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Compass December 2006
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Compass is a quarterly publication of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station (SRS). As part of the Nation's largest forestry research organization -- USDA Forest Service Research and Development -- SRS serves 13 Southern States and beyond. The Station's 130 scienists work in more than 20 units located across the region at Federal laboratories, universites, and experimental forests.



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Issue 7

Three Communities on the Edge

by Perdita Spriggs

Combining resources is essential to addressing emerging issues in the South. The SRS Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information (the WUI Center) located in Gainesville, FL, actively partners with a variety of organizations—including local, State, and Federal agencies, universities, and nongovernmental organizations—to ensure that the research it conducts is relevant, and that information reaches communities that can benefit from it.

Locales with wildland-urban interface issues particularly benefit from science-based collaborative efforts that offer solutions to urbanization driven challenges. Three such SRS partnerships—with the University of Georgia (UGA), Auburn University, and American Forests—exemplify the strength of cooperation in solving natural resource issues that have crept over city limits. (...continued...)





The SRS WUI Center collaborates with a variety of partners to address wildland-urban interface issues in communities across the South.
The SRS WUI Center collaborates with a variety of partners to address wildland-urban interface issues in communities across the South.
(Photo by Larry Kohrnak, University of Florida)