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Forest importance to water supply: The US Forest Service’s Forests to Faucets Project represents one approach to ecosystem service assessment. Watersheds are ranked in terms of both forest cover and the estimated number of people who rely on them for drinking water. This highlights the water filtration services that forests provide in different landscapes.

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Forest above-ground biomass: The Woods Hole Research Center’s National Biomass and Carbon Stock Dataset for the year 2000 represents an important component of carbon sequestration by Appalachian forests. The spatial distribution of this ecosystem service is influenced over time by drivers such as surface mining, urbanization, climate change, and forest growth.

A student collecting stream insects: Each year the Toes in the Toe Watershed Discovery event brings 5th-grade students from North Carolina’s Yancey and Mitchell Counties out to a river in their community. On the banks of the river they rotate through a variety of educational stations focused on stream health and the importance of river. Stations include art, farming, energy, fish, and stream macroinvertebrates.Because the watershed is home to the endangered Appalachian elktoe mussel, the Fish & Wildlife Service helped create the event and continues to help students explore the North and South Toe rivers in search of stream insects, mollusks, and other animals.