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Virginia is a forested state with just over 16 million acres of forestland, the majority privately owned. Over two-thirds of that forestland is classified as hardwood or hardwood pine. Virginia’s 2020 Forest Action Plan identifies the trends, conditions, and threats relevant to this important natural resource.
Your state’s Forest Action Plan includes in-depth analysis of forest conditions and trends in your area. Collectively, the states’ Forest Action Plans make up a roadmap for forest management on a national scale. FIND YOUR STATE.
Texas forests provide timber, wildlife habitat, clean water, and recreational opportunities for millions of Texans. Collectively, the forest sector contributes over $36 billion to the Texas economy, providing 168,000 jobs.
Area-based invasive species management is an integral component of native forest restoration. Protect. Protect our forested watersheds and urban forests from invasive species, introduced disease and wildfire. Native ecosystems in Hawaii are not adaptive to wildfire.
Oklahoma’s 12.5 million acres of forestlands are among the most diverse in the nation; ranging from the dense pine and hardwood stands of eastern Oklahoma, through the unique Cross Timbers of the central counties, to the riparian forests of our western rivers.
Providing professional forestry services to the people of Illinois. Multiple factors affect forest health, particularly exotic invasive plants, insects and pathogens. Preliminary data of FIA plots shows that exotic invasive plants are widely distributed across Illinois.
Conserve working forests through sustainable forestry practices and encourage policy-makers to offer incentives to landowners. The waters of Kentucky include over 49,000 streams and rivers and over one million acres of lakes and reservoirs.
The assessment identifies 15 threats and priorities, including forest health, wildfire management, the need for a viable forest products industry, the decline of riparian forests, the challenge of community forestry in Wyoming, protection of water quality and quantity, and more.
Established in 1920, the National Association of State Foresters is a non-profit organization composed of the directors of forestry agencies in the 50 states, five U.S. territories, three nations in compacts of free association with the U.S., and the District of Columbia.
The Forestry Division is charged with integrating climate mitigation and adaptation practices related to natural and working lands into state agency operations and promoting forest and watershed management that will help ensure the long-term sustainability and resilience of New Mexico’s natural and working lands and reduce the vulnerability ...