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Draft User Guide for NED-3 software.

Accounting for the Benefits of Public LandsPresentation slides. Science You Can Use April 6, 2022.National Ecosystem Services Strategy Team (NESST)National Ecosystem Services Partnership

Scientists at the Rocky Mountain Research Station created the Fireshed Registry to show where fuel treatments are needed to stop fire transmission from national forests to developed areas. The Fireshed Registry is a geospatial dashboard for land managers and decision makers to view and map a vast array of data related to wildfire transmission, past, present, and future management, and past and predicted wildfires.

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service researchers and partners are working toward a proactive (rather than a reactive) approach to managing fire, with the goal of rapidly and substantially increasing the pace and scale of managing hazardous fuels.

This infographic depicts a landscape with a river, including the atmosphere and industrial activities (power plants and open-pit minelands) at the head of the watershed. Smokestacks release pollutants (mercury and sulfate) into the sky and a cloud delivers them via rain into the watershed. Text reads: "Mercury and sulfate deposition to the landscape via wet and dry deposition. Global burning of fossil fuels releases sulfur into the environment and produces greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change." Minelands contribute pollutants to the watershed through drainage. Text reads: "Local ...

Fire Effects on Soils - Recent Megafires Provide a Tipping Point for Desertification of Conifer EcosystemsScience You Can Use - March 30, 2022Presentation Slides

The OBIWAN App: Estimating Property-Level Carbon Storage Using NASA’s GEDI LidarScience You Can Use - March 9, 2022Presentation Slides

A Modern Approach to Quantifying Ungulate Carrying CapacityScience You Can Use - March 2, 2022Presentation Slides

Scientists from State, Federal, private, and tribal entities developed two predictive models – nutrition and habitat use - tailored for management application on elk (Cervus canadensis) summer range inwestern Oregon and western Washington. The models provide managers with user-friendly tools to evaluate nutritional and habitat conditions for elk at landscape scales commensurate with all-lands management. Model users can not only quantify current nutritional conditions and predicted habitat use by elk in summer, but also evaluate effects of proposed management actions, such as thinning or road ...