DC Forest Action Plan

The 2008 Farm Bill amended the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act (CFAA) to require states to complete a statewide assessment of forest resource conditions and a long-term statewide forest resource strategy. The DC State Forest Action Plan (SFAP) is a comprehensive roadmap for investing federal, District, and private resources into managing and maintaining the urban forest. The DC State Forest Action Plan (SFAP) is a comprehensive roadmap for investing federal, District, and private resources into managing and maintaining the urban forest. <div><br /></div><div>Washington DC has many tracts of continuous forested area, providing opportunities for diverse ecosystems including Rock Creek Park, Palisades Parkway, the C&amp;O Canal National Historical Park and Fort Dupont. Common DC wildlife includes bald eagles, bats, coyotes, deer, ducks, eastern box turtles, eastern cottontails, foxes, owls, woodchucks and more. </div><div><br /></div><div>Washington DC straddles two ecoregions, the Piedmont and the Southeast Plains ecoregion. The dominant native vegetation on most of the well-drained loamy soil of the Piedmont is deciduous forest, and the native vegetation for the Southeast Plains in the District is mostly hardwoods with some softwoods.</div>

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