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Do It Yourself: Expert Help for Improving Bobwhite Habitat on Your Land

November 01, 2016 Justin Folks, Biologist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Virginia

If you’re looking to save money around the house, you can find hundreds of helpful videos on a wide variety of “do it yourself” repair and remodeling projects. Social media and other online networking tools can put you in touch with experts to answer your questions along the way. Well, wildlife...

Conservation

Pennsylvania Landowners Helping Indiana Bat through 'Spooky' Declines

October 26, 2016 Molly Hippensteel, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Pennsylvania

When most people think of bats, images of dark caves, vampires and Halloween come to mind. But actually, bats get a bad rap, and we often don’t know how important they are for controlling insects, pollinating plants, dispersing seeds and improving biodiversity. Many of our nation’s bats are facing...

Conservation Forestry

Join the Bat Squad and Pull for Bats during Bat Week

October 24, 2016 Leah Anderson, Eastern Region, U.S. Forest Service

Bats have quite the list of positive effects in our world, from the billions of dollars they save in pesticides to natural pollination and seed spreading. Bats eat about one-half of their body weight in insects each night. We need bats. In honor of our furry, flying mammal friends, consider pulling...

Conservation Initiatives Forestry

Roundtable Isn't Your Typical CIG Project

October 20, 2016 Kari Cohen, USDA-NRCS

This isn’t your typical Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) project. There’s no university collecting and analyzing data, or ground-breaking technology being evaluated here. Nope. This one is a good, old-fashioned meeting. Why would a meeting be such an important CIG project? Because strategic...

Conservation

Five Ways Agroforestry Can Grow Forest Products and Benefit Your Land, Your Pockets & Wildlife

October 19, 2016 Jocelyn Benjamin, USDA-NRCS and Kate MacFarland, USDA National Agroforestry Center

Much of the beauty in American agricultural landscapes is complemented by the trees in those landscapes. We depend on these tree’s products every day–from the paper our children use in school, to many of the fruits we eat, the wood burning in our fireplaces, and the wildlife habitat created by those...

Conservation Forestry

Unique Conservation Partnership Helps Create Win-Win Situation

October 18, 2016 Ciji Taylor, Natural Resources Conservation Service

By keeping their grasslands intact, two Colorado ranches are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting vital wildlife habitat, all while earning additional revenue. It may seem too good to be true, but it is thanks to a unique partnership spearheaded by the Climate Action Reserve, one of...

Conservation

RCPP Benefits Longleaf Ecosystem in Alabama

October 14, 2016 Amelia Hines Dortch, NRCS Alabama and Ann Simonelli, The Conservation Fund

It takes time, patience and a committed partnership, but seeing thriving forests of longleaf pine trees return to Alabama’s Gulf Coast is well-worth the wait. Longleaf pine forests once dominated the American Southeast, stretching across 90 million acres. A stronghold of the region’s environment and...

Conservation

The Farmers Screen

October 13, 2016 Spencer Miller, NRCS Public Affairs Specialist

Nobody wants fish to get stuck in irrigation pipes. Not the public; not the farmers; especially not the fish. But with more than 70,000 irrigation diversions tapping into Oregon’s rivers and streams, the concern is real. Irrigation diversions channel stream water through a series of narrowing pipes...

Conservation

US Forest Service Helps Educate Students at World's Largest Conservation Event

October 13, 2016 Paul Robbins Jr. and Denise Adamic, Pacific Southwest Region, U.S. Forest Service

Approximately 180 middle and high school students joined Smokey Bear, U.S. Forest Service staff and a host of other conservation-focused professionals from around the world for Student Day at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center in Honolulu. The students were invited to learn about natural resources...

Conservation Initiatives Forestry

US Forest Service Celebrates Historic Preservation Milestone

October 12, 2016 Kathryn Sosbe, Office of Communication, and Leah Anderson, Eastern Region, U.S. Forest Service

It takes a special person to spend two weeks of hard-earned vacation time delicately slicing through layers of soil to unearth the past as part of an archeological dig or hand sawing logs for re-birth of a worn-down historical cabin. The U.S. Forest Service has a deep appreciation for the thousands...

Conservation Forestry
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