Interface South

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Natural resource agencies are being called upon to provide solutions to increasingly complex challenges at the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Communities are growing rapidly, landowners’ management goals often conflict, residents may not understand the benefits of resource management, and the resulting risks to environmental quality and human quality of life are becoming more apparent.

Through the Discover the Forest campaign, the U.S. Forest Service has partnered with the Ad Council and Universal Pictures to launch a series of public service advertisements (PSAs) and educational materials featuring characters from the animated adventure Dr Seuss’ The Lorax. The PSAs and the educational materials aim to encourage parents, caregivers and their kids to go out to the forest to experience and reconnect with nature. Like Truffula Trees, forests are renewable resources that offer numerous benefits.

Kids today spend twice as much time indoors as their parents did, missing out on the simple pleasures and lasting mental and physical health benefits of daily outdoor time. This section of our website is dedicated to providing resources and ideas for increasing the amount of time kids spend outdoors. This ties in with the US Forest Service initiative More Kids in the Woods.

A series of fact sheets was developed from the research findings to provide information that can assist land-use planning, decision making, and management around El Yunque National Forest. A series of guides was developed to describe the techniques that were used in the study and to provide step-by-step instructions in their use. These techniques can be used by others to conduct studies or implement projects on similar topics. The guides also provide the main findings of the different components of the study.

It might appear that the only people who profit from Florida’s forests are landowners, but a new University of Florida study says the trees provide valuable services to land users and people in surrounding communities. As forests grow, they filter water, store carbon and perform other helpful functions that are known collectively as ecosystem services. These services are often overlooked by the public but UF researchers found a way to estimate their dollar value, which can exceed $5,000 per acre over 20 years.

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