U.S. Forest Service (USFS)
The Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that manages public lands in national forests and grasslands. The Forest Service provides leadership in the protection, management, and use of the Nation's forest, rangeland, and aquatic ecosystems. Their ecosystem approach to management integrates ecological, economic, and social factors to maintain and enhance the quality of the environment to meet current and future needs. Through implementation of land and resource management plans, the agency is said to sustain ecosystems by restoring and maintaining species diversity and ecological productivity.
Research activities at the USFS cover a wide range of topics on climate change. Forest Service Research and Development provides long term research, scientific information, and tools that can be used by managers and policymakers to address climate change impacts to forests and rangelands. Climate change-related activities are carried out within Research Stations across the country.
The Climate Change Resource Center has been developed as a reference for USFS resource managers and decision makers who need information and tools to address climate change in planning and project implementation on national forests.
The 'National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change' is the Forest Service's blueprint for responding to a changing climate and is part of the overall and ongoing effort by the Agency to restore forest and grassland landscapes. One of the measurement criteria of the Forest Service’s roadmap is a scorecard rating system to be used by all national forests and grasslands to gage the success of efforts to mitigate and adapt to a changing climate.
Phone: (800) 832-1355
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Related Organizations:
- USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station
- USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
- U.S. Forest Service Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC)
- USFS Southern Research Station
- USFS Northern Research Station
- USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station
- Western States Federal Agency Support Team (WestFAST)
- U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center
- Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT)
- Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS)
- Department of the Interior (DOI): Northern Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC)
- Climate Change Collaboration in the Pacific Northwest (C3)
Related Resources:
- U.S. GAO report: Climate Change - Various Adaptation Efforts are Underway at Key Natural Resource Management Agencies
- Wildlife & Wildlands Toolkit
- State of the Birds 2011- Report on Public Lands and Waters
- WEPPCAT: Water Erosion Prediction Project Climate Assessment Tool
- U.S. Forest Service (USFS) National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change
- Climate Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS)
- Great Lakes Restoration Initiative
- Pacific Northwest Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment
- First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)
- U.S. Forest Service (USFS): Climate Change Resource Center
- Managing Changing Landscapes in the Southwestern United States
- Climate Change in the Pacific Northwest
- Climate Change Bird Atlas
- Climate-Smart Conservation: Putting Adaptation Principles into Practice
- South Platte Watershed Natural Capital Resource Assessment
- The Importance of Climate Change for Future Wildfire Scenarios in the Western United States
- The Impact of Climate Change on California's Ecosystem Services
- Responding to Climate Change in National Forests: A Guidebook for Developing Adaptation Options
- USFS Seedlot Selection Tool
- Water Supply and Stress Index Model (WaSSI)
- Adapting to Climate Change at Olympic National Forests: Olympic National Park
- Central Hardwoods Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the Central Hardwoods Climate Change Response Framework Project
- Adaptation Workbook: A Climate Change Tool for Forest Management and Conservation
- USFS: Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the U.S.
- A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment for Focal Resources of the Sierra Nevada
- Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options (TACCIMO)
- NIACS Climate Change Response Framework
- Climate Change and Agriculture, Including Aquaculture and Fisheries, in New Jersey
- Central Appalachians Forest Ecosystem Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis: A Report from the Central Appalachians Climate Change Response Framework Project
- Vibrant Cities Lab
- Performance Scorecard for Implementing the Forest Service (USFS) Climate Change Strategy
- USDA Urban and Community Forestry Program
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