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RPA Assessment Webinar Series: Change and Future
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 (2:00 PM - 3:00 PM) (EST)
Description
Evaluating the Change and Future of the U.S. Land Base with the RPA Assessment
SAF and the USDA Forest Service are hosting a webinar series that will review the results of the 2020 Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment. The RPA Assessment is a legislatively mandated, recurring assessment of the past trends, current status, and projected 50-year futures of renewable resources across all forests and rangelands in the United States. For almost 50 years, the RPA Assessment has been used to support policy and land management decision making, and has enabled the U.S. Forest Service and other organizations to incorporate both socioeconomic and climatic change into land management.
The RPA Assessment summarizes current forest and rangeland conditions and trends on all ownerships; identifies economic, social, and biophysical drivers of change; and projects the availability and condition of renewable resources 50 years into the future. The RPA Assessment provides trends and projections for the U.S. land base, disturbance agents, forest resources including forest carbon, forest product markets, rangeland resources, water resources, wildlife and fish, and outdoor recreation, examining the effects of socioeconomic and climatic change on these resources. The 2020 RPA Assessment, published in July 2023, was the sixth assessment released in response to the Forest and Rangelands Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–378; 16 U.S.C. 1600, et seq., as amended).
The webinar series will consist of eight webinars running from January 15 through February 7, 2025, from 2-3PM Eastern time. The ninth webinar will be on February 11, 2025, from 1:30-3PM Eastern time. The first eight webinars will each focus on a different resource area covered by the 2020 RPA Assessment, while the ninth webinar will offer an expert panel discussion on the value and uses of the RPA Assessment.
If you would like to register for the full webinar series, please click here. Otherwise, you can register for each session individually by clicking on their respective links below.
Please note that you will need to register for a free SAF account in order to participate in these live webinars or view the recordings. Continuing education credits will be offered for each webinar.
This webinar will review results from the Land Resources Chapter of the 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment and highlight an example of this information being applied to support policy or management decisions.
LIVE on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET
FREE - Register to Access
1.0 Category 1 CFE
January 15, 2025 at 2:00 pm ET
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