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The Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) is a facility of the United States Forest Service (USFS). It receives weather and fire-monitoring data remotely-sensed by satellites, and converts it into maps and reports for the USFS.
There are nine regions in the Forest Service; numbered 1 through 10 (Region 7 was eliminated in 1965 when the current Eastern Region was created from the former Eastern and North Central regions. [18]). Each encompasses a broad geographic area and is headed by a regional forester who reports directly to the Chief.
Perry Creek Research Natural Area in Washington. Research Natural Area is a designation for certain protected areas in the United States.. Research Natural Areas (RNAs) are part of a nationwide network of ecological areas set aside for both research and education.
i-Tree is a collection of urban and rural forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. It was designed and developed by the United States Forest Service to quantify and value ecosystem services provided by trees including pollution removal, carbon sequestration, avoided carbon emissions, avoided stormwater runoff, and more. i-Tree provides baseline data so that the growth of trees can be ...
Each map was bounded by two parallels and two meridians spaced 15 minutes apart—the same area covered by four maps in the 7.5-minute series. The 15-minute series, at a scale of 1:63,360 (one inch representing one mile), remains the primary topographic quadrangle for the state of Alaska (and only for that particular state).
United States Forest Service (USFS) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) These wilderness areas cover about 4.5% of the United States' land area, an area larger than the state of California. About 52% of the wilderness area is in Alaska, with 57,425,569 acres (89,727.452 sq mi; 232,393.03 km 2) of ...
The R&D organization has been part of the USFS mission since the agency was created in 1905. [6] As one of seven units in the USFS R&D organization, the Southern Research Station had its beginnings as two separate entities – the Southern Forest Experiment Station and the Southeastern Forest Experiment Station. [7]
A 1993 Forest Service study estimated that the extent of old growth in the forest was 643,500 acres (260,400 ha). [16] In addition, Congressional action since 1964 has established the following wilderness areas, which comprise 827,101 acres (3,347 km 2)—almost half of the forest's area: [2] Alpine Lakes Wilderness (mostly in Wenatchee NF)