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Science You Can Use is a product of USDA Forest Service Research & Development that summarizes and synthesizes current scientific research. In each episode, we read aloud the latest Science You Can Use publication.
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Bucking the trend: Understanding women's growing participation in hunting in the Mountain-Prairie region (opens the original)
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For decades, national participation in hunting has been on the decline. One population of hunters, however, is bucking the trend: Women. Studies on women in hunting often focus on barriers to participation, such as lack of leisure time, lack of experience, and lack of role models. But despite those barriers, women's participation has been increasing. In 2022 an estimated 3 million women represented 22 percent of all hunters, more than double the number from 2016. Given this upward trend, there a
Multi-age, multi-use: Tips for transforming Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine forests from even-aged to multi-aged structures (opens the original)
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Have you ever looked at a towering ponderosa pine forest and wondered how old the trees are? Were all the trees of a similar age, known as an "even-aged structure," such as often results from a reforestation effort where all the seedlings were planted at the same time. Or were there a mixture of young and old trees? That sort of "multi-aged structure" in ponderosa pine forests is desirable as it can meet many of the goals of multi-use land management. A forest stand with different-aged trees can
Map in a Snap: RegenMapper Quickly Identifies, Prioritizes Replanting Locations (opens the original)
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The 2017 fire season in Montana was especially severe, with more than 2,400 wildfires burning about 1.4 million acres across the state. In the aftermath, the Forest Service's Northern Region headquarters helped assess and prioritize national forest recovery needs. The work required hundreds of hours compiling data, matching it with GIS layers and fire boundaries, and considering factors such as slope, aspect, and the presence of nearby tree species. Music courtesy of Souvenir Thread Read the Sci
Managing fire for more species: Landscape mosaics benefit plants and animals in Sierra Nevada forests (opens the original)
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In the dry, fire-adapted forests of California's Sierra Nevada - where yellow pine, mixed conifer, and red fir historically burned on frequent, low-to-moderate severity cycles - restoring historical fire regimes has been a guiding principle for ecological management. But most contemporary forests in this region are far from that benchmark. Instead, these forests have been shaped by decades of fire suppression, and increasingly, by megafires at the opposite extreme. Music courtesy of Souvenir Thr
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