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Sustainable management of protected areas requires attention to the structures, processes, institutions, and funding mechanisms that support them. When protected areas transcend multiple jurisdictions and landownerships, effective governance requires engagement of multiple institutions. In the United States, 11 National Scenic Trails (NSTs) extend across multiple states, landownerships, and jurisdictions, with regional and national partnerships enhancing management capacity. Trail governance requires a systems approach – coordinating among governmental and nongovernmental partners at...

In recent decades, digital communications have assumed an influential role in public discourse, including online forums where contributors write about their recreation and tourism experiences. Systematic study of the language practices used on these forums offers a tool to access and assess the complex social and cultural systems in which recreation takes place, deepening our understanding of how people construct meaning of outdoor experiences and how these meanings function collectively in society. In this article, we use thematic and discursive approaches to study how people represent...

In aggregate, March 2022 housing data were mostly positive. Housing starts were buoyed by multifamily starts. Total starts were at the greatest level since 2006, with single-family starts declining. Total permits remained subdued; single-family permits decreased, which may be a result of the difficulties in completing houses. Total housing units under construction were the most since March 1973. Housing completions also remained problematic as completions were restrained due to building materials and product shortages, combined with other factors. The disparity between the number of houses...

1. Coyotes Canis latrans have expanded their geographic range by 40% in thelast 120 years, raising questions about their ecological impacts in the newlycolonised areas. Despite a wealth of local knowledge on coyote diet in NorthAmerica, we have little information about how and why diet might varythroughout the species’ range. 2. We conducted the first rangewide meta-analysisof coyote diet by investigatinghow ecoregion, coyote mass, environmental conditions, presence of top predatorsand alternative food items are related to coyote dietary diversity, as wellas consumption of small mammals,...

Characterizing pre-fire fuel load and fuel consumption are critical for assessing fire behavior, fire effects, and smoke emissions. Two approaches for quantifying fuel load are airborne laser scanning (ALS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS). The implementation of multitemporal ALS (i.e., the use of two or more ALS datasets across time at a given location) in conjunction with empirical models trained with field data can be used to measure fuel and estimate fuel consumption from a fire. FCCS, adapted for use in LANDFIRE (LF), provides 30 m resolution estimates of fuel...

Global interest in reforestation to help mitigate climate change is increasing demand for nursery-produced seedlings. Often governments, the public, and non-profit organizations simplify reforestation to the physical act of tree planting without comprehension of the entirety of the process needed for reforestation to be successful. A range of tasks from planning to implementation to post-planting monitoring and care are necessary (i.e., the reforestation pipeline). And, often, a one-size-fits-all approach to reforestation is promoted without appreciation for the diversity of ecosystems...

We tested an empirical method to estimate daily actual evapotranspiration (AET) of a forested watershed in coastal South Carolina using measured daily shallow soil moisture (SM) and potential ET (PET) estimated using weather data by two methods, i) Penman-Monteith (P-M) and ii) Priestley-Taylor (P-T), and soil field capacity during the 2015–2016 period. This work was motivated by Domec and others (2012), who found the measured annual and monthly AET by the SM and water table fluctuation methods agreed to within 10 to 20 percent of the ET from eddy covariance measurements for a managed pine...

A collaborative above-ground protected termite field test was initiated by FPInnovations and the USDA Forest Service at sites in Ontario and Mississippi. The aims of the experiment were to compare the rate of attack in protected, above-ground exposures by the subterranean termite species, Reticulitermes flavipes, between northern (Ontario) and southern (Mississippi) test sites and to generate performance data to understand the resistance to termites of selected naturally durable North American species. After 5-years of exposure, termite attack was greater in untreated pine sapwood controls...

Mass timber has seen increased use as a building material for low and mid-rise construction in recent decades. The durability of mass timber elements has not been fully examined and the effects of wood destroying organisms on this these materials merits attention. The effectiveness of currently labeled soil termiticides and passively applied biocides at post-construction or as remedial agents needs to be evaluated for mass timber used in structures, particularly in areas with elevated risk of termite attack. The ability of soil insecticidal drenches or spray-on insecticide/fungicide...