Adaptive Management, Monitoring, and Analysis
Adaptive ManagementAdaptive management is a structured, cyclical process for resource management decision-making. Feedback from monitoring is used to actively test assumptions when there is uncertainty and changing conditions. Monitoring data tracks relevant conditions over time, and measures management effectiveness…
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Assessment & Applied Sciences
Mapping & Reporting
FHP Highlights of Tree Mortality and Other Damage from Insects and Diseases
Forest Health Protection (FHP) Mapping & Reporting conducts surveys to detect and appraise insect infestations, disease conditions and man-made stresses affecting trees. FHP Mapping & Reporting establishes a monitoring system throughout the forests of the United States to determine…
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Forest Health Protection
We are part of the State and Private Forestry Deputy Area of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service. We have over 250 specialists in the areas of forest entomology, forest pathology, invasive plants, pesticide use, survey and monitoring, suppression and control, assessment and applied sciences, and other forest health-related services.Protecting the ForestWe provide technical…