Forest Service

The Forest Service released a new report yesterday titled, “Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation on our National Forests," which outlines how the agency will pursue initiatives and policies that promote landscape-scale restoration. It was released in conjunction with a list of new projects selected for funding under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act.

     Here is an interesting new report on adapting to climate change on the Olympic National Forest and Olympic National Park (WA).  Chapter 4 specifically addresses road management in the face of a changing climate.  This appears to be the first example of a national forest specifically addressing their road system in the context of climate change in a formal report.  There is a nice summary of their key points on page 36 (Box 4.3).  

To view the report go to: http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr844.pdf