U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station Serving California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands, 2015 Accomplishments Report.

摘要

Leaders of Region 5 and PSW Research Station have a common goal of retaining and restoring ecological resilience of national forest lands to achieve sustainable ecosystems that provide a broad range of services to humans and other organisms. Combined effects of changing climate and hydrologic patterns, unhealthy forests, and rapidly growing human populations are resulting in increasingly over-allocated and undervalued ecosystem services (especially water); a dramatic increase in large wildfires, floods, and insect and disease outbreaks; threats from terrestrial and aquatic invasive species; and a growing need to revitalize rural economies in California, Hawaii, and the Pacific Islands. Region 5 and PSW Research Station are facing these challenges together and through collaboration with external partners around watershed restoration and forest resiliency.