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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 Inventory and Analysis Fiscal Year 2024 Business Report

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The annual Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) business report communicates to taxpayers, partners, and clients the FIA program accomplishments as well as the accomplishments forecast for the coming year given budgeted financial resources. The fiscal year 2024 report is the program’s 27th report.

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Safer wood for safer buildings

Fire testing is expensive and complex, which is why industry leaders look to the Forest Service for expertise. The Fire Lab at the USDA Forest Service's Forest Products Laboratory conducts research that influences building codes and furthers fire science knowledge to ensure the safety of buildings that include wood components. (Forest Service video)Wood is in most buildings you enter. But how do…

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Making wood less tasty to pests

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From wood walls to fence posts, we enjoy the benefits of wood products. But there are insects and fungi who enjoy it for another purpose – as dinner.The Forest Service’s Forest Products Laboratory scientists test wood products for resistance to fungal decay and insect damage.One of their big projects is testing chemical treatments for military wood packaging boxes. These boxes must withstand two…

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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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Forest Resources of the United States, 2022: A Technical Document Supporting the Forest Service 2020 RPA Assessment

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This General Technical Report provides the most recent information about U.S. forest resources based on the Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis program and is a key supporting document for the Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment. It includes resource data tables that present estimates of forest area, volume, mortality, growth, removals, timber products output, and more within the context of changes since 1953.