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Forest health monitoring, analysis, and assessment

WEBPARTNERS: North Carolina State University (NCSU) Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources; USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, National Forest Health Monitoring and Forest Inventory and Analysis National Program …

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Data & Tools — Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment …

WEBData & Tools. High-resolution Forest Mapping (HiForm) HiForm is an online application for forest managers and planners to create detailed maps of forest change caused by severe weather, wildland fire, timber harvest, and insects and disease. This tool utilizes Google …

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Two decades of annual national forest health check-ups — Eastern …

WEBFor 21 consecutive years, researchers from the USDA Forest Service and its partners at North Carolina State University have cooperated annually to track the status and trends of forest health across the United States.

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Forest Health Monitoring Annual National Reports

WEBThe Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program is a long-term, national research and monitoring effort focusing on forest ecosystems. This is an interagency program designed to assist resource managers and policy makers in managing forest resources in the United …

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Forest Health Monitoring Team Publications — Eastern Forest

WEB2009. Riitters, K.H., J.D. Wickham, and T.G. Wade. 2009.An indicator of forest dynamics using a shifting landscape mosaic. Ecological Indicators 9: 107-117. Vogt, P

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Status and future of the forest health indicators …

WEBEnviron Monit Assess (2011) 177:419–436 DOI 10.1007/s10661-010-1644-8 Status and future of the forest health indicators programoftheUSA Christopher William Woodall ·Michael C. Amacher ·William A. Bechtold · John W. Coulston ·Sarah Jovan ·Charles H. …

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Biography of Karun Pandit — Eastern Forest Environmental Threat

WEBKarun Pandit is a quantitative forest ecologist with research interests in forest health monitoring, forest disturbance modeling, change detection methods, and ecological forecasting. He was appointed in 2023 as an Assistant Research Professor in the …

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The state of the nation's forests assessed in new report

WEBThe 18th annual national Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) report summarizes status and trends of forest conditions across the United States. Insects, diseases, droughts and wildfire threaten U.S. forests.

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ForWarn — Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

WEBThe Eastern and Western Threat Centers are collaborating with federal and university partners to develop strategic research components for a National Early Warning System.

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Forecasts of Climate-Associated Shifts in Tree Species (ForeCASTS

WEBForest ecosystems are ever adjusting to changing conditions resulting from seasonal fluctuations in temperature and precipitation, disturbances like storms and wildfire, and interactions among species, but changing climatic conditions could pose a severe threat …

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Remote sensing for ash identification and pre-visual decline

WEBPARTNERS: USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station; University of New Hampshire Complex Systems Research Center; Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET); USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service SUMMARY: The …

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Monitoring forest health during a pandemic: satellite-based …

WEBRemote sensing technologies that monitor forest disturbances have taken a giant leap forward just when they’re needed the most – during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Home — Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

WEBWorking together to improve post-fire watershed health. View wildfire updates on InciWeb, the interagency all-risk incident information management system. Synergistic research projects characterize fuels, measure radiant heat and energy, evaluate smoke …

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Southern Pine Beetle Hazard Maps — Eastern Forest …

WEBVisit the FHTET website to learn more about the SPB hazard maps and other products. For additional information, please contact John Nowak, SPB Program Coordinator, at [email protected] or (828) 257-4326. Southern pine beetle damage at Upper Island …

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Examining the Role of Humans in the Spread of Invasive Species

WEBScientists and collaborators with the Eastern Threat Center have previously estimated annual rates of establishment of non-native forest insect species for more than 3,000 U.S. urban areas based on historical data on U.S. merchandise imports and insect …

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Urbanization dries the atmosphere: the urban dry island effect

WEBAn international collaborative study suggests that urbanization not only causes more storm runoff and urban ‘heat islands’, but also dries out the air in cities, resulting in urban ‘dry islands’.

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Bark Beetle Epidemics, Life Satisfaction, and Economic Well …

WEBForests 2019, 10, 696 2 of 15 climatic drivers of bark beetle damage, the replacement of natural mixed and deciduous forests with extensive even-age conifer monocultures has contributed to the increase in bark beetle outbreaks [9].

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