Planting the Shade You’ll Never Feel
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service’s 10-year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis and improve forest resilience isn’t just about mitigating wildfire, it’s also about post fire restoration. Together we work with our partners to reforest areas impacted by wildfire.“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” Greek Proverb…
#Reforestation, #Wildfire, #ForestHealthProtection, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #SharedStewardship
Celebrating Partnerships in the Central Sierra Recovery and Restoration Project
Editor’s note: The USDA Forest Service has committed its efforts to mitigating wildfire risk across 20 million acres of National Forests and up to an additional 30 million acres of other Federal, State, Tribal, and private lands as a part of the agency’s 10- year strategy to confront the wildfire crisis. This article illustrates how working across boundaries will be essential for that…
#Restoration, #FuelReduction, #SharedStewardship, #Mitigation
Racing the clock to stem the spread of the mountain pine beetle
In the summer of 2019, Forest Service entomologist Amy Lockner made her way along the Taylor Canyon Road toward Gunnison, Colorado, a small mountain town situated in a valley often referred to as the “Gateway to the Rockies.”As she drove down the winding canyon road flanked by pine trees, her gaze caught a subtle inconsistency in the forest canopy…
#WildfireCrisis, #SharedStewardship, #Partnerships, #MountainPineBeetle, #ForestHealth, #WildfireRiskReduction
Shared Stewardship
Urgent land management challenges like extreme wildfires, severe drought and invasive species do not recognize borders or boundary lines. Through Shared Stewardship, the Forest Service is coming together with tribal governments, states, and other partners to address these challenges and explore opportunities to improve forest health and resiliency across…
#SharedStewardship, #ForestStewardship, #ForestManagement
Working together for clean water, healthy streams
Volunteers are key to our efforts to plant trees and improve watersheds. They do the hard work of planting young trees in the ground and affixing plastic tubing that protect saplings from deer that would otherwise eat the trees. (Photo courtesy Chesapeake Bay Program)
The earthy smell of…
#SharedStewardship, #Partnerships, #Watershed, riparian, #Wildlife, #Trout, #Farming, #Fish, #Freshwater, #Science
Good Neighbor Authority
Our forests give us countless benefits: clean drinking water, millions of jobs, recreation opportunities, and more. Keeping these benefits requires forest management--and no one group can do it alone.Good Neighbor Authority allows the USDA Forest Service to enter into agreements with state forestry agencies to do the critical management work to keep our forests healthy and productive.Since Good…