Southern
Research Station

Education

Ph.D. in Forest Ecology, 2004

North Carolina State University

M.S. in Forest Biometrics, 1999

North Carolina State University

B.S. in Forest Management, 1996

North Carolina State University

Publications

• Zhao, Dehai ; Lynch, Thomas B.; Westfall, James A.; Coulston, John W. 2022. Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John. 2022. Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2020, 2018–2020, and 2016–2020.
• Westfall, James A.; Coulston, John W. 2022. Estimating change in annual timber products output using a stratified sampling with certainty design.
• Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Nowak, David J.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Smith, James , E..; Nichols, Michael C.; Ogle, Stephen M.; Coulston, John W.; Wirth, Tom C. 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2020.
• Cao, Qianqian ; Dettmann, Garret T.; Radtke, Philip J.; Coulston, John W.; Derwin, Jill ; Thomas, Valerie A.; Burkhart, Harold E.; Wynne, Randolph H. 2022. Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation.
• Ehlers, Dekker ; Wang, Chao ; Coulston, John ; Zhang, Yulong ; Pavelsky, Tamlin ; Frankenberg, Elizabeth ; Woodcock, Curtis ; Song, Conghe . 2022. Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data.
• Dettmann, Garret T.; Radtke, Philip J.; Coulston, John W.; Green, P. Corey; Wilson, Barry T.; Moisen, Gretchen G. 2022. Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory.
• Westfall, J.A. ; Coulston, J.W. ; Moisen, G.G. ; Andersen, H.-E . 2022. Sampling and estimation documentation for the Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: 2022.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W. 2021. Chapter 4 - Spatial patterns of drought and moisture surplus in the conterminous United States: 2019, and between 2017 to 2019, and 2015 to 2019.
• Coulston, John ; Green, P Corey; Radtke, Philip ; Prisley, Stephen ; Brooks, Evan ; Thomas, Valerie ; Wynne, Randolph ; Burkhart, Harold E. 2021. Enhancing the precision of broad-scale forestland removals estimates with small area estimation techniques.
• Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Nowak, David J.; Smith, James ; Nichols, Michael C.; Ogle, Stephen M.; Coulston, J.W. ; Wirth, T.C. . 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990–2019.
• Zhang, Yulong ; Song, Conghe ; Hwang, Taehee ; Novick, Kimberly ; Coulston, John W.; Vose, James ; Dannenberg, Matthew P.; Hakkenberg, Christopher R.; Mao, Jiafu ; Woodcock, Curtis E. 2021. Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016.
• Hou, Zhengyang ; Domke, Grant M.; Russell, Matthew B.; Coulston, John W.; Nelson, Mark D.; Xu, Qing ; McRoberts, Ronald E. 2021. Updating annual state- and county-level forest inventory estimates with data assimilation and FIA data.
• Gorelick, D. E.; Lin, L. ; Zeff, H. B.; Kim, Y. ; Vose, J. M.; Coulston, J. W.; Wear, D. N.; Band, L. E.; Reed, P. M.; Characklis, G. W. 2020. Accounting for adaptive water supply management when quantifying climate and land cover change vulnerability.
• Green, P Corey; Burkhart, Harold ; Coulston, John ; Radtke, Philip ; Thomas, Valerie A. 2020. Auxiliary information resolution effects on small area estimation in plantation forest inventory.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W. 2020. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2018, 2016– 2018, and 2014–2018.
• Nelson, Mark D.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.; Domke, Grant M.; Greenfield, Eric J.; Langner, Linda L.; Nowak, David J.; O'Dea, Claire B.; Oswalt, Sonja N.; Reeves, Matthew C.; Wear, David N. 2020. Defining the United States land base: a technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service 2020 RPA assessment.
• Haight, Robert G.; Bluffstone, Randall ; Kline, Jeffrey D.; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N.; Zook, Kate . 2020. Estimating the Present Value of Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Forests, 2015–2050, for Evaluating Federal Climate Change Mitigation Policies.
• Derwin, Jill M.; Thomas, Valerie A.; Wynne, Randolph H.; Coulston, John W.; Liknes, Greg C.; Bender, Stacie ; Blinn, Christine E.; Brooks, Evan B.; Ruefenacht, Bonnie ; Benton, Robert ; Finco, Mark V; Megown, Kevin . 2020. Estimating tree canopy cover using harmonic regression coefficients derived from multitemporal Landsat data.
• Coulston, John W.; Edgar, Christopher B.; Westfall, Jim; Taylor, Marcus E. 2020. Estimation of forest disturbance from retrospective observations in a broad-scale inventory.
• Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Nowak, David J.; Smith, James ; Ogle, Stephen M.; Coulston, J.W. ; Wirth, T.C. . 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018.
• Zhao, Dehai ; Bullock, Bronson P.; Montes, Cristian R.; Wang, Mingliang ; Westfall, James ; Coulston, John W. 2020. Long-term dynamics of loblolly pine crown structure and aboveground net primary production as affected by site quality, planting density and cultural intensity.
• Winn, Matthew F.; Royer, Larry A.; Bentley, James W.; Piva, Ronald J.; Morgan, Todd A.; Berg, Erik C.; Coulston, John W. 2020. Timber products monitoring: unit of measure conversion factors for roundwood receiving facilities.
• Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Wear, David N. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns.
• Green, P Corey; Burkhart, Harold ; Coulston, John ; Radtke, Philip J. 2019. A novel application of small area estimation in loblolly pine forest inventory.
• Zhao, Dehai ; Westfall, James ; Coulston, John W.; Lynch, Thomas B.; Bullock, Bronson P.; Montes, Cristian R. 2019. Additive biomass equations for slash pine trees: comparing three modeling approaches.
• Saia, Sheila M.; Suttles, Kelly M.; Cutts, Bethany B.; Emanuel, Ryan E.; Martin, Katherine L.; Wear, David N.; Coulston, John W.; Vose, James M. 2019. Applying climate change risk management tools to integrate streamflow projections and social vulnerability.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulton. John W., . 2019. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2017, 2015-2017, and 2013-2017.
• Gopalakrishnan, Ranjith ; Kauffman, Jobriath ; Fagan, Matthew ; Coulston, John ; Thomas, Valerie ; Wynne, Randolph ; Fox, Thomas ; Quirino, Valquiria . 2019. Creating landscape-scale site index maps for the southeastern US is possible with airborne LiDAR and Landsat imagery.
• Frank, Jereme ; Weiskittel, Aaron ; Walker, David ; Westfall, James A.; Radtke, Philip J.; Affleck, David L.R.; Coulston, John ; MacFarlane, David W. 2019. Gaps in available data for modeling tree biomass in the United States.
• Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Nowak, David J.; Smith, James ; Ogle, Stephen M.; Coulston, John W. 2019. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2017.
• Wear, David N.; Coulston, John W. 2019. Specifying forest sector models for forest carbon projections.
• Coulston, John W.; Westfall, James A.; Wear, David N.; Edgar, Christopher B.; Prisley, Steven P.; Treiman, Thomas B.; Abt, Robert C.; Smith, W. Brad. 2018. Annual monitoring of US timber production: rationale and design.
• Suttles, Kelly M.; Singh, Nitin K.; Vose, James M.; Martin, Katherine L.; Emanuel, Ryan E.; Coulston, John W.; Saia, Sheila M.; Crump, Michael T. 2018. Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast U.S.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W. 2018. Chapter 4 - Moisture deficit and surplus in the conterminous United States for three time windows: 2016, 2014-2016, and 2012-2016.
• Domke, G. ; Williams, C. A.; Birdsey, R. ; Coulston, J. ; Finzi, A. ; Gough, C. ; Haight, B. ; Hicke, J. ; Janowiak, M. ; de Jong, B. ; Kurz, W. A.; Lucash, M. ; Ogle, S. ; Olguín-Álvarez, M. ; Pan, Y. ; Skutsch, M. ; Smyth, C. ; Swanston, C. ; Templer, P. ; Wear, D. ; Woodall, C. W. 2018. Chapter 9: Forests.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Faber-Langendoen, Don; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches.
• Zhao, Dehai ; Lynch, Thomas ; Westfall, James ; Coulston, John ; Kane, Michael ; Adams, David E. 2018. Compatibility, development, and estimation of taper and volume equation systems.
• Kim, Taek Joo; Wear, David N.; Coulston, John ; Li, Ruhong . 2018. Forest land use responses to wood product markets.
• Costanza, Jennifer K.; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios.
• Bluffstone, R.; Coulston, J.; Haight, R.G.; Kline, J.; Polasky, S.; Wear, D.N.; Zook, K. 2017. Estimated values of carbon sequestration resulting from forest management scenarios.
• Radtke, Philip; Walker, David; Frank, Jereme; Weiskittel, Aaron; DeYoung, Clara; MacFarlane, David; Domke, Grant; Woodall, Christopher; Coulston, John; Westfall, James. 2017. Improved accuracy of aboveground biomass and carbon estimates for live trees in forests of the eastern United States.
• Martin, Katherine L.; Hwang, Taehee; Vose, James M.; Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N.; Miles, Brian; Band, Lawrence E. 2017. Watershed impacts of climate and land use changes depend on magnitude and land use context.
• Coulston, John W.; Blinn, Christine E.; Thomas, Valerie A.; Wynne, Randolph H. 2016. Approximating prediction uncertainty for random forest regression models.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John. 2016. Chapter 4: 1-Year (2014 , 3-Year (2012–2014 ) , and 5-Year (2010–2014) Maps of Drought and Moisture Surplus for the Conterminous United States.
• Brooks, Evan B.; Coulston, John W.; Wynne, Randolph H.; Thomas, Valerie A. 2016. Improving the precision of dynamic forest parameter estimates using Landsat.
• Weiskittel, Aaron R.; MacFarlane, David W.; Radtke, Philip J.; Affleck, David L.R.; Temesgen, Hailemariam; Woodall, Christopher W.; Westfall, James A.; Coulston, John W. 2015. A call to improve methods for estimating tree biomass for regional and national assessments.
• Koch, Frank H.; Smith, William D.; Coulston, John W. 2015. Chapter 4: Drought Patterns in the Conterminous United States, 2012.
• Coulston, John W.; Wear, David N.; Vose, James M. 2015. Complex forest dynamics indicate potential for slowing carbon accumulation in the southeastern United States.
• Zobel, John M.; Coulston, John W. 2015. Determining forest carbon stock losses due to wildfire disturbance in the Western United States.
