Soil

Program Leader:
Randy Davis

The National Soils Program Leader assists field specialists in attaining the Chief's soil priorities and managing resources from a healthy ecosystem perspective.

The program focus is on soil productivity, sustainability, and inventories.

Long Term Soil Productivity. Long-term monitoring and periodic sampling of soils provide information to adjust management practices that ensure the continued productivity of National Forest System lands. 

Forest Service Long Term Soil Productivity Brochure. Long Term Soil Productivity Research: A National Program in Sustaining Forest Ecosystems.

Forest Service Articles on Sustainability.  Articles: A Rationale For Forest Service Involvement In Sustainable Development; Sustainable Forest Management Questions; Criteria And Indicators For Sustainable Forest Management;   An Approach to Working with Sustainability; A Discussion of Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management 

Soil Inventories.  Soil scientists collect, analyze and map basic soils and landscape information so that they can accurately assess land capability and suitability and evaluate impacts of natural disturbances and planned management activities.