PARTNERS: Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC), USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

SUMMARY: The Encyclopedia of Forest Environmental Threats delivers to researchers, land managers, and policymakers the scientific knowledge about environmental threats they need to achieve their objectives. This encyclopedia – like the others in the Forest Encyclopedia Network – connects scientific results, conclusions, and impacts with management needs and issues. Topical areas addressed in the encyclopedia include: land (wildland loss, soil quality), air and water, fire (ignition, severity and spread, post-fire), and pests/biota (native, exotic, dispersal).

EFETAC'S ROLE: EFETAC provided funding support for this project, and Center Director Danny C. Lee serves as a managing editor.

STATUS: Completed

PROGRESS: Syntheses form the backbone of the Threats Encyclopedia. This content, suitable for expansion and updating, is augmented by some 35 snapshot "case studies" in the following several months. A parallel hardcopy publication is in preparation for publication.

LINKS:

Forest Threats Encyclopedia

Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC)

USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station

USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station

CONTACT: TBD

Updated June 2010