Forests provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat, ecosystem services and are a renewable resource for many of the products we use daily. The NCASI Foundation supports research to ensure healthier and more productive forests for the betterment of the future. These projects address important technical questions related to sustainable forestry, forest environmental management, and forest health. A vigorous consultative relationship with representatives of landowners, forest products companies, regulatory agencies, academic institutions, and environmental organizations underpins this work.
Wildfires can have severe and lasting impacts on ecological, economic, and social resources. To reduce and mitigate fire severity, managers require information about relative influences of topography, weather, fuels, prior management activities, biophysical setting, human infrastructure, and other variables that influence wildfire occurrence, spread, and severity.
This project is to develop and host an online tool that will estimate and display forest carbon stocks, forest carbon stock changes, and water resources on lands certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) across the conterminous US.
Forests produce clean water and air, beautiful landscapes, recreation opportunities, fish and wildlife habitat, and sequester carbon that helps mitigate…