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The NYC Urban Field Station is located within Fort Totten Park in Bayside, Queens. Please use this map for directions to Fort Totten.

What is biochar and how can a manager make it and use it? Learn the basics of biochar in this Biochar at a Glance.

Technology transfer (“tech transfer”) and science delivery at the USDA Forest Service R&D, with the goal to enhance the utility of scientific information, is defined as pulling together and synthesizing information from a range of disciplines and delivering it in clear and accessible formats to fit user needs. USDA Forest Service science is complex, but the need for research is simple. Land managers, forest managers, city planners, and policymakers need sound science on all aspects of the natural world and its complex connections with people to make decisions resulting in a healthy and sustain...

For more than 90 years, the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program has played an integral role in providing the information vital to the management and conservation of the Nation’s Forest resources. In recent years, an increased number of major decisions regarding the Nation’s forests have been made with reference to and reliance on FIA findings and forest resource evaluations. Today, FIA data is the authoritative source to inform carbon measuring, monitoring, reporting, and verifying (MMRV), as well as to support the sustainable management and conservation of forests, water resources, bi...

This is a collaborative research and outreach project created by the US Forest Service (Northern Research Station) ten years ago to better understand and support stewardship. It has been applied in a number of places internationally.