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Forest Service launches Web-based forest threats viewing tool

12-18-2007 · EurekAlert!

The Forest Service's Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center recently launched its forest threats summary viewer, a tool that will provide images, threat distribution maps, additional forestry contact information, and brief descriptions about forest threats throughout the eastern US. EFETAC partnered with the University of North Carolina Asheville's National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center to develop the tool, which is available on EFETAC's Web site, www.forestthreats.org.

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