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Neighborhoods are one of the key determinants of health disparities among young people in the United States. While neighborhood deprivation can exacerbate health disparities, amenities such as quality parks and greenspace can support adolescent health. Existing conceptual frameworks of greeninghealth largely focus on greenspace exposures, rather than greening interventions. In this paper, we develop and propose a Greening Theory of Change that explains how greening initiatives might affect adolescent health in deprived neighborhoods. The theory situates greening activities and possible mechani...
AuthorsMichelle Kondo, Dexter Locke, Meghan Hazer, Tamar Mendelson, Rebecca L. Fix, Ashley Joshi, Megan Latshaw, Dustin Fry, Kristin MmariKeywordsSourceAmerican Journal of Community PsychologyYear2024 -
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AuthorsWendell Haag, Angela K. Burrow, Traci P. DuBose, Steven J. PriceSourceFreshwater ScienceYear2024 -
A forest investment’s returns are generated from three sources: the land’s gain in value, the timber’s growth in size and product class improvement, and the timber price change. Land appreciation is rapidly leading to an inverse relationship with tenure. This phenomenon has turned what was once an academic exercise of land appraisal into a practical one that incorporates the asset’s terminal value. We found that failing to account for the terminal value can lead to sizable differences in forest value, although those differences diminish with increasing planning time horizons. The findings can ...
AuthorsBruno Kanieski da Silva, Fatemeh Rezaei, Shaun Tanger, Jesse Henderson, Eric McConnell, Changyou SunKeywordsSourceForest Policy and EconomicsYear2024 -
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AuthorsMaricar Aguilos, Ge Sun, Ning Liu, Yulong Zhang, Gregory Starr, Andrew Christopher Oishi, Thomas O'Halloran, Jeremy Forsythe, Jingfeng Wang, Modi Zhu, Devendra Amatya, Benju Baniya, Steve McNulty, Asko Noormets, John KingSourceAgricultural and Forest MeteorologyYear2024 -
Chestnut blight (caused by Cryphonectria parasitica), together with Phytophthora root rot (caused by Phytophthora cinnamomi), has nearly extirpated American chestnut (Castanea dentata) from its native range. In contrast to the susceptibility of American chestnut, many Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima) genotypes are resistant to blight. In this research, we performed a series of genome-wide association studies for blight resistance originating from three unrelated Chinese chestnut trees (Mahogany, Nanking and M16) and a Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) study on a Mahogany-derived inter-species F2 ...
AuthorsShenghua Fan, Laura L. Georgi, Frederick V. Hebard, Tetyana Zhebentyayeva, Jiali Yu, Paul H. Sisco, Sara F. Fitzsimmons, Margaret E. Staton, Albert G. Abbott, C. Dana NelsonKeywordsSourceFrontiers in Plant ScienceYear2024 -
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AuthorsKailong Zhang, Thomas Elder, Zhongyang Cheng, Ke Zhan, Yucheng Peng, Mi LiKeywordsSourceJournal of Environmental Chemical EngineeringYear2024 -
Background: For at least four decades, practitioners have recognized advantages of aerial versus ground ignition for maximizing the effectiveness of prescribed fires. For example, larger areas can be ignited in less time, or ignition energy may be variously targeted over an area in accordance with the uneven distribution of fuels. The maturation of wireless communication, geopositioning systems, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) has enhanced those advantages, and UAS approaches also provide further advantages relative to helicopter ignitions, such as reduced risk to human safety, lower operati...
AuthorsJohn Craycroft, Callie SchweitzerKeywordsSourceFire EcologyYear2024 -
Recognizing the involvement of various stakeholders in managing pests, diseases, and forest disturbances is critical for managing forest health. Although there has been substantial focus on the biological and ecological aspects of forest health in the peer-reviewed literature, there is a significant gap in understanding the human dimensions of forest health, especially from the perspective of foresters and loggers. These two groups—foresters, who write silvicultural prescriptions, and loggers, who implement them—are vital but understudied participants.
AuthorsNorthern Research Station. USDA Forest ServiceSourceRooted in Research Issue 29, April 2024. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2 p.Year2024 -
People love to live near forests, lakes, open space, and scenic beauty. These natural settings draw people to build homes in areas classified as the wildland-urban interface (WUI): spaces where human development meets the natural world. Although houses in the WUI are built on private land, they are often close to national forests, within inholdings (patches of private land within national forests), or close to other public land. Tracking and understanding WUI growth therefore has implications for forest health and management across public and private lands.
AuthorsNorthern Research Station. USDA Forest ServiceSourceRooted in Research Issue 28, April 2024. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 2 p.Year2024 -
Monitoring fuel loads and treatment effects are critical in planning and evaluating prescribed fire and wildfire operations, but gathering data is difficult at management scales. Monitoring data allow managers to quantify fuel hazards, run fire behavior simulations that inform how prescribed fires and wildfires may progress under different weather and forests, and evaluate ecological impacts of different management decisions. New monitoring approaches with terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) developed by Northern Research Station scientists and partners are revolutionizing vegetation monitoring a...
AuthorsNorthern Research Station. USDA Forest ServiceSourceRooted in Research Issue 27, April 2024. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 7 p.Year2024