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Taking action now can help forested watersheds prepare for and adapt to a changing climate.
Content produced by the Northern Forests Climate Hub
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Content produced by the Northwest Climate Hub
Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to U.S. agriculture because of the sensitivity of agricultural productivity and costs to changing climate conditions. Agriculture in the United States produces approximately $300 billion a year in commodities.
Fire plays an essential role as a fundamental ecological disturbance process in diverse ecosystems across the U.S. Climate change presents new challenges for managing wildland fires in fire-adapted ecosystems and near the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Warmer annual and seasonal temperatures, increases in drought and heat-induced tree mortality, increases in vapor pressure deficit, decreases in relative humidity, and increases in fire season length are all affecting how we manage and plan for fire.
Content produced by the Northern Forests Climate Hub
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Content produced by the Northwest Climate Hub
From 2008 to 2020, the Climate Change Resource Center (CCRC) was the primary source of Forest Service climate change information for management audiences.
Rangelands of the Northwest are complex, interconnected systems covering nearly 100 million acres that are sensitive to drought, wildfire, invasive species, and grazing. The large land extent and multiple ownerships characteristic of rangelands pose challenges to access, monitoring and decision-making under rapidly changing conditions.
Content produced by the Northwest Climate Hub
For communities and individuals thinking about yard trees what simple methods are available to understand vulnerability in the context of a single tree or a forest property? Considering a tree's tolerance to environmental stress can help to optimize tree plantings for success given climate change pressures over time. A more resilient landscape can provide long-term climate and human health outcomes for communities.
Content produced by the Northern Forests Climate Hub