Forests

USGS research focuses on healthy forest management in the United States, including understanding forest systems, sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem function, developing resource management options, recovery of sensitive and status species, supporting management of aquatic forest habitats, conducting landscape scale assessments, and addressing forest stressors such as climate change, fire, and pathogens.

Listed below are examples of research projects available online and general information from USGS about grasslands.

• Assess Importance of Fogdrip at Windward and Leeward Forest Sites on East Maui (PIERC)

• Assessing Wildland Fire Impacts on the Winter Habitat Use and Distribution of Caribou Within Alaska's Interior Boreal Forest Ecosystem (ASC) (also related to Fire)

• Biological Research on Fire in the West. Fact Sheet. Download the File. (460 KB, PDF) (California, Sierra Nevada, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Great Basin, Mojave desert, Sonoran desert) (FRESC) (also related to Arid Lands; Fire; Grasslands; Invasive Species; Urban Expansion)

• Ecosystem and Biological Diversity of Hawaiian Montane Wet Forests and the Impact of Feral Pigs (PIERC) (also related to Invasive Species; Montane)

• Fire Ecology Research at the Western Ecological Research Center (Sierra Nevada forests, California shrublands, Mojave and Sonoran deserts) (WERC) (also related to Arid Lands; Fire)

• Forest and Woodland Restoration in the Southwest (FORT) (also related to Fire)

• Importance and Future Condition of Western Riparian Ecosystems as Migratory Bird Habitat (FORT) (also related to Rivers, Streams, & Lakes)

• Koa Community Ecology: Managing Alien Mammals (Hakalau Forest national Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii, Ka'u Forest Reserve, Kahuku Unit of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Kona Forest Unit of the Big Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex) (PIERC) (also related to Invasive Species)

• Maui Dry Forest Restoration (PIERC) (also related to Arid Lands; Invasive Species)

• Optimization Strategies for Sediment Reduction Practices on Roads in Steep, Forested Terrain. Publication Brief. Download the File. (44 KB, PDF) (WERC)

• PIERC Research: The Ridge to Reef Project and Ecological Restoration (Hawaii, Mariana Islands, Pacific) (PIERC) (also related to Arid Lands, Coral Reefs)

• Restoration of Native Hawaiian Dryland Forest at Auwahi, Maui. Fact Sheet. (7,726 KB, PDF) (Maui, Hawaii) (PIERC) (also related to Arid Lands; Invasive Species; Urban Expansion)

• Sensitivity of Pacific Island Tropical Montane Cloud Forests to Climate Change (Hawaii, Pacific Islands) (PIERC) (also related to Global Change; Montane)

• Understanding Our Changing Forests. Fact Sheet. (13,398 KB, PDF) (Washington, Oregon, Idaho) (FRESC) (also related to Global Change; Fire)

• Western Mountain Initiative (FORT, NRMSC, WERC) (also related to Global Change, Montane)

• Wildfire and Invasive Plants (New Mexico) (FORT) (also related to Fire; Invasive Species)

	More Research Samples from: Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC) Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center (PIERC) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NRMSC) Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)