Forest Service Creates Climate Change Research and Development Website
As a land management agency, the USDA Forest Service hasa unique responsibility to address questions about climate changemitigation and adaptation involving the many issues that challenge forestand rangeland owners, managers, and users.
The agency’s research and development focuses on questions about climate change impacts, such as the adaptation actions needed to increase resilience of forests and ranges to the effects of climate change; the potential of forests to mitigate atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration changes by storing additional carbon in living vegetation and forest products; and reducing fossil carbon use by increasing production of biofuels and substituting forest products for more greenhouse gas-intensive materials.
To learn more, visit the Forest Service website.
http://www.fs.fed.us/research/fsgc/climate-change.shtml
Source: SAF E-Newsletter
