Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Publications

Displaying 31 - 45 of 171

A Strategy to Expand Prescribed Fire Training in the West

The Forest Service and the greater wildland fire community are working together to expand the pace and scale of forest health treatments in the west. This document details the steps taken and planned to improve the quality of and access to prescribed fire training.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1229
Year:

National Report on Sustainable Forests, 2020

This decadal report uses international criteria known as the Montreal Process to analyze the long-term health and sustainability of forests in the United States. Focusing on how forests are managed, the criteria include indicators on biodiversity, soil and water health, productivity, socioeconomic benefits, and more.

Topic: Science and Technology
Type: General
Number: FS-1217
Year:

Interagency Hotshot Crew Programmatic Review

The Forest Service, along with interagency partners from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and State agencies assembled the Interagency Hotshot Crew Programmatic Review report. The report presents 50 recommendations for changes to the hotshot program under eight themes: pay, well-being, facilities, hiring processes, mission, organizational structure, crew organization and staffing, and vehicles.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1225
Year:

Community Wildfire Defense Grants

Community wildfire defense grants provide communities with funding to plan for and reduce their risks from wildfire. This factsheet details the program, how it's funded, and the groups who applied for grants during the program's first year.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: Fact Sheet
Number: FS-1214
Year:

Prescribing Vitamin N(ature)

The physical and mental benefits from being outdoors are well-documented and increasingly recognized. Embracing the restorative potential of our public lands, three Forest Service units partnered with external groups to bring positive change to people in need. This publication details the who, how, and why of those efforts, establishing a model for other forests and grasslands to prescribe vitamin N(ature)!

Topic: Partnership and Collaboration
Type: General
Number: FS-1226
Year:

Future of America's Forests and Rangelands: 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment

The Resources Planning Act Assessment is a decadal report on the current and future status of America's forests and rangelands. Using the most current data and scientific analysis, it predicts the most likely scenarios for conserving and maintaining our natural resources, including forests, water, biodiversity, and more.

Topic: Science and Technology
Type: Technical Report
Number: GTR-WO-102
Year:

National Prescribed Fire Resource Mobilization Strategy

This strategy details how the Forest Service can increase the scale of using prescribed fire. By using established knowledge and practices for wildland fire suppression, the agency will create regional teams to coordinate landscape-scale prescribed fires. Prescribed fire is a critical tool in efforts to reduce wildfire risk and the harm it can cause to people, infrastructure, and natural resources.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1216
Year:

Forest Service Branding Standards

This document details branding standards for U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service communication products. It includes information on appropriate insignia (logo) use, branding for partners, and applying branding to publications, social media, videos, and more.

Topic: Partnership and Collaboration
Type: General
Number: FS-1186
Year:

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals From Forest Land, Woodlands, Urban Trees, and Harvested Wood Products in the United States, 1990–2021

This report details greenhouse gas emissions and removals as they relate to forested land in the United States.

Topic: Science and Technology
Type: General
Number: RB-WO-101
Year:

Forest Inventory and Analysis Fiscal Year 2021 Business Report

The Forest Inventory and Analysis Program provides vital information to the management and conservation of the nation’s forest resources. This 24th annual business report tells taxpayers, partners, and clients about program accomplishments and forecasts the outcomes for the coming year with budgeted financial resources.

Topic: Business and Landownership
Type: General
Number: FS-1212
Year:

Moon Tree Applicant Information

Moon Trees are trees that grew from seedlings which orbited the Moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Today, the Artemis missions will create a new generation of Moon Trees. This factsheet includes tips and expectations for people applying for a Moon Tree seedling.

Topic: Natural Resources and Conservation
Type: Fact Sheet
Number: FS-1213
Year:

Strengthening Tribal Consultation and Nation-to-Nation Relationships

The United States and Tribal Nations are creating a more realistic and progressive relationship that honors and respects Tribal sovereignty. This action plan details how the Forest Service will fulfill the Federal trust responsibility we have with Indigenous people, co-managing their ancestral homelands to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of forests and grasslands for present and future generations.

Topic: Partnership and Collaboration
Type: General
Number: FS-1211
Year:

Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Second Landscapes

The start of fiscal year 2023 saw the selection of 11 new landscapes targeted for treatments under the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. This sixth installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis" details those landscapes and discusses the funding sources that are being used to protect our communities, infrastructure, and natural resources.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1187f
Year:

Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: Initial Landscapes

In 2022, the Forest Service and our partners identified 10 initial landscapes to receive funding as part of the new Wildfire Crisis Strategy. This fourth installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis" offers profiles on each landscape and outlines the decision process that led to choosing these areas.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1187d
Year:

Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Chronicle

The Forest Service and other land management agencies have long worked together to manage a growing wildfire crisis. This document, the third installment of "Confronting the Wildfire Crisis," details how those efforts have evolved from the 1990s towards the National Cohesive Strategy in the 2010s and into the present strategy of the 2020s.

Topic: Fire and Safety
Type: General
Number: FS-1187c
Year:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency/publications?page=2