Stephanie Laseter (SRS) and AJ Beck (Northern Research Station) have developed a StoryMap for the Southern Research Station Experimental Forests.  The map is an interactive tool highlighting locations of Experimental Forests, points of contact, current and historical research, partner forests, and scenarios from the Southern Forest Futures Project.

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James Vose, Research Ecologist and Project Co-Leader of the SRS Center for Integrated Forest Science, was recently honored by U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell for the comprehensive science synthesis  that he and team members developed that provides insight into the impacts of drought on the nation’s forests and grasslands and a scientific foundation for effective management responses.

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David N. Wear, Research Forest Economist and Project Co-Leader of the SRS Center for Integrated Forest Science, has been selected by the Society of American Foresters (SAF) as winner of the National Award in Forest Science. The award recognized distinguished individual research in any branch of the quantitative, managerial, and/or social sciences leading to the advancement of forestry.

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“The forestry community is facing large global environmental and socioeconomic challenges, and it will be difficult to ‘manage’ our way out of threats,” says James Vose, CIFS Project Leader, about a new article in the journal Forests. “New approaches that focus on anticipating and guiding ecological responses to change are urgently needed.”

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Read the abstract and download the article, "Forest management challenges for sustaining water resources in the Anthropocene"

This Comprehensive Science Synthesis, authored by CIFS Co-leader Jim Vose and others, establishes the scientific foundation for managing forests and rangelands for resilience and adaption to drought. Read the CompassLive article and access the report.

Read about coverage of the report in the following news articles: United Press International; Huffington Post: The California Drought's Alarming Toll On Forests and Huffington Post: How Increasing Drought Threatens Most U.S. Forests And Households; Christian Science Monitor; Greenwire and ClimateWire (E&E publishing); and the San Francisco Chronicle.