Tag: Interior forest

Family Forests Are the Ties That Bind the Landscape

by Stephanie Worley Firley, Eastern Threat Center  • 
Family forests have an enormous capacity to provide ecosystem services such as clean air and water, timber and nontimber forest products, wildlife habitat, and scenic beauty and recreation — benefits that stretch far beyond property lines. According to USDA Forest Service research, sustaining these services depends on not only the condition of individual family forests…  More 

Interior Forest on the Wane in the United States

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
Interior forest, which can be simply defined as forest area surrounded by more forest, supports a wide range of plants and animals that do not thrive in forest edges or the small patches of woods left by human activities. Many of the nations most important rivers originate in interior forest, which also shelters municipal watersheds and…  More