Disaster Recovery
When natural or human-caused disasters occur on national forests and grasslands, the devastation can have long-term effects on the land and nearby communities. Repairing the damage, like repairing a house after a hurricane, can be costly and long-term.The Forest Service uses available funding, supplemental funding and emergency authorities to respond to immediate or long-term disaster recovery on…
#BurnedAreaEmergencyResponse, #Watershed, #EmergencyResponse, disasters, #Hurricane
Water is life
The Rio Fernando Collaborative has partnered with Taos County and the Forest Service to reduce wildfire risk and improve water availability in the Taos, New Mexico region. From left to right – Wayne Rutherford, Joe Fernandez, MaryAnn Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Ed Bell, Patricia Martinez Rutherford and Michael Lujan. (USDA/Forest Service photo by…
#Watershed, #WildfireCrisisStrategy, #Water
Alaska’s first Community Forest Program Grant will protect watershed, create new park
Community Forest Program Grants protect predominantly forested areas such as the hillside of the proposed Potter Marsh Watershed Park, which contains streams and wetlands that flow into Potter Marsh. Photo courtesy Carl Johnson.
ALASKA—On the southern edge of Anchorage lies Potter Marsh, a…
#Community, #Water, #Watershed, #Alaska
New tool identifies opportunities to protect, enhance America's waterways
Aerial view of a riparian buffer zone along a river. Photo courtesy Buffering America’s Waterways website.
WISCONSIN—The USDA Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service jointly developed a robust interactive map to prioritize waterway enhancement in the contiguous…
#Water, #Watershed, riparian
Planting seeds of prevention
A custom seed mix created to reseed a fuel break on the Pine Valley Ranger District of the Dixie National Forest. (USDA Forest Service photo by Lindsey Winkel)
In a large climate-controlled warehouse in central Utah, hundreds of thousands of pounds of seed in white feed bags are stacked to…
#InfrastructureInvestmentAndJobsAct, #Watershed, #Utah, #Seeds, #Water
Forest Legacy Program brings permanent protection to thousands of acres in eastern Maine
Scenic East Grand Lake. The first phase of the East Grand Lake Watershed Initiative, completed in 2016 using Forest Legacy Program funding, conserved 5,992 acres of forestland at Monument Brook and 1,493 acres of working forest easement lands in Orient. The newly completed second phase…