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Forest Health Monitoring: Evaluation Monitoring Project Summaries 2024

Evaluation monitoring—a component of the Forest Service’s Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program—supports projects that assess changes in forest health, often at a finer scale than standard monitoring activities. This report is a companion to the annual FHM report and provides summaries of four evaluation monitoring projects.

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Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends, and Analysis 2024

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This annual report of the Forest Service’s Forest Health Monitoring program describes research by Forest Service scientists and partners and presents forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective.

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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration

Partners from rural areas in Colorado and New Mexico gather in a field near Chama, New Mexico, during a field trip about the Rio Chama restoration project. The work is across the Santa Fe, Carson, Rio Grande, and San Juan national forests and connected lands. The partnership works on the…

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Community roots, lasting impact

A person sitting on a fallen tree in a forest behind purple wildflowers, with a clipboard recording data.

The Salmon-Challis National Forest is no stranger to wildfire. Its rugged terrain spans 4.3 million acres across Central Idaho with much of the land affected by fires over the past few decades.The need to accelerate reforestation has only grown. The small yet dedicated forest silviculture crew took on the main responsibility for that work. But that changed three years ago when the Salmon-Challis…

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Forest Health Monitoring: Evaluation Monitoring Project Summaries 2023

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The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service supports projects that determine the extent, severity, and causes of undesirable changes in forest health. Evaluation monitoring projects are more comprehensive than standard monitoring activities. This report is a companion to the annual FHM report and provides summaries of nine evaluation monitoring projects.

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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: 15-Year Accomplishment Report

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This accomplishment report highlights the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program's impact of investing in lands managed by the Forest Service. The CFLRP accomplishments over the last 15 years are driven by place-based, multiyear funding, and include improvements across 6.7 million acres from fuels reduction, tree planting, trail maintenance, stream restoration, invasive plant treatments, and fish passage. This publication is adapted from a report submitted to Congress in June 2024.