Publications

The third year of the agency's Wildfire Crisis Strategy saw work continue across the 21 landscapes and throughout the nation. This latest publication highlights the accomplishments and challenges as the Forest Service leads the effort to reduce the risks of severe wildfire impacting our country's communities, infrastructure, and natural resources. New and expanded programs, partnerships, and other relationships continue to drive progress forward.

This accomplishment report highlights the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program's impact of investing in lands managed by the Forest Service. The CFLRP accomplishments over the last 15 years are driven by place-based, multiyear funding, and include improvements across 6.7 million acres from fuels reduction, tree planting, trail maintenance, stream restoration, invasive plant treatments, and fish passage. This publication is adapted from a report submitted to Congress in June 2024.

This annual report of the Forest Health Monitoring Program describes research by Forest Service scientists and partners and presents forest health status and trends from a national or multistate regional perspective.

This biannual publication provides information about nurseries and nursery production, including seed sourcing, seedling care, and transplanting seedlings for reforestation and related activities. The fall 2024 issue includes a look at a black walnut tree farm in Vermont 30 years after planting, cold storage effects on big sagebrush, how color-coating seeds improves nursery productions, and using Ellepots instead of Styroblocks at Pacific Northwest Nurseries. Finally, it includes the annual nursery seedling production report.

The Forest Service has released this annual national fact sheet almost every year since 1987 as an informational and educational resource for private forest landowners and their tax advisors. This publication updates details from the 2023 version and includes now content on conservation easements.

Forest Service researchers and partners compile estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and removals, based primarily on Nationwide Forest Inventory data collected and maintained by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program. This annual resource bulletin summarizes data presented in the “Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry” chapter of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s inventory report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

This quick start guide provides instructions on how to use the Forest Service's Climate Risk Viewer, a tool developed to illustrate, estimate, and project forest trends for key resources such as carbon, water, and at-risk species. Included in the… Topic: Science and Technology
Type: Fact Sheet
Number: FS-1253
Year: 2024

This report about the agency’s Forest Health Protection program includes the organizational structure, an overview of the guiding legislation and policies, and highlights of the core program areas: surveying and monitoring, technical and financial assistance, treatments, methodology and technology development, and outreach and partnerships.

This annual report details impacts on forests from various insects and diseases. Compiled by Forest Health Protection staff, the report contains maps of damage (mortality and defoliation) and discusses recent trends in monitoring and management of forest pests. The 2023 edition includes spotlights on how the agency is responding to specific threats.

The recreation opportunity spectrum is the Forest Service’s system to define, allocate, manage, and monitor existing and desired recreation settings and opportunities. It provides distinct recreation opportunities for personal experiences and benefits, unique to each individual visitor.

The recreation opportunity spectrum is the Forest Service’s system to define, allocate, manage, and monitor existing and desired recreation settings and opportunities. This guide provides suggested steps and tools for using the spectrum during land management planning, organized by plan revision phases, and followed by examples of project-level implementation.

The Forest Service has used aircraft in fire management since 1919. This book details that history, from the early days of air patrols with the U.S. Army to the modern use of airtankers, helicopters, infrared aircraft, and more through 2021. 

This biannual publication provides information about nurseries and nursery production, including seed sourcing, seedling care, and transplanting seedlings for reforestation and related activities. The spring 2024 issue includes articles about zinc deficiencies, seed transfer (loblolly pine, red spruce, and black cherry), increasing the scale of nursery production, and the impacts of climate change on nurseries.

This strategy document details how the Forest Service works to mitigate the impacts of its operations on the climate crisis. With goals that include reducing agency emissions, shifting consumption habits and purchases, and ensuring that Forest… Topic: Natural Resources and Conservation
Type: General
Number: FS-1247
Year: 2024

Fiscal year 2023 marked the second year of annual reporting for the Climate Action Tracker, which is the Forest Service’s primary reporting and tracking tool on climate change actions. This publication summarizes agency progress on climate change… Topic: Natural Resources and Conservation
Type: General
Number: FS-1245b
Year: 2024