Climate Change
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The nation’s forests and grasslands are inextricably tied to current and future impacts of climate change. Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) research describes climate impacts and offers new climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies that help make forests and grasslands more resilient, communities more prepared, and green markets more viable.
The Rocky Mountain Research Station Climate Change Research Strategy describes cutting-edge climate change science and recommendations for future research investments.
The Climate Science Fact Sheet describes several RMRS climate science programs, publications, and tools.
Featured Work
- Assessment of the influence of disturbance, management activities, and environmental factors on carbon stocks of U.S. national forests: This report assesses how carbon stocks are affected by factors such as timber harvesting, natural disturbances, climate variability, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, and nitrogen deposition.
- Need to manage management decisions about carbon: There is a dashboard for that: The Carbon Dashboard provides carbon stock data for every national forest.
