Research in a diversity of areas leads to the development of appropriate management and policy decisions in the context of climate change; these areas include fire, invasive species, bioenergy, genetics, silviculture, and fish and wildlife.
Within the Forest Service, R&D works closely with the Office of the Climate Change Advisor to provide research support to the National Forest System as it develops management strategies for forests and rangelands that will be resilient to climate change.
At the national level, the Forest Service Global Change Research Program coordinates much of its climate change research with other federal government research organizations through the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Likewise, within the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service R&D works closely with the USDA Climate Change Program Office. Coordination with other federal land management agencies occurs through a variety avenues, including interagency working groups, the newly formed U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, and the U.S. Department of Interiorís Climate Science Centers.
Forest Service Washington Office R&D staff participates in numerous Forest Service, USDA, and interagency efforts. Some of these groups and the primary Washington Office R&D contacts are:
|Randy Johnson||Adaptation Working Group|
|Amy Daniels||Adaptation Working Group|
|Chris Farley||Mitigation Working Group|
US Global Change Research Program
|Amy Daniels||Urban/Communities Workgroup|
|Beth Larry||Urban/Communities Workgroup|
|Katherine Smith||National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy|
Infrastructures Supporting the Global Change Research Program
Examples of infrastructures supporting the Forest Service Global Change Research Program include: