The Centers are a collaborative effort administered within Forest Service Research and Development, and receive additional funding and direction from two other branches of the Forest Service—the National Forest System and State and Private Forestry. The Western Center is a unit of the Pacific Northwest Research Station and is located in Prineville, OR. The Eastern Center is housed within the Southern Research Station and is headquartered in Asheville, NC. When the Southern Research Station reorganized in 2006, the Eastern Center merged with the Southern Global Change Program in Raleigh and the Forest Health Monitoring unit in Research Triangle Park, NC—two existing research units with complementary missions. The merger substantively increased the research capacity and infrastructure of the Eastern Center.

The Centers annually receive approximately $2.4 million each, targeted at environmental threat assessment, with each branch of the Forest Service providing an equal share ($800,000). The Eastern Center receives an additional $2 million to fund research on climate change and forest health monitoring. These funds principally come from Research and Development but also include contributions from State and Private Forestry and non-Forest Service partners.


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