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# Restoration

## Restoration Hot Topics Carousel

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### Restoring, enhancing, and maintaining ecosystems...

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## Restore, Enhance, and Maintain

Restoration means creating and maintaining healthy, resilient forests capable of delivering all the benefits that people get from them: clean air and water, carbon sequestration, habitat for native fish and wildlife, forest products, opportunities for outdoor recreation, and more. When we restore our Nation’s forests, we create jobs in rural communities and benefit the environment at the same time.

Climate change, catastrophic wildfire, bark beetle infestation, invasive species, record droughts, and other stressors threaten the health of our forest and  watersheds, and the people that rely on them. With our valuable state,  tribal, local government, and private partners we are working hard to increase  the rate of restoration in the face of these mounting challenges. We use an  all-lands approach, because we know that problems do not stop at forest  boundaries, and we work every day to restore the ecological integrity our  forests need to be healthy now and into the future.

Explore the links to the left to see how we are restoring  public lands by implementing programs, supporting communities, utilizing  frameworks, and mitigating threats.

## Get involved!

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## Additional Resources

        - Check out a  new  report from the Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration  highlighting  research and case studies with a variety of approaches to restoration,  including the USDA Forest Service.
        - Check out the results of the  2016 Collaborative Restoration Workshop , which brought together over 300 restoration practitioners to share the latest innovations and best practices in collaborative restoration on and around National Forest System land.
        - Read the Forest Service Ecosystem Restoration Policy in the Forest Service Manual (FSM) 2020 .
        - Read the 2015 report on the Forest Service accelerated restoration efforts:  From Accelerating Restoration to Creating and Maintaining Resilient Landscapes and Communities Across the Nation  (PDF, 18.1 MB).
        - Read  the original 2012 accelerated restoration report:  Increasing  the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation on our National Forests  (PDF, 5.9 MB).
        - Read  Ecosystem  Restoration: A Framework for Restoring and Maintaining the National Forests and  Grasslands (January 6, 2006)  (PDF, 2.39 MB), a foundational report, with  recommendations that initiated the agency’s approach to restoration.

## Restoration

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              - CFLR Program                    - CFLR Program Home
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              - Tribal Forest Protection Act                    - 638 Project Authority 
              - Integrated Resource Restoration                    - Integrated Resource Restoration Home
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              - Aquatic Organism Passage                    - Aquatic Organism Passage Home
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              - Legacy Roads and Trails                    - Legacy Roads and Trails Home
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              - Watershed Restoration Program                    - Watershed Restoration Home
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              - Stewardship Contracting                    - Stewardship Contracting Home
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## Contact Us

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