Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center (FRESC)

An example of mowed linear fuel breaks along both sides of a gravel road in southwestern Idaho

Willamette River side channel, Snag Boat Bend, Finley Nat'l Wildlife Refuge near Corvallis, Oregon

A USGS scientist spreads moss fragments for a study to test the restoration potential of moss, an important component of biological soil crust. A jute net, foreground, helps stabilize the moss fragments as they adhere to the soil.

The Alsea River in the Oregon Coast Range

Metolius River, Smiling River Campground, Deschutes National Forest

Looking out over a red alder forest with evergreen trees at Cascade Head Preserve in Oregon.

PTT, or platform transmitter terminal, recovered from 22.83 year old male osprey. 

Researchers examine a bat (Myotis sp.) to test for the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome.

The USGS is researching how trees and epiphytic lichens are affected by nitrogen deposition in temperate forests.

Cover photo for Shinneman, D.J., Welty, J.L., Arkle, R.S., Pilliod, D.S., Glenn, N.F., McIlroy, S.K., Halford, A.S., 2018, Fuels guide and database for intact and invaded big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata) ecological sites—User manual: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series Report 1048, p. 9, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1048

This remote area along the southern Idaho-Oregon border was affected by the 2015 Soda Fire, which burned nearly 400 square miles of sagebrush habitat important to many species of wildlife, as well as federal and private ranchlands. The USGS, in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, is leading a first of its kind study on the efficacy of certain post-fire