Moss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland, Oregon, a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station-led study has found. The work—the first to use moss to generate ...
Environment
Apr 7, 2016
0
160
The U.S. Forest Service recently published its first urban forest assessment—providing details on the composition and health of the Austin, Texas urban forest, and documenting the contributions trees make to the environment, ...
Environment
Mar 9, 2016
0
13
Forests in the Nation's most densely forested and most densely populated region will change radically in the next 50 years, primarily because of the way they are managed—or not managed—today, according to a new report ...
Environment
Mar 8, 2016
0
21
A new storymap developed by U.S. Forest Service researchers allows users to interactively chart the ebb and flow of forest products across the southern states—and visually tells the story of the decline of the forest products ...
Environment
Feb 24, 2016
0
5
The U.S. Forest Service today released a new report, Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis, that provides a national assessment of peer-reviewed scientific research ...
Environment
Feb 1, 2016
0
8
Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest—an area about ...
Environment
Jan 28, 2016
0
5
Rising temperatures can create stressful and possibly lethal stream habitat for native trout. To help understand the interactive effects of climate warming and livestock grazing on water temperature, researchers from the ...
Ecology
Jan 14, 2016
0
14
The U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station today released a new report that outlines a climate adaptation strategy for yellow-cedar in Alaska.
Environment
Jan 13, 2016
0
6
The strongest forest carbon sinks in eastern forests are within landscapes not completely dominated by forests. Using a new framework for forest carbon accounting, a team of USDA Forest Service scientists found that landscapes ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2015
0
330
Although the United States leads the world in both production and consumption of forest products, the U.S. share of the global forest products market has declined precipitously since the 1990s.
Environment
Dec 2, 2015
0
2
