Protecting the air quality of the National Forest from adverse air pollution impacts is one example of how the Forest Service is "caring for the land, and serving people."
The Forest Service has been using inventory and monitoring data to determine what impact ozone may be having, how atmospheric deposition may be impacting water chemistry and nutrients needed for vegetation and aquatic organisms to grow and, in cooperation with the North Carolina Division of Air Quality, determining how ground-level ozone, and what fine particles, are causing visibility impairment. The available data from the ozone, visibility, and fine particle monitoring are available to anyone through the internet. The results from the monitoring are being used to determine if current air pollution exposures are causing an adverse impact to the Air Quality, and if people visiting the National Forest could have unhealthy exposures to air pollution.
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