Southern Urban and Interface Forests - What's New

In this Update we feature the following topics (1) Special Feature: Archived Changing Roles Webinar on Ecosystem Goods and Services; (2) Research: Urban and Peri-Urban Forest Indicators for Assessing Ecosystem Services and Goods ; (3) Upcoming Event: A Community on Ecosystem Services (ACES) 2010 ; (4) In the News: Money Can Grow on Trees; (5) Literature: Caring for Our Natural Assets: An Ecosystem Services Perspective ; and (6)Website: USDA Forest Service Ecosystem Services.

This session will be presented by Dr. Steve McNulty, Team Leader, Ecologist, Eastern Forest Environmental Threats Assessment Center. USDA Forest Service.

This webinar session will:
• provide an introduction to climate change
• discuss interactions between climate change and other environmental stresses on US forest health including increasing climate variability, bringing more intense precipitation events, doughts, and heat waves. These changes will then affect soil erosion, sedimentation, and wildfire.
• discuss potential changes in insect and disease outbreak.
• discuss long-term climate change leading to changes in ecosystem composition
fisheries, and wildlife habitat, forest and range land productivity, and stream flow.

 

A USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station (NRS) report released in September 2010, Sustaining America’s Urban Trees and Forests, can help those who manage and care about urban trees and forests to increase public awareness of their importance, their many benefits, and the various factors that challenge the management of these critical resources.

Both electronic and printed copies of Sustaining America’s Urban Trees and Forests can be ordered at www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/35572 .

This session will be presented by Dr. Steve McNulty, Team Leader, Ecologist, Eastern Forest Environmental Threats Assessment Center. USDA Forest Service.

This webinar session will:
• provide an introduction to climate change
• discuss interactions between climate change and other environmental stresses on US   forest health including increasing climate variability, bringing more intense precipitation events, doughts, and heat waves. These changes will then affect soil erosion, sedimentation, and wildfire.
• discuss potential changes in insect and disease outbreak.
• discuss long-term climate change leading to changes in ecosystem composition
fisheries, and wildlife habitat, forest and range land productivity, and stream
flow.