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Celebrating Grey Towers' Golden Anniversary

September 19, 2013 Deidra L. McGee, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

A beautiful, blue stone mansion with its slate roof and turrets, known as Grey Towers, in Milford, Pa. has been a sanctuary for visitors from around the world to learn about conservation and natural resources. Fifty years ago on Sept. 24, 1963, President John F. Kennedy dedicated the Grey Towers...

Forestry

Forest Service Reaches Latinos through Legacy Program

September 19, 2013 Kathryn Sosbe, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

Roughly a decade ago, Tamberly Conway impulsively agreed to leave Key West, Fla., with a friend to serve as crew members on a 47-foot sailboat with a captain they barely knew. But somewhere between Key West and Guatemala, she began reevaluating her decision. They got off the boat in Guatemala and...

Forestry

The Essentials of Food and Agriculture - in Charts and Maps

September 17, 2013 Dr. Catherine Woteki, USDA’s Chief Scientist and Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics

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 USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. With the abundance of news and information on the food and agriculture sector, sometimes it is helpful to take a step back...

Food and Nutrition Research and Science

Our Forests and Climate Change

September 12, 2013 Robert Bonnie, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment and Anne Castle, Assistant Secretary for Water & Science at the Department of the Interior

Cross posted from the White House Council on Environmental Quality blog: Americans know the importance of forests to our communities and our economy. They provide jobs and recreational opportunities, filter our air and water, and make up essential habitat for wildlife and natural resources. But...

Forestry

USDA Researchers Working Together to Conserve Our Nation's Resources

September 11, 2013 Tara T. Weaver-Missick, Chief, Information Products and Services Branch, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Information Staff

USDA researchers are working together to protect and conserve our beautiful nation and all of its majestic natural resources for generations to come. As part of USDA’s Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP), more than 60 USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are working...

Conservation

Forest Service Launches New Wildland Fire Website

August 12, 2013 Keith Riggs, Office of Communication, US Forest Service

This blog is part of a series from the U.S. Forest Service on its wildland firefighting program to increase awareness about when and how the agency suppresses fires, to provide insights into the lives of those fighting fires, and to explain some of the cutting-edge research underway on fire behavior...

Forestry

Mudding On National Forests Is Illegal and Destructive

July 17, 2013 Shannon O’Brien, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

Mudders, take note: It is against the law to tear up forest roads and meadows for fun, and the legal and financial consequences can be steep. Tearing up high-country meadows with four-wheel-drive and off-road vehicles destroys wildlife habitat and ecosystems. During a recent investigation, Forest...

Forestry

'We Remember Them Every Day'

May 24, 2013 Kathryn Sosbe, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

They are fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, and sisters and brothers. They served in remote corners of the forests and grasslands, helped lost recreationists find their way and arrested people who were violating the law. They were our friends and colleagues who lost their lives in the line of...

Forestry

Rural Champion Helps Tribal Farmers with Development and Land Management

August 29, 2011 Talishia Sears, Web Communications Intern, USDA

Cross posted from the White House Rural Champions of Change website: Ross Racine is the Executive Director of Intertribal Agriculture Council. He assumed those duties in January 2001. He served as the IAC Natural Resources Director beginning in 1991, and as the IAC Director of Programs since 1999.

Conservation Initiatives Forestry Animals Plants Rural

Endangered Birds Benefit from Wetlands Reserve Program

July 20, 2010

By Ron Morton, Assistant State Public Affairs Specialist, Athens, Georgia In the 1930s, a rural Georgia wetland was drained to help control the spread of malaria. As the land dried, water-loving wildlife like the endangered wood stork had to find a new home or perish. Eventually, the land became dry...

Conservation
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