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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.

A step-by-step guide for how to get STEW-MAP started in your city.

The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) by funding Project 15-S-01-01 to identify and collect a set of critical measurements that will be used to advance wildland fire science knowledge and fire and smoke modeling capabilities. The project provided core leadership that developed a robust study plan and costing for a field campaign that would gather a novel set of observations, evaluate a selected set of models and use this information to advance operationally used fire a...

The Lake Tahoe West Collaborative Restoration Project study area contains 181 km or roads, 33.5 km of which are paved. Many of the unpaved roads are closed and covered with vegetation. An analysis of road surface erosion and sediment delivery using GIS topographic tools and the Water Erosion Prediction Project WEPP:Road Batch interface estimated that the current road network was delivering 55 Mg of sediment per year. Closing unpaved roads that are currently trafficked will reduce erosion by 20 percent. Traffic supporting thinning operations will on the average, increase sediment delivery by 19...

This Abbreviated Author Guidelines document has basic information on literature citations, table and figure formatting, and requirements for photographs.