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Forest Threats Encyclopedia
PARTNERS: Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC), USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
SUMMARY: The Encyclopedia of Forest Environmental Threats promises to deliver to researchers, land managers, and policymakers the scientific knowledge about environmental threats they need to achieve their objectives. This encyclopedia – like the others in the Forest Encyclopedia Network – will connect scientific results, conclusions, and impacts with management needs and issues. Topical areas to be addressed in the encyclopedia include: land (wildland loss, soil quality), air and water, fire (ignition, severity and spread, post-fire), and pests/biota (native, exotic, dispersal).
STATUS: Ongoing
PROGRESS: Syntheses form the backbone of the Threats Encyclopedia and were officially launched in July 2008. This content, suitable for expansion and updating, will be augmented by some 35 snapshot "case studies" in the following several months. A parallel hardcopy publication is in preparation for publication in late 2008 or early 2009.
LINKS:
Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC)
USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
CONTACT: John Pye, Southern Research Station Ecologist, jpye@fs.fed.us or (919) 549-4013
