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Public Land Access and Changing Demographics in Hall County, Georgia

March 08, 2012 Reggie Woodruff, U.S. Forest Service

In one of the first of its kind studies in the South, a research social scientist with the Forest Service Southern Research Station recently examined Latino access to local public lands in Hall County, Ga. Census-track-based information from studies like this can help municipal and county planners...

Forestry

Investing in Opportunity in Indian Country

November 05, 2015 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

USDA celebrates National Native American Heritage Month in November with a blog series focused on USDA’s support of Tribal Nations and highlighting a number of our efforts throughout Indian Country and Alaska. Follow along on the USDA blog. Earlier today, I met with leaders from the 566 federally...

USDA Results Initiatives Rural Technology

A New USDA-Funded Center Boosts a Mississippi Community

March 25, 2011 Ken Stribling, Mississippi Public Information Coordinator

A new community center financed through USDA Rural Development’s Community Facilities program was the location of a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Canton, Mississippi last week.

Rural

Cooking Up a Delicious Meal with a Local Twist

May 19, 2011 Cordelia Fox, Public Affairs Director, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Western Region

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: Located in the one of the most fertile agricultural valleys on Earth is the town of Manteca, Calif. Surrounded by groves of almonds, cherries, olives and a host of other crops for as far as the eye can see, a group of students sought inspiration for First Lady...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Future Forest Service Leaders Learn About Agency History

March 14, 2012 Renee Lee, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Imagine men mounted on horses, armed with rifles and sidearms, patrolling millions of acres of public land. These men were typical U.S. Forest Service rangers over a century ago. This is how the Forest Service first approached forest management. Forest Service historian Dr. Lincoln Bramwell recently...

Forestry

Wildfires in All Seasons?

June 27, 2019 Deb Schweizer, USDA Forest Service, Fire Aviation and Management

In recent decades the number, severity and overall size of wildfires has increased across much of the U.S. In fact, the 2018 wildfire season in California recorded the largest fire in acres burned, most destructive fire in property loss and deadliest fires in the state’s history.

Forestry

It All Starts with a Seed

February 18, 2014 Fawad Shah, Director of the AMS Seed Regulatory and Testing Division

Believe it or not, food doesn’t come from the refrigerator or even the kitchen. It doesn’t even come from the grocery store or the farmer. All food—whether meat, grain, vegetable or fruit—owes its existence to seeds. Seeds are the backbone of human existence, providing us with the fundamental...

Food and Nutrition Trade

All That Glitters Is Not Gold ....

May 20, 2013 Lisa Peraino, Plant Health Safeguarding Specialist

In this case it is green, a brilliant emerald green, and it is chomping its way through America's forests. The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis, may look pretty, but it is killing our ash trees in our forests and backyards. This is Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week (May 19-25) and the...

Animals Plants

The Thousand-Acre Woods

December 31, 2012 Jamie Johnson, NRCS Kentucky

For Harlan County, Ky. landowners Jim and Joanne Corum, conservation is a way of life. For the Corums, making the choice to enroll their land in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)—one of the largest private-land conservation programs of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Conservation

All Hands on Deck!

October 12, 2010 Audrey Rowe, Deputy Administrator for Special Nutrition Programs USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service

It was all hands on deck at the 3 rd Annual Faith, Families & Schools Conference held in Cromwell, Connecticut. I was extremely pleased to see many of my state colleagues working together in such an important effort. I participated as the keynote speaker and was introduced by George A. Coleman...

Food and Nutrition