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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)Program is the Nation’s continuous forest census. Since 1930, we have collected, analyzed, andreported information on the status and trends of America’s forests: how much forest exists, whereit exists, who owns it, and how it is changing — growing, dying, being harvested, or converted toand from forest land uses. In response to widening customer interests, the FIA developed a programthat was implemented in the same manner on all U.S. forest lands. This included sampling anextended suite of forest heal...

There are many community and civic groups that care for the lands and waters of Hawaiʻi. In so doing, these groups provide a vital service to maintaining the health, well-being, and resilience of our communities and ecosystems. However, many of their activities are undervalued or even unrecognized because there is limited public investment into assessing this non-agency based stewardship. The important roles of community leaders are particularly understudied. In response to these needs and to more comprehensively understand stewardship across geographical and social landscapes, the USDA Forest...

The accurate mapping of streams and their streamflow conditions in terms of presence or absence of surface water is important to both understanding physical, chemical, and biological processes in streams and to managing land, water, and ecological resources. This document describes a field form, FLOwPER (FLOw PERmanence), available within a mobile application (app), for standardized data collection of the presence or absence of surface flow in streams. The FLOwPER Database is a publicly available geodataset that can be used for research and management applications. This document provides instr...

Promoting the conservation of our urban trees and forests in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.

Promoting the conservation of our urban trees and forests in Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.