Threats
Is Your Home at Risk from Wildfire?
Online Wildfire Risk Assessment Tool Wildfires play an important part in the South’s forest ecosystems, but they present a risk to homes built in or near natural areas; however all homes are not equally at risk. Wildfire risk to homes depends on nearby land use, trees, vegetation near the home, and building design and materials. InterfaceSouth, one of the … Continue reading
Guide for Managing Invasive Plants
Science You Can Use Cogongrass infests a southern pine stand. Photo by Chris Evans, courtesy of Bugwood.org Many landowners are continuously plagued by unidentifiable annoying weeds and grasses. Some of these are nonnative invasive plant species that have arrived without the natural predators and diseases that keep native plants in natural balance. Nonnative plants have … Continue reading
A ForWarning
USDA Forest Service and NASA team up to monitor forests from space About 750 million acres of forests stretch across the United States—lands that are vulnerable to disturbances caused by insects, diseases, wildfires, extreme weather, or other natural or human-caused events. Some disturbances are immediately evident in the landscape when they occur; others are more … Continue reading
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