2009 Partnership Highlights
University joint venture heightens forest health awareness
An ongoing cooperative arrangement between the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and North Carolina State University (NCSU) enables Center scientists and NCSU researchers to collaboratively produce annual reports describing the health of the nation’s forests. This joint venture is funded annually by Forest Health Protection specifically for this purpose. The annual reports synthesize data from a variety of sources to provide an overview of forest health based on criteria and indicators of sustainable forestry outlined in the Santiago Declaration (e.g., biological diversity, productive capacity, health and vitality, soil conservation, and carbon cycling). Indicators such as species diversity, tree crown condition, physical and chemical soil properties, and carbon pools are used to assess the status of forest ecosystems at the landscape level.
Contact: Kurt Riitters, acting Forest Health Monitoring team leader, (919) 549-4015, kurt.h.riitters@usda.gov
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