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Fire Toolbox: Reducing Wildfire Severity With Prescribed Fire and Thinning

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This Natural Inquirer monograph—the first in the Fire series—discusses research on prescribed fire and thinning and how those treatments impact wildfire severity and behavior. As with all Natural Inquirer monographs, the article is written for middle school students and covers subject matter from published, peer-reviewed Forest Service science.
#Fire, #PrescribedFire, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #Thinning

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals from Forest Land, Woodlands, and Harvested Wood Products in the United States, 1990–2024 

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This resource bulletin provides an overview of the status and trends in greenhouse gas emissions and removals. Estimates are consistent with methods used in the most recent compilation reported in the U.S. EPA inventory and rely on the latest data available from the Nationwide Forest Inventory collected and maintained by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program. This information is compiled to support national reporting requirements (e.g., Resources Planning Act Assessment, 2030 National Report on Sustainable Forests) and FIA stakeholder needs.
#GreenhouseGasEmissions, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #ForestInventoryAndAnalysis

Forest Health Monitoring: Evaluation Monitoring Project Summaries 2024

Forest Health Monitoring National Status, Trends, and Analysis.

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.
#ForestHealth, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #Monitoring

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.
#ForestInventoryAndAnalysis, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #Partnerships

Safer wood for safer buildings

A person working with a test burn in the Forest Service Fire Lab.
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…
#ForestProducts, #ForestProductsLaboratory, #FireLab, #FireScience, #Science, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #Research

Making wood less tasty to pests

A person wearing sunglasses, holding a cut piece of wood, pointing to small white mushrooms growing on one end.
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…
#ForestProducts, #ForestProductsLaboratory, #Science, #ResearchAndDevelopment, #WoodInnovations, #Wood