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- Community forests (CFs) involve communities in decision-making about, management of and access to forests, and have potential to benefit both communities and forests. However, they lack a single definition, clear distinction from related topics, or method for identification. This perspectives article explores historical and current literature on CFs and proposes a conceptual framework for understanding CFs and related concepts in the U.S. context. Through that exploration, we propose a conceptual framework for understanding their meaning and relationship. We propose three potential...AuthorsGregory E. Frey, Reem Hajjar, Susan Charnley, Kathleen McGinley, John Schelhas, Nathan A. Tarr, Lauren McCaskill, Frederick W. CubbageKeywordsSourceSociety & Natural ResourcesYear2024
- The Forest Health Monitoring Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service produces an annual national report that presents recent forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective and introduces new techniques to analyze forest health condition. In this 23rd edition of annual reports, national Insect and Disease Survey (IDS) data are used to identify recent spatial patterns of areas affected by insects and diseases. Satellite data are employed to detect geographic patterns of forest fire occurrence. Data collected by the Forest Inventory...AuthorsK. Pandit, Barbara ConklingKeywordsSourceGen. Tech. Rep. WO-105. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.Year2024
- Managed burning of forests can provide benefits to society including mitigated wildfire risk, improved habitat, and more. However, adverse outcomes of escaped fire or smoke pose risks. I reviewed the evolution of the law regulating forest management burns, explored the current legal architecture, and analyzed the economic incentives for involved actors, in order to identify policy options. Liability standards through most of the twentieth century increasingly placed risk burden on landowners and burners, but increased recognition of the benefits of burns led many States to reverse this...AuthorsGregory E. FreyKeywordsSourceEnvironmental Law ReviewYear2024
- Torreya taxifoliaArn. (Florida torreya) is a critically endangered (International Union for Conservation of Nature 3.1) conifer with a very limited native range in the USA, occurring in two counties in Florida and one in Georgia where it persists in ravines along the Apalachicola River. The species suffered a major decline, ∼ 99% loss, beginning in the 1930s, with a total population estimated at 357,500 in the early 1900s decreasing to 1,000 individuals currently remaining in the wild. The initial decline was attributed to an unknown fungal disease with Fusarium torreyae(T. Aoki, J. A....AuthorsTyler J. Dreaden, Katherine E. Smith, C. Dana Nelson, Emily E. D. Coffey, Lauren Eserman, Jason A. SmithSourceThe Journal of the Torrey Botanical SocietyYear2024
- AuthorsKaty Crout, Albert (Bud) E. Mayfield, Julia Kerrigan, Jess HartshornSourceJournal of Economic EntomologyYear2024
- Anthropogenic climate change is altering patterns of extreme weather events across the planet, with far-ranging consequences for biodiversity. Increases in the frequency, duration, and severity of droughts are anticipated to substantially impact natural ecosystems. Here, we predicted the extent to which 1221 terrestrial vertebrates in the contiguous United States will be increasingly exposed to annual (12-month) and prolonged (36-month) drought, under three global climate models and two representative concentration pathways. On average, a377% increase in annual drought exposure and a 579%...AuthorsJennifer Costanza, R. A. Peek, J. M. Mola, Zachary Steel, M. van den BoschKeywordsSourceCommunications Earth and Environment. 5: 708.Year2024
- The timing of climate adaptation decisions can have substantial consequences for the assessment of climate damages. Since weather variability can create risks for natural resource management that differ across adaptation choices, such variability has the potential to alter the speed of climate adaptation. This paper estimates the effect of weather variability on the timing of adaptation decisions of forest landowners in the Eastern United States. A discrete-choice econometric model of forest management is estimated and used in a bio-economic simulation that shows how variability in cold...AuthorsK.K. Johnson, D.J. LewisSourceJournalYear2024
- Prescribed fire is an essential strategy employed by natural resource managers to serve ecological objectives of fire management. However, limited operational resources, environmental conditions, and competing goals result in a finite number of burn days, which need to be allocated towards maximizing the overall benefits attainable with fire management. We developed a decision-support framework and a burn prioritization model for wetlands and wildland-urban interfaces in Everglades National Park (Florida, USA). The model included criteria relative to the conservation of plant communities,...AuthorsAndrea Nocentini, Caryl Alarcon, Michael Gue, Troy Mullins, Pablo Ruiz, Mayavati Tupaj, John Kominosky, Joseph J. O'Brien, Michael RossKeywordsSourceResearch SquareYear2024
- AuthorsValentin Journé, Michał Bogdziewicz, Benoit Courbaud, Georges Kunstler, Tong Qiu, Marie‐Claire Aravena Acuña, Davide Ascoli, Yves Bergeron, Daniel Berveiller, Thomas Boivin, Raul Bonal, Thomas Caignard, Maxime Cailleret, Rafael Calama, J. Julio Camarero, Chia‐Hao Chang‐Yang, Jerome Chave, Francesco Chianucci, Thomas Curt, Andrea Cutini, Adrian Das, Evangelia Daskalakou, Hendrik Davi, Nicolas Delpierre, Sylvain Delzon, Michael Dietze, Sergio Donoso Calderon, Laurent Dormont, Josep Maria Espelta, William Farfan‐Rios, Michael Fenner, Jerry Franklin, Catherine Gehring, Gregory Gilbert, Georg Gratzer, Cathryn H. Greenberg, Arthur Guignabert, Qinfeng Guo, Andrew Hacket‐Pain, Arndt Hampe, Qingmin Han, Mick E. Hanley, Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Jan Holík, Kazuhiko Hoshizaki, Ines Ibanez, Jill F. Johnstone, Johannes M. H. Knops, Richard K. Kobe, Hiroko Kurokawa, Jonathan Lageard, Jalene LaMontagne, Mateusz Ledwon, François Lefèvre, Theodor Leininger, Jean‐Marc Limousin, James Lutz, Diana Macias, Anders Mårell, Eliot McIntire, Emily V Moran, Renzo Motta, Jonathan Myers, Thomas A. Nagel, Shoji Naoe, Mahoko Noguchi, Julian Norghauer, Michio Oguro, Jean‐Marc Ourcival, Robert Parmenter, Ian Pearse, Ignacio M. Pérez‐Ramos, Łukasz Piechnik, Tomasz Podgórski, John Poulsen, Miranda D. Redmond, Chantal D. Reid, Pavel Samonil, C. Lane Scher, William H. Schlesinger, Barbara Seget, Shubhi Sharma, Mitsue Shibata, Miles Silman, Michael Steele, Nathan Stephenson, Jacob Straub, Samantha Sutton, Jennifer J. Swenson, Margaret Swift, Peter A. Thomas, Maria Uriarte, Giorgio Vacchiano, Amy Whipple, Thomas Whitham, S. Joseph Wright, Kai Zhu, Jess Zimmerman, Magdalena Żywiec, James S. ClarkKeywordsSourceEcology LettersYear2024
- BackgroundCrown scorch—the heating of live leaves, needles, and buds in the vegetative canopy to lethal temperatures without widespread combustion—is one of the most common fire effects shaping post-fire canopies. Despite the ability of computational fluid dynamic models to finely resolve fire activity and buoyant plume dynamics including heterogenous 3D distributions of forest canopy heating, these models have had only limited use in simulating fire effects and have not been used to evaluate crown scorch. Here, we demonstrate a method of evaluating crown scorch using a computational fluid...AuthorsChad M. Hoffman, Adam L. Atchley, Sophie R. Bonner, Scott Ritter, Joseph J. O'Brien, Rodman R. LinnKeywordsSourceFire EcologyYear2024