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1323 Club Drive
Vallejo, CA 94592
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Our mission is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation's forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
Natural resource management refers to the management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, minerals, trees, plants, fish,and animals. The principle focus is on how management affects the quality of life for humans, wildlife, and ecosystems for present and future generations. Natural resource management corresponds with the concept of sustainable development, which is to say that efforts are made to provide recreation and resources from public lands for the present while conserving and preserving natural resources for the future.
Listed below are some of the resources that are managed on the National Forests and the methods of collecting information for managing those resources.
Some of the tools used to manage natural resources are vegetation and land classification and tree and vegetation inventories. The data from the classification and inventories is used to map and analyze the resources for fire control, resource utilization and conservation, wildlife and ecosystem preservation, and recreation use to name a few.
National forests in California comprise about 20 percent of the area of the state, but owing to their location in mountainous headwaters, they provide almost half of the State's surface water.
The Pacific Southwest Region’s (R5) Vegetation Ecology program consists of three components: Inventory, Mapping, and Classification. These interdependent components serve as the basis for analyzing vegetation resources and associated uses in this Region. Included in components are the Vegetation Inventory Data and Mapped Vegetation Tiles.
Assessment of tree loss due to wildfires and the resultant broad scale losses for all the benefits that forested lands offer, such as wildlife habitat, watersheds, clean air and wood fiber.
