Summary/Abstract
The Forest Service’s National Roadmap integrates land management, outreach, and sustainable operations accounting. It focuses on three kinds of activities: assessing current risks, vulnerabilities, policies, and gaps in knowledge; engaging partners in seeking solutions and learning from as well as educating the public and employees on climate change issues; and managing for resilience, in ecosystems as well as in human communities, through adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable consumption strategies.
The Forest Service’s management strategies in the report include actively managing carbon stocks in forests, grasslands, and urban areas over time by doing the following:
- Rapidly reforesting land damaged by fires, hurricanes, and other disturbances, consistent with land management objectives.
- Conserving working forests and grasslands.
- Providing technical assistance for programs designed to enhance carbon sequestration potential through afforestation, reforestation, and practices that increase and maintain productivity and ecosystem health.
- Encouraging communities to retain green space and to plant and maintain trees.
- Using available tools to understand the impacts of management actions on carbon stocks and fluxes.