Explore the many benefits forests provide, understand today’s challenges to this renewable resource, and learn about forest management and conservation.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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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
#NewPublication : Insect and Disease Disturbances Correlate With Reduced Carbon Sequestration in Forests of the Contiguous United States
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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
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
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.
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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
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
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