The State of America's Forests

Explore the many benefits forests provide, understand today’s challenges to this renewable resource, and learn about forest management and conservation.

[Brenda Mallory @BrendaMallory46]

One hundred years ago today, the Gila Wilderness was designated the first federal wilderness.

Today, there are 800 federally designated wilderness areas, comprising over 111 million acres.

[The State of America's Forests @USForests]

World-class athletes urge: Join the race to restoration https://t.co/rZrQ5DRUmd via @YouTube

[USDA Forest Service @forestservice]

What happens when a fire starts in the middle of nowhere in the roadless wildlands? Smokejumpers fly out & parachute in to put out that fire. These teams are a national resource, traveling to wherever they’re needed & jumping in in to rugged terrain. https://t.co/7GdjtG53i5

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Forest geneticist awarded $1.2 million NSF CAREER grant to study Douglas fir hybridization, genomics and adaptation to climate change - SCIENMAG https://t.co/pYlSaTiaa7

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New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis https://t.co/vVX6QwvSkF

[Society of American Foresters @foresters]

Emerging markets and non-traditional forest products are an important part of the utilization conversation. Watch Goods from the Woods for FREE on ForestEd to learn more on applying Forest Inventory and Analysis data https://t.co/IKnzs9LRsl

[The State of America's Forests @USForests]

Mosses and lichens growing in your city trees are discovered to be a free monitoring system to track pollution and detect dangerous hotspots to human health. Watch @forestservice #USDA_FIA researcher explaining how.
https://t.co/8GaA52gIxD

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NVIDIA to Build Earth-2 Supercomputer to See Our Future https://t.co/buLdjU1xFw

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NVIDIA will build the world’s most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to predicting climate change. Named Earth-2, the system would create a digital twin of Earth. Great potential for wildfire alert systems and emergency response. https://t.co/buLdjU1xFw

[Northern Research @usfs_nrs]

#NewPublication : Insect and Disease Disturbances Correlate With Reduced Carbon Sequestration in Forests of the Contiguous United States
https://t.co/giGjV47YSr

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Human activity and climate change-fueled disasters have turned 10 of the planet's internationally recognized forests, also known as World Heritage sites, from carbon absorbers into carbon emitters, researchers have found. https://t.co/M7VzgX0L3R via @UNESCO

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Smoke from both western wildfires may be more harmful to residents in the eastern United States than many think. https://t.co/se62aEr0E2

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The opinion of a CA incarcerated firefighter: “while we may have faced the heat of a wildfire for a few bucks a day, we may have saved a few homes and been happy doing so. We wanted to be there, where some of our dignity was returned to us.” https://t.co/pTBGCGiRBn

[The State of America's Forests @USForests]

30% of the World's tree species are threatened with extinction, and at least 142 tree species are extinct. Temperate zones of Europe, Asia and North America have the lowest % of threatened tree species, but also have relatively low tree diversity.
https://t.co/dUP6NQvyMu

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White cedar forests are dying. America’s East coast is loosing these natural barriers that act as pollutant filters, protect from storms, store carbon, and provide habitat to many species. https://t.co/OtgGcPFRAa

[The State of America's Forests @USForests]

Beyond the traditional understanding of wildfire impacts: smoke rising from Australia’s historic 2019 wildfires drifted out to sea and fertilized vast communities of algae thousands of mikes away. https://t.co/oD056ZQzOx

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One-in-three trees face extinction in wild, says new report. Ash in North America is one of them. https://t.co/vTxpoadRnn

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The @forestservice Forest Inventory and Analysis Program #USDA_FIA produces the authoritative forest data from 325,000 plots across 50 States and U.S. islands. Working for this program is a lot of fun! Watch it here https://t.co/TbWJ1y9PjW

[The State of America's Forests @USForests]

Beetle infestations are contributing to climate change, by transforming forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters. https://t.co/vUHxlGrixU