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Forest Focus: Audio Podcast

USDA Forest Service, Forest Focus, Pacific Southwest Region

Forest Focus is an audio program about the National Forests in California. Episodes focus on issues such as ecological restoration, fire, recreation, law enforcement, tribal relations and much more.

Listen below, or wherever you get your podcasts

USDA Forest Service, Forest Focus, Pacific Southwest Region

Find Forest Focus on Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

The show features specialists that work for the U.S. Forest Service and guests who provide other points of view on Forest Service issues. For comments or suggestions please e-mail us at: SM.FS.r5ffpodcast@usda.gov

In this episode, we learn about tree disease and how it affects forest health from Jamie Hinrichs. Jamie was featured in Episode 29 - Trails and…
In this episode, we return once again to our series on Nature's Benefits. Today, we will focus on a benefit you can't see. Well, you can see the…
Springtime is defined as an early or flourishing stage of development, and after a wildfire damages the landscape, we sometimes see teams of people…
In this episode, we'll meet Forest Service conservation geneticist Dr. Jessica Wright within a post-fire landscape on the Plumas National Forest. In…
Have you ever wondered why some trees -- in certain locations, a lot of trees -- are brown and dying? The connection between bark beetles, drought…
In this episode we learn the valuable connection between beavers and meadows. In a meadow, the squish of mud and splash of a slightly flooded…