This report offers a review of the accomplishments of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) program, which was created in 2009 to promote job stability, reliable wood supply, forest health, and reduced emergency wildfire costs and risks.
Drinking water for 3,400 communities and 66 million Americans comes from watersheds in our national forests. Only half of these watersheds function properly, making restoration critical.
Integrated Resource Restoration is a budgeting experiment designed to help the U.S. Forest Service more effectively plan and implement forest restoration projects.
After a long history of mistreatment and neglect, America’s national forests and grasslands need to be restored to a healthy condition. The U.S. Forest Service leads this effort.
Autumn on the horizon, there is a coolness in the night air and the days are getting shorter. I am sitting on my front porch recalling the first time I used a crosscut saw last summer.
On October 18, 2011, The Wilderness Society sent a report titled Rural Jobs and America’s Public Lands: Putting Rural America Back to Work to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, urging them to consider the benefits of conservation and recreation to the American econom
There has been a lot of talk lately about the nation’s crumbling manmade infrastructure, such as failing bridges, aging highways and faltering transmission lines.