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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service released a new 10-year plan, Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests, to substantially reduce fire risk across the country. The Wildfire Crisis Strategy calls for ramping up forest treatments on Federal, State, Tribal, and private lands well above current levels. Public and stakeholder engagement, consultation, and collaboration are critical to successful implementation of the strategy. Best available science can inform how to...

Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi, WCT) were highly valued by Idaho’s Indigenous people and subsequent immigrants. Historically, WCT were extremely abundant, widely distributed, and the dominant trout in central and northern Idaho. Early 20th-century anglers enjoyed exceptional fishing; St. Joe River anglers reported WCT catches of 35 pounds in 1 hour! Despite restricted harvest and habitat protections since 1899, many Idaho WCT populations declined, primarily from habitat degradation and excessive harvest. By the 1960s, WCT in several major drainages were on the brink...

The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service’s Region 5 to Area Command Team (ACT) 2 was straightforward: Identify potential gaps between wildfire resource needs and resource availability for October through December 2020. The Fire Weather Outlook at this time was predicting that parts of California and the Southwest would see higher-than-usual fire activity into the fall and winter. In preparation for the worst-case scenario, the region needed to identify the regional and national availability of personnel and equipment, including crews, engines, aircraft, and...

This resource update is a brief look at some of the basic metrics that describe the status of and changes to forest resources in Missouri. This information is based on field data collected using the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annualized sample design, and it is updated yearly.Tables for Forests of MIssouri, 2021 can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-359-Tables.The FIA one-click application that generated this report can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FIA-One-Click-State-Report-v1.2

This resource update is a brief look at some of the basic metrics that describe the status of and changes to forest resources in Connecticut. This information is based on field data collected using the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annualized sample design, and it is updated yearly.Tables for Forests of Connecticut, 2021 can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-370-Tables.The FIA one-click application that generated this report can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FIA-One-Click-State-Report-v1.2.

This resource update is a brief look at some of the basic metrics that describe the status of and changes to forest resources in Rhode Island. This information is based on field data collected using the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) annualized sample design, and it is updated yearly.Tables for Forests of Rhode Island, 2021 can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FS-RU-372-Tables.The FIA one-click application that generated this report can be found at https://doi.org/10.2737/FIA-One-Click-State-Report-v1.2.

This summary report provides an overview of findings from the fourth annualized inventory of Delaware forests based on data collected from 2012 to 2018. Forest land area remained stable at 359,000 acres, and 51 percent of forest land is in the oak/hickory forest-type group. Forests in the State continue to mature, with 76 percent in large diameter stands and 65 percent in stands older than 60 years of age. Total live-tree net volume on timberland is 907 million cubic feet, and 92 percent of that volume is in growing-stock trees. Annual gross growth of 29 million cubic feet less annual...

This summary report provides an overview of findings from the fourth annualized inventory of Iowa forests based on data collected from 2012 to 2018. Forest land area remained stable at 2.9 million acres, and 69 percent of forest land is in the oak/hickory forest-type group. Forests in the State continue to mature, with 72 percent in large diameter stands and 50 percent in stands older than 60 years of age. Total live-tree net volume on timberland is 4.4 billion cubic feet, and 69 percent of that volume is in growing-stock trees. Decreases in gross growth (7 percent) and mortality (2...

Background: Historically, wildfire regimes produced important landscape-scale disturbances in many regions globally. The “pyrodiversity begets biodiversity” hypothesis suggests that wildfires that generate temporally and spatially heterogeneous mosaics of wildfire severity and post-burn recovery enhance biodiversity at landscape scales. However, river management has often led to channel incision that disconnects rivers from their floodplains, desiccating floodplain habitats and depleting groundwater. In conjunction with predicted increases in frequency, intensity and extent of wildfires...

Many women and women-run associations were involved in historical urban beautification in the United States, especially tree planting, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While men had formal roles as city foresters, arborists, horticulturalists, and landscape architects, women from elite families sometimes labored for free to organize and advocate for urban tree planting. Tightly knit social circles of high-society women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, yielded much greater influence in nascent tree planting and park creation movements than has generally been recognized. They often...