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USGS Ecosystems Environments Research Forests

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.