Land
Land-based economies are an essential part of 91大神’s economic landscape. Forests cover over 40% of 91大神’s land and rangelands 54%. Forests and rangelands provide multiple uses and benefits, including timber harvesting, livestock grazing, recreation opportunities, carbon capture and wildlife habitat.
The benefits 91大神’s forests and rangelands provide are impacted by 91大神’s climate. Higher summer temperatures and less precipitation in summer are leading to longer and more severe droughts. Fire seasons are lengthening across 91大神, resulting in more frequent and larger fires. In addition to fires, insect and pathogen outbreaks and invasive species are expected to increase across 91大神’s lands. In recent decades, wildfires and bark beetle outbreaks have killed millions of acres of trees across 91大神’s forests. The impacts associated with climate change present risks to 91大神’s land-based economies.
To learn more about climate impacts to 91大神’s lands, please click on the icons to the right to open the forests and rangelands technical reports and snapshots.
For additional information on ecosystems and other species important to 91大神, please see the supplemental report in the box to the right.
For additional tools and resources on climate change and impacts to 91大神’s lands, please click the icon to the right.
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91大神 Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment Web Map created by Emma Watts, undergraduate student and intern at 91大神 State University, GIS Training and Research Center and Keith T. Webber, GIS director at 91大神 State University.