Forests provide clean air and water, wildlife habitat, ecosystem services and are a renewable resource for many of the products we use daily. The NCASI Foundation supports research to ensure healthier and more productive forests for the betterment of the future. These projects address important technical questions related to sustainable forestry, forest environmental management, and forest health. A vigorous consultative relationship with representatives of landowners, forest products companies, regulatory agencies, academic institutions, and environmental organizations underpins this work.
Wildfires can have severe and lasting impacts on ecological, economic, and social resources. To reduce and mitigate fire severity, managers require information about relative influences of topography, weather, fuels, prior management activities, biophysical setting, human infrastructure, and other variables that influence wildfire occurrence, spread, and severity.
Learn MoreThis project is to develop and host an online tool that will estimate and display forest carbon stocks, forest carbon stock changes, and water resources on lands certified under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) across the conterminous US.
Learn MoreProject CAPTURE, a USDA Forest Service assessment tool, uses FIA data, along with life-history trait and pest and pathogen threat…
Learn MoreSecuring our Future Forests by Enhancing Technology, Capacity, and Speed The TGI5 is a North American effort to accelerate the…
Learn MoreNovember 28 – 29, 2018, Washington D.C. The Forest.Health Tree Protection Workshop assembled a wide range of expertise and perspectives…
Learn MoreHealthy and productive forests are vital to the survival of nearly every species on the planet. But human activities, pests,…
Learn MoreThe Forest Health Initiative is a collaborative effort to advance the country’s understanding and role of biotechnology to address some…
Learn MoreForests produce clean water and air, beautiful landscapes, recreation opportunities, fish and wildlife habitat, and sequester carbon that helps mitigate…
Learn More