U.S. Forest Service

At a glance

U.S. Forest Service is a association that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.

New Southern Forest Outlook Report highlights water and forests

Water is everywhere. It falls freely from the sky and flows across the earth. Humans are inextricably connected to water and to forests. Changes in land use, forest conditions, and climate affect water – with consequences for drinking water treatment costs, flood protection, and other ecosystem services. Climate and land use change have and will […]

U.S. Forest Service · 13 Dec 2024

22 Feb 2019

Ecosystem responses to dam removal complex, but predictable

In the United States, the removal of dams now outpaces the construction of new ones—with more than 1,400 dams decommissioned since the 1970s—and a new study(link is external) suggests that the ecosystem effects of dam removal can be predicted. Published in the journal BioScience, the study identifies a consistent set of physical and biological processes that control ecological […]