Category: National Forests

Planning for Future Forests with Help from the TACCIMO Tool

by Lisa Jennings, North Carolina State University, and Stephanie Worley Firley, EFETAC  • 
From the North Carolina mountains to South Carolina’s coastal plain to the tropics of Puerto Rico, climate change is on the minds of forest planners. National forest planning teams in these areas are among the first few to revise their land and resource management plans under the U.S. Forest Service’s new Planning Rule released in…  More 

TACCIMO: Making Science Accessible for Forest Planners

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
In early 2009, a group of researchers led by Steve McNulty, team leader with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, partnered directly with forest planners from across the Southern Region of the National Forest System  to start looking at what needed to be done to address the looming problems posed by climate change. A…  More