Vital Statistics for Northern Research Station

• 591 employees, including 135 scientists
• 24 field locations, including Baltimore, Chicago
  (Evanston), and New York City
• 14 research work units
• 23 experimental forests encompassing a range of
  climate, soil, and vegetation types
• Forest inventory and monitoring for 24 states
• Largest free-air climate change experiment
  (Aspen FACE) in the world
• Only Forest Service primary quarantine
  laboratory in the continental U.S. used for
  studying invasive species.
  
• Only experimental forest principally used for
  peatland research
  
• A below-ground observatory (rhizotron) for
  studying undisturbed forest soils and belowground
  storage of carbon
  
• 2 Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) sites,
  part of the National Science Foundation network
  for long-term, comparative study of ecosystems
  
• Longest running experiments in forest
  sustainability
  

For more information contact

Debra J.S. Dietzman
Director, Communications & Science Delivery
USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

(651) 649-5031