Resilient forests
Resilient Forests - American Forests
Reforestation is a key way that our Resilient Forests program restores forest health. With 148 million acres of former forest in the U.S. suitable for ...
Resilient Landscapes | US Forest Service
Healthy, thriving ecosystems are less vulnerable to extreme wildfires that can devastate watersheds, destroy wildlife habitat, and risk lives.
Managing Resilient Forests. A Regional Initiative
Managing for resilient park forests is imperative to ensure long-term ecosystem health, maintain biodiversity, and meet the NPS mission of ...
Just What Is a 'Resilient' Forest, Anyway? - UC Davis
The study indicates that forests with very low tree densities can be more resilient to compounded threats of fire, drought and other climate ...
LIFE RESILIENT FORESTS is a project co-funded by the European Union's LIFE Programme to promote a forest management approach at the watershed scale.
Resilient Forests Initiative - Forest Complexity - National Park Service
Enhancing tree regeneration and forest complexity protects the future forest. Let there be Light! Many of the forests in the Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic ...
Resilient Forests - Mass Audubon
Development. Massachusetts has been losing roughly 5,000 acres of forest each year to development. Much of that is conversion for housing and industrial uses; ...
Resilient Forestry | resilientforestry.com
Resilient Forestry is an industry leader in understanding, managing, and valuing forests as ecological communities.
Many of the region's low to mid-elevation forests are currently 5-6 times more dense than historic conditions. Denser forests with high fuel loads are more ...
Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change
Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations (that is, ...
Resilient Forestry - Beyond Toxics
What is Resilient Forestry? Resilient forestry refers to a set of practices and principles aimed at creating and managing forest ecosystems that are better ...
Increasing Forest Resiliency - MassWoods
plant diversity by dominating forests. When invasive plants dominate a forest, they can inhibit the regeneration of native trees and plants. This reduced ...
Resilient forests - Scottish Forestry
Main resilience-building strategies: Manage some of the older stands of Norway spruce, Douglas fir and Scots pine under shelterwood systems to enhance ...
Resilient Forests - Sierra Nevada Alliance
The Alliance works to support and restore healthy forest ecosystems and protect them from the threats of development, wildfire, and disease.
Resilient Forests - Forest Health - Washington County
In a healthy forest, most trees can recover from a disturbance, but a forest that is stressed by overcrowding, tree wounding, soil compaction, or drought is ...
Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society | Ambio
One key response strategy to face uncertainty caused by climate change, biodiversity crisis, and ever-changing societal demands is to foster ...
Forest Resiliency | UMass Amherst MassWoods
Change in forests is natural and healthy, yet it is likely that we are at a time when the number of stressors facing our forests is greater than it has ever ...
Creating Resilient Forests in Michigan | The Nature Conservancy
The Big U.P. Deal led to the creation of the Two Hearted River Forest Reserve, TNC's first reserve in Michigan, which acts as a “living ...
Resilient Coastal Forests Project | Green Infrastructure Center, Inc.
This project helped coastal communities map, evaluate, protect and plan for coastal forest resiliency in the face of a changing climate.
Managing Forests for Resilience | Autumn 2024 | Articles | Features
This article is the third in a four-part series that focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in forests.