• Roesch, Francis; Coulston, John; Van Deusen, Paul; Podlaski, Rafal. 2015. Evaluation of image-assisted forest monitoring: A simulation.
• Ruefenacht, Bonnie; Benton, Robert; Johnson, Vicky; Biswas, Tanushree; Baker, Craig; Finco, Mark; Megown, Kevin; Coulston, John; Winterberger, Ken; Riley, Mark. 2015. Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production.
• Wear, Dave; Coulston, John W. 2015. From sink to source: Regional variation in U.S. forest carbon futures.
• Woodall, Christopher W.; Walters, Brian F.; Coulston, John; D’Amato, A.W.; Domke, Grant M.; Russell, M.B.; Sowers, Paul. 2015. Monitoring network confirms land use change is a substantial component of the forest carbon sink in the eastern United States.
• Benton, Robert; Ruefenacht, Bonnie; Johnson, Vicky; Biswas, Tanushree; Baker, Craig; Finco, Mark; Megown, Kevin; Coulston, John; Winterberger, Ken; Riley, Mark. 2015. NLCD tree canopy cover (TCC) maps of the contiguous United States and coastal Alaska.
• Coulston, John; Wear, David; Vose, Jim. 2015. Observed and projected C change in the Southeastern US.
• Freeman, Elizabeth A.; Moisen, Gretchen G.; Coulston, John W.; Wilson, Barry T. (Ty). 2015. Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance.
• Woodall, Christopher W.; Coulston, John W.; Domke, Grant M.; Walters, Brian F.; Wear, David N.; Smith, James E.; Andersen, Hans-Erik; Clough, Brian J.; Cohen, Warren B.; Griffith, Douglas M.; Hagen, Stephen C.; Hanou, Ian S.; Nichols, Michael C.; Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Russell, Matthew B.; Westfall, Jim; Wilson, Barry T. (Ty). 2015. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016.
• Domke, Grant M.; Coulston, John W.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2015. The new forest carbon accounting framework for the United States.
• Coulston, John W.; Reams, Greg; Wear, Dave N.; Brewer, C. Kenneth. 2014. An analysis of forest land use, forest land cover, and change at policy-relevant scales.
• Koch, Frank H.; Smith, William D.; Coulston, John W. 2014. Chapter4 - Drought patterns in the conterminous United States and Hawaii.
• Wickham, James; Homer, Collin; Vogelmann, James; McKerrow, Alexa; Mueler, Rick; Herold, Nate; Coulston, John. 2014. The multi-resolution land characteristics (MRLC) consortium–20 years of development and integration of USA national land cover data.
• Koch, Frank H.; Smith, William D.; Coulston, John W. 2013. An improved method for standardized mapping of drought conditions.
• Westfall, James A.; Pugh, Scott A.; Coulston, John W. 2013. Conducting tests for statistically significant differences using forest inventory data.
• Huggett, Robert; Wear, David N.; Li, Ruhong; Coulston, John; Liu, Shan. 2013. Forecasts of forest conditions.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W. 2013. Fragmentation of eastern United States forest types.
• Koch, Frank H.; Smith, William D.; Coulston, John W. 2013. Recent drought conditions in the Conterminous United States.
• Coulston, John W.; Jacobs, Dennis M.; King, Chris R.; Elmore, Ivey C. 2013. The influence of multi-season imagery on models of canopy cover: A case study.
• Miller, James H.; Lemke, Dawn; Coulston, John. 2013. The invasion of southern forests by nonnative plants: current and future occupation, with impacts, management strategies, and mitigation approaches.
• Patterson, Paul L.; Coulston, John W.; Roesch, Francis A.; Westfall, James A.; Hill, Andrew D. 2012. A primer of nonresponse in the US Forest Inventory and Analysis program.
• Moisen, Gretchen G.; Coulston, John W.; Wilson, Barry T.; Cohen, Warren B.; Finco, Mark V. 2012. Choosing appropriate subpopulations for modeling tree canopy cover nationwide.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W.; Smith, William D. 2012. High-Resolution Mapping of Drought Conditions.
• Lemke, Dawn; Coulston, John W.; Hulme, Philip; Paterson, Clint; Brown, Jennifer A. 2012. Invasive potential of invasive plants in the forest of the southern region, United States.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W.; Smith, William D. 2012. Mapping drought conditions using multi-year windows.
• Coulston, John W.; Moisen, Gretchen G.; Wilson, Barry T.; Finco, Mark V.; Cohen, Warren B.; Brewer, C. Kenneth. 2012. Modeling percent tree canopy cover: a pilot study.
• Tipton, John; Moisen, Gretchen; Patterson, Paul; Jackson, Thomas A.; Coulston, John. 2012. Sampling intensity and normalizations: Exploring cost-driving factors in nationwide mapping of tree canopy cover.
• Roesch, Francis; Coulston, John; Hill, Andrew D. . 2012. Statistical properties of alternative national forest inventory area estimators.
• Woodall, Christopher W.; Smith, James E.; Domke, Grant M.; Healey, Sean P.; Coulston, John W.; Gray, Andrew N. 2012. Technical aspects of the forest carbon inventory of the United States: recent past and near future.
• Coulston, John W.; Nelson, Kellen; Woodall, Christopher W.; Meriwether, David; Reams, Gregory A. 2012. The climate change performance scorecard and carbon estimates for national forest.
• Riitters, Kurt; Coulston, John; Wickham, James. 2011. Fragmentation of forest communities in the eastern United States.
