New Business for a Small Alabama Town
Trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value
Electronic Noses and Forests?
Heat Treating Wooden Ammunition Pallets for Invasive Species
New Business for a Small Alabama Town
Economic conditionsmeant bad news for much of the South’s forest industry. Recently, the Forest Inventory and Analysis (unit of the USFS Southern Research Station worked with a leading manufacturer to bring good news to one hard-hit community. More »
Trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value
America’s urban forests store an estimated 708 million tons of carbon, an environmental service with an estimated value of $50 billion, according to a recent USFS study. More »
Electronic Noses and Forests?
What if a machine could detect insects and diseases in living trees or help prevent log theft and illegal logging by tracking individual logs from the forest to the lumberyard? More »
Heat Treating Wooden Ammunition Pallets for Invasive Species
USFS researchers have initiated a series of studies to investigate the causes of wooden pallet degradation associated with heat treatments and subsequent pallet defects. More »
What's New
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Dr. Brian Sturtevant from the Northern Research Station describes a natural experiment for spruce budworm. More » -
Conservation easements have been an important tool for conserving private lands and retaining working landscapes for farming and forestry, but creating the conservation easement is only part of the story. This program will discuss some of the common challenges associated with monitoring and enforcing conservation easements. More » -
This project addresses the impact of climate change and melting glaciers on the fluxes of fresh water, and of the essential nutrients nitrate and iron, on the coastal ecosystem in the Copper River region of the Gulf of Alaska. More » -
USFS Climate Change Advisor Dave Cleaves discusses the USFS report "Effects of Climatic Variability and Change on Forest Ecosystems". The report looks at the current condition and likely future condition of forest resources in the US relative to climate variability. More »
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Working to sustain and improve our national forests Through innovative scientific research, Theresa Benavidez Jain is ensuring America’s gnational forests will thrive in the future. As a researcher with the USFS, Jain works with forest managers, landowners and the American public to develop and implement new land management strategies. More »
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Brood II: After 17 years, billions of eastern US cicadas rise again If you live on the East Coast and enjoy a walk in the woods or a tree-filled park, for the past 17 years you almost certainly have been walking over buried, juvenile cicadas, one of the most remarkable – and annoying – insects on the planet. Now, it's their turn on stage. More »
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Where does charcoal, or black carbon, in soils go? Scientists have uncovered one of nature's long-kept secrets—the true fate of charcoal in the world's soils. The ability to determine the fate of charcoal is critical to knowledge of the global carbon budget, which in turn can help understand and mitigate climate change. More »
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Let's Talk About Birds: The black-and-white warbler A group of birds known as warblers virtually define migration for the birdwatcher. Highly active and often brightly colored, most warblers pass through Pittsburgh in waves, primarily in May and October each year. More »
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Wildfires, naturally occurring forest fires and climate change The connection between climate change and the frequency of wildfires is undeniable. US Forest Service scientists project that by 2050, lands burned by wildfires every year will at least double to around 20 million acres nationwide. More »
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