make important contributions to their conservation. In this publication, we describe bird species of conservation concern in Missouri and explain how forestry practices can be used to benefit birds. The guidelines presented here can be applied whether your primary objective is to create habitat for bird species of concern, or to manage forests for forest products while incorporating bird conservation as a complementary objective. We present practices that support both bird conservation and the long-term sustainability and productivity of forest resources.AuthorsFrank R. Thompson, Jeff Powelson, Sarah W Kendrick, Stelzer Hank, Daniel C. Dey, Dana L Morris, Sheela P Turbek, Robert A. Pierce IIKeywordsSourceCentral Hardwoods Joint VentureYear2026
- 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 Ohio. 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...AuthorsForest Service. U.S. Department of AgricultureKeywordsYear2026
- Urban forests support wildlife populations across North America and the world. Yet, challenges remain for research and practice to integrate wildlife habitat as a core component of the myriad objectives that urban foresters manage. Ecosystem services have been adopted as a dominant paradigm in urban forestry for both advocacy and management, yet accounting for contributions to wildlife habitat does not fit squarely within typical ecosystem service frameworks. The i-Tree program, a suite of urban forest ecosystem service models and tools developed by the US Forest Service, presented an...AuthorsSusannah B. Lerman, Corinne Bassett, Daniel E. Crane, David J. Nowak, Alexis Ellis, Jason HenningSourceForestsYear2026
- Invasive wood-boring insects pose a major threat to forestry, recreation, and timber industries in the United States, and species such as the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) and redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyleborus glabratus) are already radically altering North American landscapes. The Asian longhorned beetle (ALB) (Anoplophora glabripennis) arrived in the United States via solid wood packing materials and continues to pose a massive threat to North American forests.Native to China and the Korean peninsula, ALB attacks more than 22 genera of trees, including maples, elms, poplars,...AuthorsR. Talbot Trotter III, Jennifer L. Chandler, Matthew RichardsonKeywordsSourceRooted in Research Issue 58. July 2026. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2 p.Year2026