Climate Change - Land Management & Project Planning
- The Forest Service has a Climate adaptation Plan that informs all of our land management and project planning work
- To Address climate change in land management planning, the Forest Service is responding to a Secretarial Memo on Climate Resilience and Carbon Stewardship. part of that response is this advance notice of proposed rulemaking.
- Our Office of Sustainability and Climate supports our consideration of the impacts of climate change on our projects with a variety of staff and tools.
- In accordance with Council on Environmental Quality guidance, we are addressing the effects of our projects on climate change by considering changes in carbon storage for vegetation management and prescribed fire projects, and calculating greenhouse gas emissions for infastructure and other projects.