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Featured Scientist

Mark Nelson’s love of nature began with seeing elephants out the car window.

View from scenic overlook at Cedar Gap Conservation Area. Photo by Missouri Department of Conservation, used with permission.

Featured Product

New FIA reporting format invites user engagement

Diverse forest on Rainy Lake in Northern Minnesota. USDA Forest Service photo by Andrea Brandon.

Featured Partnership

Meshing U.S. and Canada data allows range-wide view of tree habitat suitability

US Forest Service Northern Research Station

December Feature - Forest Inventory and Analysis

December’s dark afternoons inspire reflection on all that we are thankful for and all that we have accomplished over the previous 12 months. This month, we pay homage to the accomplishments of the Northern Research Station’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) group and introduce a scientist who learned to love nature in the wilds of South Africa, an interactive report on Missouri forests that enables users to explore FIA data in more unique and dynamic ways, and a partnership that is combining FIA data with Canadian forest inventory data to make predictions about how climate-induced habitat changes may impact tree species distribution.

Rooted in Research

On the Search for Success: Revisiting Group Selection in Promoting Northern Hardwood Forest Biodiversity

If you walk through a northern hardwood forest in the Lakes States region today, you'll likely experience something different than your ancestors would have centuries ago.

Forestcast

Cicada emergence hole in soil surrounded by dead cicadas. Photo by Mac Callham, USDA Forest Service.

New Podcast Episode: Mac Callaham, a research ecologist, goes searching in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest for one of Brood X’s most-southern cicada emergences.

Field note from a scientist on a once in 17 year event. Listen here >>