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Foresight is essential for long-term planning and forward-looking decision-making in forestry, where planning horizons often span many decades. But generating foresight is challenging due to the increasing pace and complexity of change and growing uncertainty about the future. Most change that could affect or even disrupt forestry in the future originates outside of the field, such as social, technological, economic, and environmental changes. The Forest Futures Horizon Scanning project (Forest Horizons) aims to generate foresight by identifying early signals of change from outside...

The 3-30-300 rule offers benchmarks for cities to promote equitable nature access. It dictates that individuals should see three trees from their dwelling, have 30 % tree canopy in their neighborhood, and live within 300 m of a high-quality green space. Implementing this demands thorough measurement, monitoring, and evaluation methods, yet little guidance is currently available to pursue these actions. To overcome this gap, we employed an expert-based consensus approach to review the available ways to measure 3-30-300 as well as each measure’s strengths and weaknesses. We described seven...

The City of Santa Fe is well known for arts, food, and architecture, but it also faces significant risk of wildfire. In 2020, the City of Santa Fe partnered with the Wildfire Research (WiRē) team with the goal of better understanding the needs of residents within the study area and their level of support for wildfire risk mitigation programs. The resulting project centers on two types of property-level data: rapid wildfire risk assessment data and household survey data. We followed the WiRē Rapid Wildfire Risk Assessment (WiRē RA) protocol, which measures parcel-level risk as the sum of a...

Rhode Island forests accounted for a total of 505.0 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 393.8 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in Rhode Island. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

South Dakota forests accounted for a total of 14,085 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 19,552 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in South Dakota. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

Vermont forests accounted for a total of 27,206 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 17,730 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in Vermont. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

West Virginia forests accounted for a total of 68,989 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 138,701 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in West Virginia. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

Wisconsin forests accounted for a total of 332,927 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 316,258 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in Wisconsin. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

North Dakota forests accounted for a total of 83.87 thousand cubic feet (MCF) of timber products while the forest products industry produced a total of 115.8 MCF within the State. This resource update contains the findings of a survey conducted on a sample of all primary wood-using mills in North Dakota. It complements the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annual inventory of volume and removals.

Tropical cyclones are an important cause of forest disturbance, and major storms caused severe structural damage and elevated tree mortality in coastal tropical forests. Model capabilities that can be used to understand post-hurricane forest recovery are still limited. We use a vegetation demography model, the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem Simulator, coupled with the Energy Exascale Earth System Model Land Model (ELM-FATES) to study the processes and the key factors regulating post-hurricane forest recovery. We implemented hurricane-induced forest damage, including defoliatio...