Tag: Wildland-urban interface

The Appalachian-Cumberland Highland: The Next 50 Years

by Sarah Farmer, SRS Science Communications  • 
Knowing more about how the future might unfold can improve decisions that are sure to have long-term consequences. The Southern Forest Futures Project, a multi-agency effort led by the U.S. Forest Service, aimed to forecast and interpret changes in southern forests under multiple scenarios over the next several decades. The project also included a suite…  More 

There’s Nothing Simple about the Urban-Rural Interface

by Zoe Hoyle, SRS Science Communications  • 
A new book edited by U.S. Forest Service researcher Wayne Zipperer, with co-editors David Laband and Graeme Lockaby, focuses on urban-rural interfaces—those places where city and suburban development touch on the countryside. Published by the American Society of Agronomy, the Crop Science Society of America, and the Soil Science Society of America, the articles in…  More