Forest Watershed Science Resources and Tools

Too Warm For Trout?
Can you imagine a future without trout swimming in mountain streams? A hundred years from now, the recreational fishing that many people enjoy in the Southern Appalachians could be a relic of the past.(More)

Going Up Turkey Creek: Modeling Water Availability in the Coastal Plain
On a mild, sunny June morning, Devendra Amatya stands near a State highway bridge on the bank of Turkey Creek, a gentle blackwater stream in South Carolina's Coastal Plain. The creek winds through the Santee Experimental Forest, which is located within the Francis Marion National Forest at the headwaters of the east branch of the Cooper River...(More)

Southern Bats Like Hardwoods

Bats are one of the most numerous and diverse groups of mammals, existing on every continent except Antarctica. The world's current bat fauna represents over 50 million years of adaptation to a variety of environmental conditions and unique niches...(More)

Cleaning Up Our Act: Planting Trees to Clean Water
Much has been written about the birth of American forestry at the beginning of the 20th century as a response to a landscape laid waste by the timber and farming practices of European expansion. By the 1890s, the new Americans had logged, mined, and unsustainably farmed across the Southeast, leaving vast areas of soil denuded, compacted, and unable to filter rainfall.(More)

Constructing Wetlands to Improve Coastal Water Quality
South Carolina draws developers, residents, and visitors looking for a mild climate--development of previously wooded tracts of land is at an all time high along the coast. This rapid influx of people and development has brought waterquality problems to previously healthy coastal waterways--the result of both increased pollution and the loss of ecosystem services from the forests and wetlands that once protected coastal systems...(More)

What is Agroforestry?
Agroforestry intentionally combines agriculture and forestry to create integrated and sustainable land use systems. Agroforestry takes advantage of the interactive benefits from combining trees and shrubs with crops and/or livestock...(More)

The National Agroforestry Center
The National Agroforestry Center (NAC) had its origins in the 1990 Farm Bill, and was set up in 1992 in Lincoln, NE, as a Forest Service Research & Development and State & Private Forestry technology transfer effort...(More)

Tools of the Agroforestry Trade
Regional reconnaissance for conservation planning is available through a large collection of existing resource maps compiled by the National Agroforestry Center (NAC) in the online Conservation Planning Atlas...(More)

Ecosystem Services
Ecosystem Services Ecosystem services can be defined simply as the benefits provided by forested landscapes. In addition to supplying wood products, fuel, medicine, and recreation, forests:(More)

What's Nitrogen Got to Do With It?
There are many different forms of the element nitrogen. Three common forms are ammonia (NH₃), nitrate (NO₃), and nitrite (NO₂). Ammonia is a result of the natural breakdown of animal and vegetable matter by bacteria...(More)

Can Agroforestry Work in the South?
A number of factors-increasing input costs, low crop prices, and suboptimal yields on marginal lands-have combined to lower the profitability and endanger the survival of small farms throughout the United States...(More)