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National Best Management Practices Monitoring Summary Report: Overview of Results Fiscal Years 2015–2022

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This monitoring summary report provides a high-level overview of national best management practices in monitoring completed in fiscal years 2015 through 2022 at more than 4,350 sites across the United States. The report supports land management plans and project-level decisions and identifies areas for improvement.

#LandManagement, #LandManagementPlanning, #Water

Working for the American People

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This factsheet highlights recent Forest Service accomplishments to include wildfire risk reduction, healthy forests, and contributions to America's food supply. Thousands of Forest Service jobs support our mission of caring for the land and serving people.

#WildfireRiskReduction, #Water, #Grazing, #Recreation

Water is life

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The Rio Fernando Collaborative has partnered with Taos County and the Forest Service to reduce wildfire risk and improve water availability in the Taos, New Mexico region. From left to right – Wayne Rutherford, Joe Fernandez, MaryAnn Fernandez, Vicente Fernandez, Ed Bell, Patricia Martinez Rutherford and Michael Lujan. (USDA/Forest Service photo by…
#Watershed, #WildfireCrisisStrategy, #Water

Water experts convene in Romania

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Reconnecting Rivers workshop participants visit barrier in upper Vâlsan River, Romania. USDA Forest Service photo by Kelsey Aho. WASHINGTON, D.C.—The USDA Forest Service International Programs office recently collaborated with the American engineering firm Inter-Fluve to support a two-day “…
#InternationalPrograms, #InternationalForestry, #Water, #Freshwater

Alaska’s first Community Forest Program Grant will protect watershed, create new park

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Community Forest Program Grants protect predominantly forested areas such as the hillside of the proposed Potter Marsh Watershed Park, which contains streams and wetlands that flow into Potter Marsh. Photo courtesy Carl Johnson. ALASKA—On the southern edge of Anchorage lies Potter Marsh, a…
#Community, #Water, #Watershed, #Alaska

New tool identifies opportunities to protect, enhance America's waterways

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Aerial view of a riparian buffer zone along a river. Photo courtesy Buffering America’s Waterways website. WISCONSIN—The USDA Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service jointly developed a robust interactive map to prioritize waterway enhancement in the contiguous…
#Water, #Watershed, #Riparian