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Restoring Native White and Red Pine Plant Communities in Minnesota

July 20, 2011 Julie MacSwain, NRCS Minnesota

Rieber Paulson knew part of his 40-acre forest in Northern Minnesota needed to be harvested. He also had a vision of what the area should eventually look like.

Conservation Forestry

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service Helps Virginia Ag Exporters Thrive in Asia

July 20, 2011 Karoline S. Newell, Foreign Agricultural Service Public Affairs Specialist

Helping American farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses gain and maintain access to international markets is one of the most important roles of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

Forestry Trade

US Forest Service Finds that Forests Play Huge Role in Reducing Carbon and Higher Global Temps

July 14, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

Forests absorb carbon like a giant sponge into what scientists call a carbon sink. This fact is well known throughout the scientific community. However, what scientists weren’t sure of until now is the amount of carbon forests can store. For years scientists knew a large amount of carbon was somehow...

Forestry

New Guide to Managing Invasive Plants in the South

July 12, 2011 Teresa Jackson, Public Affairs Specialist, Forest Service Southern Research Station

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. Nonnative plants have hitchhiked their way into flower beds, gardens, and yards of landowners in the South for decades...

Forestry Research and Science

US Forest Service Helps Young Adults Bring Awareness to National Forests Though a Cross-Country Adventure

July 07, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

The original slogan of the trekking group GreenXC read: Share a Ride, Tell a Story, Save a Park. Now they added and a National Forest (as in the U.S. Forest Service). This is because these young folks (all under 30), embarking on this bold transnational ride-share journey that departs July 27 th...

Forestry

US Forest Service Research of Black Fingers of Death Fungus May Lessen the Intensity of Wildland Fires

June 29, 2011 Robert Hudson Westover, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Forest Service

The long battle to mitigate and potentially eliminate cheatgrass, one of the American West’s most menacing invasive weeds, has just taken a positive step forward. U.S. Forest Service research, conducted by ecologist Susan Meyer, has demonstrated in field trials that the fungal pathogen known...

Forestry Research and Science

Faces of the Forest Celebrates David Ferrell

June 24, 2011 Kathryn Sosbe, U.S. Forest Service Office of Communication

David Ferrell seems to rebound from setbacks with a vengeance. During his first semester of college, his mother fell ill and he had to drop out to help take care of her and his four younger siblings. Back home, Ferrell met Charles Minor, a local Virginia man who would become a lifelong influence and...

Forestry

Alaskan Tlingit Elder Leaves Long-Lasting Legacy

June 24, 2011 Deidra L. McGee, Forest Service Public Affairs Manager

The Forest Service fondly remembers the contributions of Dr. Walter A. Soboleff, a centenarian deeply revered and Tlingit elder, who died last month at the age of 102. Located in Alaska, the Tlingit are a Native society that developed a complex hunter-gatherer culture in the temperate rainforest of...

Forestry

Recovery Act Gives Picturesque Alaskan Visitor Center a Boost

June 23, 2011 By Deidra L. McGee, Forest Service Public Affairs Manager

The Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center located on the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska is a site to see for many tourists. This recently renovated Center is a popular cruise ship destination giving a boost to the local economy. Tourism spending in the Juneau, Alaska area is expected to...

Forestry

USDA Forest Service Helping to take Sting out of Bugs

June 21, 2011 Reggie Woodruff, Forest Service Public Affairs

How do you turn biting, stinging, pantry raiding, picnic ruining pests into pollinating, irrigating, aerating, fertilizing, ecosystem balancing helpers? … By educating as many people as possible about the role of bugs in the environment. One of the responsibilities of the U.S. Forest Service is to...

Forestry