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WildfireSAFE: A tool to provide rapid, actionable intelligence to inform risk-based decision making for wildland fire operationsTranscript

WildfireSAFE: A tool to provide rapid, actionable intelligence to inform risk-based decision making for wildland fire operationsScience You Can Use Webinar - May 14, 2020Presentation slides

No fish left behind: Best practices for using environmental DNA sampling to inform fish eradication effortsTranscript of Webinar - May 6, 2020

This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2020 annual forest inventory of Alaska.

This manual describes the standards, codes, methods, and definitions for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) field data items used for urban FIA inventories of San Diego, CA and Portland, OR by the PNW-FIA unit in 2020.

The FIA Annual Business Reports evaluate the performance of the FIA program to ensure accountability and transparency to FIA partners, supporters and customers. Modeled on a corporate business report, they contain basic business information about the FIA program including accomplishments, performance measures, plans for the next fiscal year, agreements with other parties, and basic financial and staffing data. These reports are prepared by the National Office staff of the FIA Program, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Washington, DC.See more information for fiscal years 2021 and ...

Reopening abandoned forest roads altars the runoff and soil loss processes in a watershed. In this study, a forest watershed was chosen and abandoned roads were manually identified, aided by a high-resolution LiDAR topographic image and historic photographic images. GIS technologies were the used to describe topographic details and estimate runoff and erosion from a 10-m cell size non-road digital elevation model (DEM) for hillslopes. A 1-m cell size DEM was used to evaluate current effects of the road network, and a modified 1-m DEM to evaluate reopening closed roads with either an insloping ...