Roadless Area - Alaska Rule
The final rule repealing the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska was published on January 27, 2023.Repealing the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, which exempted the Tongass from roadless protections, returned the inventoried roadless areas of the forest to management under the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, reconstruction, and timber harvest in…
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Southern Region creates interactive map to increase awareness of prescribed burns
Prescribed fire refers to the controlled application of fire by a team of fire experts under specified weather conditions that help restore health and resiliency to fire-dependent ecosystems and landscapes. (USDA Forest Service photo by Sheila Holifield)
GEORGIA — Carefully planned fires in…
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Wildfire management in advance: Using PODS to identify boundaries
Glen Lewis explains the basics of PODs at the workshop held on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. USDA Forest Service photo by Richard Parker.
WASHINGTON, DC—The Forest Service is taking a proactive, collaborative and innovative approach to wildfire management in part by hosting a series of potential…
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Fathoming the snow depths
This snow-depth map, zoomed out, shows snow accumulations across the western and northern United States. Inches of snow range from blues to purples to pinks, from less to more snowpack.
CALIFORNIA—In California, the new year arrived on the wave of an atmospheric river, carrying enough water…
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Thousand Cankers Disease Survey Maps
Black walnuts killed by thousand cankers disease. (Photo courtesy of bugwood.org, by Curtis Utley, CSUE)
Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD ) results from the combined activity of a fungus, Geosmithia morbida, and the walnut twig beetle (WTB), Pityophthorus juglandis. TCD was originally described from scattered locations throughout western states. Now it appears that WTB and, by association, TCD,…
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Southern Pine Beetle Collector Map
SPB Collector map data window screen capture
The Southern Pine Beetle Collector application streamlines and standardizes field data collection. There are a variety of ways in which data can be collected and integrated into the Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) database for upward reporting. The Collector input is the most direct link! However, data that is collected via Digital Mobile Sketch…