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Standardized soil monitoring protocol available in Spanish
Healthy forests depend on productive soils and sustaining their
productivity requires a sound soil disturbance monitoring
protocol. A team of USFS scientists met this challenge when they
developed and published the Soil Disturbance Monitoring
Protocol, and it is now available in Spanish. More » May 2013
GSDUpdate Newsletter The May 2013 issue of the GSDUpdate
newsletter (PDF - 2 MB) is titled "Ushering in a New Age of
Genetics to Restore Lands and Conserve Species." Plant genetic
information provides critical knowledge necessary to mitigate
the impacts of climate change through ecological restoration.
The first step in restoration is recognizing and delineating
genetic boundaries at different taxonomic and spatial
hierarchies (e.g., species, subspecies and populations). The
second step is an assessment of the genetic diversity found
within and among populations of a species. “For many of t