The Forest Service Roadmap is a response to the USDA's 2010-2015 Strategic Plan, available here.
The Roadmap "identifies Forest Service priorities in responding to and implementing related direction in USDA's Strategic Plan" which describes major program policies. These policies include ensuring that national forests and private working lands are "conserved, restored and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing" water resources. For the full text of the "National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change," click here.
The Forest Service has also created a scorecard rating system for use by all national forests and grasslands to "gauge the success of efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change." All national forests and grasslands will submit annual reports on their progress toward compliance by 2015. For the Performance Scorecard, click here.
To read the USDA press release, click here.
Posted: 07/20/2010
