The Fifth National Climate Assessment is a comprehensive report of the effects of climate change on the United States, including its people, landscapes, and natural resources.

In the past decade alone, the Southern Sierra region has experienced extensive tree mortality, severe drought, a bark beetle epidemic, and large and severe wildfires. This new era of fire and climate…

An assemblage of key reforestation resources

Two special issues in the journal Climatic Change feature vulnerability assessments of agriculture and forestry across the Nation.

This Forest Management Handbook is written specifically for small-parcel (10-100 acre) landowners in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascades Regions. It takes landowners through a step-by-step guide…

The Healthy Forests briefs series, authored by the Science Advisory Panel of the California Governor’s Forest Management Task Force in collaboration with the USDA California Climate Hub and the USGS…

California’s forests are experiencing unprecedented stress and disturbances driven by multiple factors, including the effects of climate change. The Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for…

A report describing the potential vulnerability of crops, forests and animal agriculture to climate-driven environmental changes (Sw and CA Hub regions)

Within the past decade, the state’s forests have experienced drastic changes due to destructive and severe wildfires, a 1,000-year drought, and the associated stressors that come with a changing…

California has 33 million acres of forest land, one-third of the state’s total land area. Sixty percent of this forest is publicly owned - for example, by the USDA Forest Service and the National…