• Coulston, John W. 2011. Modeling ozone bioindicator injury with microscale and landscape-scale explanatory variables: A logistic regression approach.
• Westfall, James A.; Patterson, Paul L.; Coulston, John W. 2011. Post-stratified estimation: with-in strata and total sample size recommendations.
• Woodall, Christopher William; Amacher, Michael C.; Bechtold, William A.; Coulston, John W.; Jovan, Sarah, Dr.; Perry, Charles H.; Randolph, KaDonna C.; Schulz, Beth K.; Smith, Gretchen C.; Will-Wolf, Susan. 2011. Status and future of the forest health indicators program of the USA.
• Koch, Frank H.; Coulston, John W. 2010. Modeling current climate conditions for forest pest risk assessment.
• Woodall, Christopher W.; Conkling, Barbara L.; Amacher, Michael C.; Coulston, John W.; Jovan, Sarah, Dr.; Perry, Charles H.; Schulz, Beth; Smith, Gretchen C.; Will Wolf, Susan. 2010. The Forest Inventory and Analysis Database Version 4.0: Database Description and Users Manual for Phase 3.
• Rose, Anita K.; Coulston, John W. 2009. Ozone injury across the Southern United States, 2002–06.
• Coulston, John W. 2009. Air pollution: Tropospheric ozone, and wet deposition of sulfate and inorganic nitrogen.
• Prisley, Stephen P.; Wang, Huei-Jin; Radtke, Philip J; Coulston, John. 2009. Combining FIA plot data with topographic variables: Are precise locations needed?.
• McCollum, Joseph M.; Gormanson, Dale; Coulston, John. 2009. Correct county areas with sidebars for Virginia.
• Coulston, John W. 2009. Drought.
• Couston, John W. 2009. Insects and diseases.
• Oswalt, Sonja; Huang, Chengquan; Shi, Hua; Vogelmann, James; Zhu, Zhiliang; Goward, Samuel N.; Coulston, John. 2009. Integrating Landsat-derived disturbance maps with FIA inventory data: Applications for state-Level forest resource assessments.
• Oswalt, Sonja N.; Johnson, Tony G.; Coulston, John W.; Oswalt, Christopher M. 2009. Mississippi's forests, 2006.
• Oswalt, Christopher M.; Oswalt, Sonja N.; Johnson, Tony G.; Chamberlain, James L.; Randolph, KaDonna C.; Coulston, John W. 2009. Tennessee's Forests, 2004.
• Coulston, John. 2008. Forest inventory and stratified estimation: a cautionary note.
• Coulston, John W.; Koch, Frank H.; Smith, William D.; Sapio, Frank J. 2008. Invasive forest pest surveillance: survey development and reliability.
• Ambrose, Mark J.; Conkling, Barbara L.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004.
• Coulston, John W. 2007. Drought occurence.
• Coulston, John W. 2007. Fire occurence (2004).
• Coulston, John W. 2007. Insect and disease activity (2003).
• Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J. 2007. Ozone bioindicator.
• Campbell, Sally J.; Wanek, Ron; Coulston, John W. 2007. Ozone injury in west coast forests: 6 years of monitoring.
• Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; McRoberts, Ronald E.; Smith, William D. 2006. True versus perturbed forest inventory plot locations for modeling: a simulation study.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W. 2005. Environmental assessment hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States.
• McRoberts, Ronald E.; Holden, Geoffrey R.; Nelson, Mark D.; Liknes, Greg C.; Moser, Warren K.; Lister, Andrew J.; King, Susan L.; LaPoint, Elizabeth B.; Coulston, John W.; Smith, W. Brad; Reams, Gregory A. 2005. Estimating and circumventing the effects of perturbing and swapping inventory plot locations.
• Conkling, Barbara L.; Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2001 national technical report.
• Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2002 national technical report.
• Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L.; Smith, William D. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2003 national technical report.
• Coulston, John W.; Ambrose, Mark J.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Conkling, Barbara L. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2004 national technical report.
• Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H. 2005. Preserving biodiversity under current and future climates: a case study.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; Coulston, John W. 2004. A preliminary assessment of Montreal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States.
• Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H.; Smith, Grethchen C. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the Montréal process indicators of air pollution for the United States.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James; Coulston, John. 2004. Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States.
• Coulston, John W.; Riitters, Kurt H. 2003. Geographic analysis of forest health indicators using spatial scan statistics.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Coulston, John W.; Wickham, James D. 2003. Localizing National Fragmentation Statistics with Forest Type Maps.
• Coulston, John W.; Smith, Gretchen C.; Smith, William D. 2003. Regional Assessment of Ozone Sensitive Tree Species Using Bioindicator Plants.
• Riitters, Kurt H.; Wickham, James D.; O'Neill, Robert V.; Jones, K. Bruce; Smith, Elizabeth R.; Coulston, John W.; Wade, Timothy G.; Smith, Jonathan H. 2002. Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests.

