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Feral swine have recently invaded parts of the Northwest. They have been invading southwestern and central Oregon since 2004 and were first detected in Washington in 2016. Idaho has not seen significant numbers of feral swine, however migrating pigs may pose a threat.
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
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Diverse actions can address climate change in urban forest management while recognizing the fundamentally interconnected nature of human health and wellbeing.
Urban areas can be particularly vulnerable to climate change due to extensive impervious cover, increased pollution, greater human population densities, and a concentration of built structures that intensify impacts from urban heat, drought, and extreme weather. Urban residents are at risk from a variety of climate stressors, which can cause both physical and mental harm.
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Forests are a defining landscape feature throughout the Northern Forests Climate Hub and are central to ecological, economic, and cultural values in the region. These ecosystems are already responding to changing conditions, and future changes could dramatically alter the landscape that characterizes the region.
What is vulnerability?
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Taking action now can help forested watersheds prepare for and adapt to a changing climate.
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
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Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to U.S. agriculture because of the sensitivity of agricultural productivity and costs to changing climate conditions. Agriculture in the United States produces approximately $300 billion a year in commodities.
Fire plays an essential role as a fundamental ecological disturbance process in diverse ecosystems across the U.S.
Climate change presents new challenges for managing wildland fires in fire-adapted ecosystems and near the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI). Warmer annual and seasonal temperatures, increases in drought and heat-induced tree mortality, increases in vapor pressure deficit, decreases in relative humidity, and increases in fire season length are all affecting how we manage and plan for fire.
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Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
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