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…
#Collaboration, #CollaborativeForestLandscapeRestorationProgram, #Restoration, #Partnerships, #EcosystemServices, #Landscapes, #ForestRestoration, #SharedStewardship, #ClimateResilience, #RuralCommunities
A stand with a plan
James Donahey, forester and silviculturist for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, stands in a red pine plantation in decline. (Forest Service photo by Briana Shepherd)
To the average mountain biker or hiker on the Pine Brook Trail, there may not be anything about the area that stands out. Lots of trees, some dead and downed wood…
#Bats, #Landscapes, #Resilience, #HabitatRestoration
Where the city meets the forest
Los Angeles skyline with the Angeles National Forest in the background. (USDA Forest Service photo by Andrew Avitt)
Editor’s note: The Forest Service, now in its second year of implementing its Wildfire Crisis Strategy, is treating 11 additional landscapes across the country to help reduce wildfire risk to communities. Combined with the initial 10…
#California, #FuelReduction, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #Landscapes
Reducing wildfire risk and supporting rural economies
This aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Lincoln County Montana is a beautiful place. Heavily forested, with the Cabinet Mountains as a backdrop, the vistas are what draw people here.…
#Smoke, #RuralCommunities, #Landscapes, #PileBurning, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #FuelReduction
Tribal and Indigenous Fire Tradition
USFS Six Rivers National Forest fire crew conducting a prescribed burn for enhancing beargrass for tribal basket weaving, near Orleans, Calif. June 2017. (Forest Service photo)
Centuries ago, indigenous people inhabited the land from coast to coast. They knew what scientists confirm today: Frequent,…
#Fire, #Tribes, #Ecology, #Landscapes, #IndigenousKnowledge, #Indigenous, #IndigenousTraditions, #TribalEngagement, #Wildfire
Landscape Scale Restoration
Open Oak Woodland Restoration before and after treatments to reduce hazardous fuel and improve habitat in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. (Photo courtesy: Abby Colehour Long Tom Watershed Council)
The Landscape Scale Restoration Program is a competitive grant program that promotes collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest…