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National Council for Science and the Environment National Conference and Global Forum
January 24-26, 2017 Washington DC -
USDA's 93rd Annual Agricultural Outlook Forum
February 23-24, 2017 Arlington, Virginia -
Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Portland, Oregon
August 6-11, 2017 -
Society of American Foresters National Conference 2017
November 13-19, 2017 Albuquerque, New Mexico
- A New Weapon In the Bark Beetle Fight: Pheromones Right now in California's Sierra Nevada, an estimated 66 million trees have died, due to a deadly combination of drought and bark beetles, which take advantage of dry, thirsty trees. But could we prevent beetles from ever attacking trees in the first place? Researchers have been asking this question for decades, and a new tool fends off bark beetles using the very thing that makes them so deadly.
- Iowa is losing millions of trees - and it's hurting water quality, experts say Iowa's thirst for new farmland helped drive the loss of 97,000 acres of woodlands in just five years, a new federal report shows.
- How William The Worm Got Himself Into A Pickle This week, a U.K. citizen named Wes Metcalfe discovered an 'unresponsive' worm stuck in the plastic packaging of a cucumber, which he had purchased at Tesco, a British supermarket chain.
- Climate Adaptation Leadership Award for Natural Resources The Climate Adaptation Leadership Award honors excellence by outstanding organizations and individuals to reduce climate-related threats and advance the resilience of fish, wildlife, and plants in a changing climate by helping to address the goals of the National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy. Forest Service researcher, Dan Isaak, was one of the recipients for incorporating climate vulnerability into over 185 forest management projects across the Midwest, Central Appalachians, and the Northeast.
- Finding Lessons on Culture and Conservation at the End of the Road in Kauai ...All of this is part of the larger trend of conservation biology that the U.S. Forest Service is exploring. “Conservation biology is continually evolving—from protecting nature for nature’s sake to today supporting socio-ecological systems,� says Christian Giardina, research ecologist for the U.S. Forest Service’s Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, who is funding our research.
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- Divergent population genetic structure of the endangered Helianthemum (Cistaceae) and its implication to conservation in northwestern China
- Early forest thinning changes aboveground carbon distribution among pools but not total amount
- First report of the rootrot pathogen Armillaria gallica on koa (Acacia koa) and Ohia lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) on the island of Kauai Hawaii
- Forest of Minnesota 2015
- Forest of North Dakota 2016
- Impact of air pollution induced climate change on water availability and ecosystem productivity in the conterminous United States
- Influence of reproduction cutting methods on structure growth and regeneration of longleaf pine forests in flatwoods and uplands
- Integrating ecosystem services into national Forest Service policy and operations
- Mulching fuels treatments promote understory plant communities in three Colorado USA coniferous forest types
- Robust surveillance and control of invasive species using a scenario optimization approach
- Spatially explicit measurements of forest structure and fire behavior following restoration treatments in dry forests
- Spectral evidence of earlystage spruce beetle infestation in Engelmann spruce
- The use of weather surveillance radar and highresolution three dimensional weather data to monitor a spruce budworm mass exodus flight
- Using environmental features to model highway crossing behavior of Canada lynx in the Southern Rocky Mountains
- A demographic study of the exponential distribution applied to unevenaged forests
- Ecologists Look to Traditional Knowledge to Bolster Sustainability Science
- Forest Service Databases Reimagined as Interactive Web-based Maps and More
- Forest Service Research Improves Road Management and Influences National Policy
- Fire and Forests
- Diners Love This Stinky Food
- U.S. Forest Service and Chinese Academy of Sciences Enter into a New Research Partnership
- Genetic Conservation Programs Can Help Protect Tree Species from Pathogens, Insects, and Future Climate Change
- Scientists Draft a Natural Nemesis to Combat Invasive Tree-Killing Beetles
- Moss Study Helps Identify Pollution Hotspots
- SEEDS for the Future
