Taking Stock with the Resources Planning Act: The Outlook for Natural Resources in the United States and the Rocky Mountain Region

Sylvia Kantor, Linda A. Joyce, O’Dea, Claire B., Matt Reeves and Travis Warziniack

No 359097, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture

Abstract: Every 10 years the Forest Service presents an assessment of the nation’s forests and rangelands. The 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment (RPA Assessment) looks at historical data trends and projects the availability and condition of renewable resources across the nation’s forests and rangelands 50 years into the future. Mandated by the 1974 Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act, it is the sixth report in almost 50 years. Scientists from USDA Forest Service research stations, including the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), and numerous collaborators have been hard at work modeling and analyzing how climate, population growth, and socioeconomic change are likely to affect a spectrum of land uses and natural resources across private and public lands. The RPA Assessment presents a wealth of information about past trends and projected futures for land use, forests and rangelands, forest product markets, water resources, biodiversity, and outdoor recreation. This Science You Can Use Bulletin presents a sampling of findings relevant to disturbance, forests and rangelands, and water, both across the nation and specifically within the RPA Rocky Mountain Region.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.359097

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