Celebrate National Forest Products Week with the SCIENCEx team and learn how agency scientists pioneer new and better uses — from skyscrapers to energy to plastics — for products from […]

Operationalizing Assisted Migration Putting plans into practice often comes results in unexpected challenges and circumstances. This set of presentations will showcase real examples of implementing assisted migration under a variety […]

Forest lands in the United States are owned primarily by private forest landowners who have a wide variety of forest management objectives and reasons for owning forests. Mature and old growth […]

Integrating Assisted Migration in National Forest Planning The Superior National Forest recently incorporated assisted migration into its forest plan. In this panel discussion, we will hear from a climate adaptation […]

Given the immense cultural and ecological value of forests, the US federal government, Tribal Nations, and the public sector are considering strategies for sustaining forests, including a recent Executive Order […]

Dr. D’Amato’s presentation will explore silvicultural options for managing for mature and old-growth forest conditions across a range of forest and ownership types in the US. The consistency of these […]

PANEL DISCUSSION Fire, whether naturally ignited or culturally conveyed, did not spread across eastern North America frequently or evenly enough for fire-dependent grasslands to be as ubiquitous as the forested […]

Speaker: Jamie Barbour Conserving Mature and Old-Growth Forests in a Changing Climate Speaker Series There is broad agreement that protecting and managing forests is critical for meeting global climate mitigation […]

PANEL DISCUSSION Wetlands are the forgotten sibling of the prescribed fire world. While upland ecosystems across the Eastern U.S. have received significant attention for their fire-dependency, wetlands—characterized by their more […]

PANEL DISCUSSION Wildland fire managers require an expanded toolbox for decision support in the context of an increasingly novel fuel and fire environment complicated by a changing climate, invasive species […]

PANEL DISCUSSION Prescribed fire is one of the most effective tools for fuels reduction, habitat improvement, and ecological restoration. Yet, there are challenges surrounding social acceptance in implementing prescribed fire […]