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Climate Change Resource Center Features Eastern Threat Center Research
Among its vast collection of educational resources and tools for land managers and decision makers, the Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) website features original content summarizing natural resource issues affected by a changing climate. Eastern Threat Center ecologists Frank Koch and Qin Guo partnered with other Forest Service researchers to co-author new peer-reviewed papers for the CCRC, “Forest Tree Diseases and Climate Change” and “Climate Change and Invasive Plants in Forests and Rangelands,” respectively.
Annual Reports Focus on Forest Trends
The Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program, Eastern Threat Center, and North Carolina State University Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources’ long-term collaboration produces the highly anticipated Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends and Analysis reports, describing the health of the nation’s forests. Produced annually since 2001, the reports (formerly known as National Technical Reports) provide forest managers, scientists, and decision makers with current and relevant information about issues impacting important forest resources.
Led by NCSU researcher Kevin Potter and coeditor Barbara Conkling, the annual reports include analysis of data from a variety of sources, providing a national and multi-state regional overview of forest health trends. Scientists from the Forest Service, other agencies, and universities contribute chapter-specific information, addressing a variety of forest health topics such as tree mortality, drought, geographic hotspots of insect and disease occurrences, wildland fire, forest fragmentation, and invasive plants. The annual reports also include a summary of targeted investigations funded by the Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring national program.
Please visit the Eastern Threat Center and Forest Health Monitoring websites to view the reports.
Center Scientist Supports Southern Research Station Tribal Relations
Serra Hoagland, Eastern Threat Center biological scientist and doctoral student at Northern Arizona University, serves as a point of contact for the Southern Research Station’s (SRS) Tribal Relations initiatives. She and SRS forester Wayne Zipperer are working to increase reciprocal communication, expand science delivery, and share technical and scientific information and tools to enhance natural resource management. Hoagland, who is Laguna Pueblo, recently represented the Station at the United Southern and Eastern Tribes conference. She serves on numerous local, regional, and national American Indian organizations, including the Intertribal Timber council, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the Native Peoples Wildlife Management Working Group.
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