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Wild cards are improbable, high impact events. Such events, like the COVID-19 pandemic, have the ability to shape policy by upending entire systems and paradigms. Unfortunately, long-term planning and policymaking rarely account for wild card events. Instead, planning and policymaking typically assume that existing trends will continue without major disruption. Moreover, adequately planning for potential wild card events is challenging because they are inherently difficult to predict. However, planning for wild card events in natural resources and environmental policymaking is vital as...

This document presents forest carbon stocks and stand-level total volume for common reforestation scenarios in the United States. Eight geographic regions and 13 forest types are represented. These tables complement recent estimates of forest carbon stocks in the conterminous United States (Hoover et al. 2021) and were developed with a similar approach, using the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Vegetation Simulator and starting from a "bare ground" condition. The regions, types, and scenarios were selected based on data from the Forest Service and reforestation partner organizations and...

Non-native insect pests can have significant effects on forest ecosystems. Forest fruit-targeting non-native insect pests may cause extensive damage to fruits, reducing food for fruit-tracking wildlife. Parasitism of forest fruits by spotted wing Drosophila (Drosophila suzukii, SWD) may put it in competition for fruits with fruit-consuming forest songbirds during their post-breeding and migration seasons. Our objective was to identify factors, primarily SWD abundance and fruit parasitism, influencing frugivorous and non-frugivorous bird relative abundance and species richness in regeneratin...

Capturing the social dynamic processes among household members that work to shape consumption patterns presents a complex problem for household resource conservation studies. To bridge the gap between the individual and household, we propose and test a series of quantitative measures that explore the underlying structure of household social dynamic processes through the lens of social practice theory. Based on previous qualitative research, we develop measures to test five distinct social dynamic processes that either encourage or deter pro-environmental action: enhancing, norming,...