Research Highlights

Carbon Accumulation by U.S. Forests May Slow Over the Next 25 Years (2016)

U.S. forests currently help offset carbon emissions and reduce the overall costs of achieving emission targets but that could change over the next 25 years. The accumulation of carbon stored in U.S. forests may slow in the future, primarily due to land use change and forest aging, according to findings by Forest Service scientists. Future declines in forest carbon sequestration could influence emission reduction targets and impact the costs of achieving policy goals. Policies that encourage retaining or expanding forest land could enhance carbon sequestration levels over the next 25 years.

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Future Drinking Water Supply Depends on Interactions of Climate, Land Use, and Water Management (2020)

Changes in climate and land use strongly shape water resource management, but understanding their joint impacts is extremely challenging. To reliably meet future drinking water demands, water utilities must understand potential impacts of climate and land use changes on water availability.This work underscores the need to consider system responses and outcomes when determining the impacts of hydrologic change on drinking water availability.

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New research reveals that mixed land use watersheds are most vulnerable to forest loss (2017)

Forest Service scientists developed a novel land use model and integrated modeling framework that represents a significant advancement for evaluating the potential effects of climate and land use change at scales necessary to inform policy and management decision-making. Their findings indicate that land use change was particularly influential in a mixed land use watershed, which is especially important for identifying areas where hydrologic responses are most sensitive to land use change. This study emphasizes the importance of integrated modeling to predict future water resources, including impacts from land use change, climate change, forest dynamics, and hydrological processes.

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