Documents

Forest Service Briefs

Science-Management Collaborations: Developing Adaptation Options for National Forests - Short Subjects from Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4 (March 2010, 2pp, 827 K)

National Forest Management Options in Response to Climate Change - Short Subjects from Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4 (July 2009, 2pp, 590 K)

Effects of Climate Change on Forest Service Strategic Goals - Short Subjects from Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.4 (January 2010, 2pp, 630 K)

Climate Change and Water (June 2008, 4pp, 550K)

What the Forest Service is Doing About Climate Change (Feb. 2008, 2 pp, 825 K)

Forest Service Publications

National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change (2010, 30pp, 668K)

An Annotated Bibliography of Scientific Literature on Managing Forests for Carbon Benefits (2010, 49pp, 406K)

Engaging Western Landowners in Climate Change Mitigation: A Guide to Carbon-Oriented Forest and Range Management and Carbon Market Opportunities (December 2009, 94pp)

Forest Service Global Change Research Strategy, 2009-2019 (June 2009, 20pp, 1.6MB)

Forest Service Strategic Framework for Responding to Climate Change (October 2008, 21pp, 294K)

U.S. Global Change Research Program Synthesis and Assessment Products

Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems - SAP 4.2 (Jan. 2009, 1.9 MB)

Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems - SAP 4.6 (September 2008, 204 pp, 3.6 MB)

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources SAP 4.4 (Jun. 2008, 20 MB)

The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States - SAP 4.3 (May 2008, 252 pp, 63 MB)

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CIRMOUNT Committee

Mapping New Terrain: Climate Change and the American West (July 2006, 32 pp, 4.7 MB)

CIRMOUNT Newsletter – Mountain Views (Multiple Issues)

Newsletters

Newsletter of the Mountain Research Initiative (multiple issues)

Research Review - Northern Research Station

Volume 10 - A Climate Change Response Framework for the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest. (Summer 2010, 6 pp, 2.03 MB)

Volume 3 - Carbon Accounting: Measuring the Contribution of Forests to Solving the Climate Change Problem. (Spring 2008, 6 pp, 716 K)

Volume 1 - Global Climate Change: What Could Happen to Our Northern Forests? (Summer 2007, 6 pp, 1.4 MB)

Science Findings—Pacific Northwest Research Station

Issue 122 - Life on the edge: carbon fluxes from wetland to ocean along Alaska's coastal temperate rain forest (April 2010, 6 pp, 3.2 MB) - Featured scientists Rick Edwards and Dave D'Amore

Issue 117 - Bioenergy from trees: using cost-effective thinning to reduce forest fire hazards (October 2009, 6 pp, 2.8 MB) - Featured scientists Jeremy Fried and Jamie Barbour

Issue 116 - We're all in this together: decisionmaking to address climate change in a complex world (September 2009, 6 pp, 2.3 MB) - Featured scientist Ralph Alig

Issue 113 - Land use planning: a time-tested approach for addressing climate change (June 2009, 6 pp, 607 K) - Featured scientists Jeff Kline, and Jim Cathcart

Issue 97 - Running dry: where will the West get its water? (October 2007, 6 pp, 796 K) - Featured scientist Gordon Grant

Issue 94 - Mountain Meadows—Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Meadow Science and Restoration (June 2007, 6 pp, 897 K) - Featured scientist Fred Swanson

Issue 93 - The Mysterious Demise of an Ice-Age Relic. Exposing the Cause of Yellow-cedar Decline (May 2007, 6 pp, 816 K) - Featured scientists Paul Hennon, and Dave D'Amore

Issue 78 - Acting on Uncertainty in Landscape management—Options Forestry (November 2005, 6 pp, 671 K) - Featured scientists Bernard Bormann and Ross Kiester

Issue 75 - Climate Change and California: Potential Implications for Vegetation, Carbon, and Fire (August 2005, 6 pp, 664 K) - Featured scientist Jim Lenihan

Issue 74 - Fanning the Flames: Climate Change Stacks Odds Against Fire Suppression (July 2005, 6 pp, 646 K) - Featured scientist Jeremy Fried

Issue 73 - Keeping it cool: unraveling the influences on stream temperature (June 2005, 6 pp, 1.6 K) - Featured scientists Sherri Johnson and Steve Wondzell

Issue 44 - Is Carbon Storage Enough? Can Plants Adapt? New Questions in Climate Change Research (May 2002, 6 pp, 81 K) - Featured scientist Ronald P. Neilson

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Science Updates - Pacific Northwest Research Station

Issue 17 - Changing with the climate (Summer 2008, 12 pp, 2.6 MB)

Issue 6 - Western Forest, Fire Risk, and Climate Change. (January 2004, 12 pp, 1.6 MB)

Science Perspectives—Pacific Southwest Research Station

PSW-SP-011 - Greener Cities: U.S. Forest Service software package helps cities manage their urban treescape (Fall 2008, 6 pp, 2.4 MB) - Featured scientist Greg McPherson

PSW-SP-007 - Restoring Forest Health (Summer 2006, 6 pp, 2.5 MB) - Featured scientist Malcolm M. North

PSW-SP-004 - Managing Wildland Fires: Integrating Weather Models Into Fire Projections (Fall 2004, 6 pp, 5.2 MB) - Featured scientist Francis Fujioka

PSW-SP-003 - Air Pollution: Worldwide Effects on Mountain Forests (Spring 2004, 6 pages, 1 MB) - Featured scientist Andrzej Bytnerowicz

PSW-SP-002 - High Sierra Ecosystems: The Role of Fish Stocking in Amphibian Declines (Fall 2003, 6 pp, 1.5 MB) - Featured scientist Kathleen Matthews

PSW-SP-001 - Climate Change: Detecting Climate's Imprint on California Forests (Spring 2003, 6 pp, 1 MB) - Featured scientist Connie Millar

Compass - Southern Research Station

Issue 10 - What do forests have to do with global climate change? (February 2008, 60 pp, 6.49 MB)