The 2020 revision of Iowa’s Forest Action Plan is a comprehensive look at trees and forests across the state including in-depth assessments of past and present forest health, urban forestry, fire management, private lands management, forest productivity, and future conditions. The Forest Action Plan contains a set of strategic goals and strategies aimed at maximizing forest health and productivity, strategically growing Iowa’s forests, and promoting the benefits of Iowa’s forest resource.
Iowa’s 2020 Forest Action Plan is formatted as a user-friendly, engaging, and highly detailed webpage which allows users to interact with data, view high-resolution GIS maps on a street level, and look at historical trends of data over the past decade. This Forest Action Plan is best viewed on a computer versus a mobile phone and is optimized for the Google Chrome browser, but can be viewed on any web browser.
This Forest Action Plan also serves as a requirement of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service for states applying for forestry-related federal funding.
