Forest Products Modernization
Our forest products delivery systems and processes have served us well in the past, but they need to continue to evolve to keep up with the best available science, changes in authorities, technology, markets, and stewardship ideals.
Restore, Enhance, and Maintain
Restoration means creating and maintaining healthy, resilient forests capable of delivering all the benefits that people get from them: clean air and water, carbon sequestration, habitat for native fish and wildlife, forest products, opportunities for outdoor recreation, and more.
Celebrating Wildflowers: Terrific Trilliums
Trilliums hold a special place in the hearts of naturalists, botanists, horticulturalists, and outdoorsmen and outdoorswomen worldwide.
Forests
The Forest Service stewards an impressive portfolio of landscapes across 193 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands in the public trust. The agency’s top priority is to maintain and improve the health, diversity, and productivity of the nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of current and future generations.
- Forest Management
- Forest Products
- Vegetation Management
- Forest Health Protection
- Pronunciation Guide for National Forests and Grasslands
Minerals and Geology
The Forest Service manages its mineral and energy program to provide commodities for current and future generations commensurate with the need to sustain the long-term health and biological diversity of ecosystems.
Plants
Native plants are valued for their economic, ecological, genetic, and aesthetic benefits. Using native plant material in vegetation projects maintains and restores native plant gene pools, communities, and ecosystems, and can help reverse the trend of species loss in North America.
Rangelands
Rangelands in the United States are diverse lands. They are the wet grasslands of Florida to the desert shrub ecosystems of Wyoming. They include the high mountain meadows of Utah to the desert floor of California.
Recreation
Providing the greatest diversity of outdoor recreation opportunities in the world means working to balance the desires of recreationists with ensuring future generations have the same access.
Restoration
Restoration is helping nature recover from degradation, damage and destruction. The goal is to re-establish a balance of nature needed for air, water, plants and animals to thrive.
Water
Water is one of the most important water resources flowing from national forests and grasslands, providing drinking water to more than 180 million people.
Wildlife and Fish
Our work includes restoring aquatic organism passage, stream habitat, and floodplains; enhancing lake productivity; restoring habitat for a vast array of wildlife species from hummingbirds to bighorn sheep and spotted frogs to black bears and connecting people to the outdoors.