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Seeds of Success (SOS) is a national seed collection program led by the Bureau of Land Management. SOS represents the most comprehensive native seed repository in the United States, supporting native plant restoration, management, and research. Since inception in 2000, SOS has collected seeds from over 24,400 native plant populations from ~5,600 taxa from 43 states. Collections include species important to wildlife, pollinators, and indigenous people, and over 10,000 collections have been shared for restoration and research use. We asked how many SOS sites have burned since collection, and...

Every year, the four federal agencies that manage designated wilderness in the United States receive proposals to implement small- and large-scale ecological restorations within the National Wilderness Preservation System. The combination of climate change with other landscape stressors is driving ecological restoration to be one of the single most important, challenging, and potentially litigious wilderness stewardship issues. In addition, different stakeholders may have strongly divergent views about what the right decision should be, and decisions need to go beyond routine technical and...

This Resource Bulletin is part of a series of reports presenting findings from a census of Montana’s primary forest products industry. Part II of the series presents information on the forest products sectors that processed timber and mill residue into finished products in 2014.

This Resource Bulletin is part of a series of reports presenting findings from a census of Montana’s primary forest products industry. Part III of the series presents information on sales value and employment associated with primary wood products manufacturing, the economic contribution of forest products manufacturing in the State, and an analysis of the broader forest industry and how it has changed over time. All dollar figures included have been adjusted for inflation to constant 2014 dollars, unless otherwise noted.

The University of Montana’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER), in conjunction with the Interior West Forest Inventory and Analysis (IW-FIA) Program of the US Forest Service, conducted a census of Montana’s timber processors that operated during calendar year 2014. Through a written questionnaire, phone or inperson interview, timber-processing and residue-utilizing facilities provided information about their 2014 operations, including: plant location, production, capacity, and employment; volume of raw material received, by county and ownership; species of timber received and...

This Resource Bulletin is part of a series of reports presenting findings from a census of Montana’s primary forest products industry. Part I of this series presents information on the volume of timber harvested in the State in 2014 by product, ownership, species and resource area. It also describes timber flow within the State and across State lines.

The Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (RPA) mandates a periodic assessment of the conditions and trends of the Nation’s renewable resources on forests and rangelands. The 2020 RPA Assessment will evaluate the future of the Nation’s renewable natural resources through 2070. This publication describes the process used to select a set of four integrated scenarios to represent a plausible span of socioeconomic and climate futures that underpin the natural resource analyses. These four scenarios, and their associated assumptions about population change, economic...

Worldwide, freshwater ecosystems are threatened by invasive species, resulting in adverse effects on infrastructure, economy, recreation, and native aquatic communities. In stream settings, chemical piscicides can be an effective tool for eradicating invasive fishes. However, chemical treatments are expensive and time consuming, and they do not discriminate between invasive and native species in a system. Therefore, managers would ideally limit treatment to only the area occupied by the invasive species. Because traditional survey methods may not accurately detect individuals in low...

The top priority of fire management agencies in Canada is to protect human life and property. Here we investigate if decades of aggressive fire suppression in the boreal biome of Canada has reduced the proportion of recently burned forests near human communities, and thereby inadvertently increased the risk of wildfire. We measured the percentage of RBF, which are usually less flammable than older forests, up to a 25-km radius around communities compared to that in the surrounding regional fire regime zone. Our analysis of 160 communities across boreal Canada shows that 54.4% exhibited a...

We integrated a widely used forest growth and management model, the Forest Vegetation Simulator, with the FSim large wildfire simulator to study how management policies affected future wildfire over 50 years on a 1.3 million ha study area comprised of a US national forest and adjacent lands. The model leverages decades of research and development on the respective forest growth and wildfire simulation models, and their integration creates a strategic forest landscape model that has a high degree of transparency in the existing user communities. The study area has been targeted for forest...